Peire d'Ussel or d'Uisel (Pèire d'Ussèl in modern Occitan; fl. Occitan ( IPA BrE: /ˈɒksɪtn/ AmE: /ˈɑksəˌtɑn/ known also as Lenga d'òc or Langue d'oc (native name occitan c. 1200) was a Limousin troubadour, the middle of three brothers, castellans of the castle of Ussel-sur-Sarzonne, northeast of Ventadorn. Limousin ( Occitan: Lemosin) is a former Province of France around the city of Limoges in central France. A troubadour ( IPA:, originally) was a composer and performer of Occitan Lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100&ndash1350 A castellan was the Governor or caretaker of a Castle or Keep. Ussel is a commune of the Corrèze department in central France. Moustier-Ventadour is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France. His elder brother was Eble and his younger Gui, and he also had a cousin named Elias; all four were troubadours. Eble or Ebles d'Ussel (also d'Ussèl or d'Uisel; fl c 1200 was a Limousin Troubadour, the eldest of three brothers Castellans Gui d'Ussel, d'Ussèl, or d'Uisel (fl 1195&ndash1209 was a turn-of-the-thirteenth-century Troubadour of the Limousin. Elias or Elyas d'Ussel or d'Uisel (fl c 1200 was a Limousin Troubadour, the cousin of the three brothers Eble, Peire [1]
According to Gui's vida, Peire descanted his relatives’ songs. Vida is the usual term for a brief prose biography written in Occitan, of a Troubadour or Trobairitz. Descant or Discant can refer to several different things in music depending on the period in question etymologically the word means a voice ( cantus) [2] This should not be understood to imply that Peire was only a musician. [3] One cobla addressed to Gui exists under his name. A cobla is a Stanza in Occitan Lyric poetry, the artform of the Troubadours. [3] The complete works of the four relations of Ussel, including Eble, were first compiled in one volume by J. Audiau as Les poésies des quatre troubadours d'Ussel (Paris, Delagrave, 1922). They are all available online at trobar.org.
Notes
- ^ Aubrey, Elizabeth. The Music of the Troubadours (Indiana University Press, 1996), p. 16. ISBN 0 253 21389 4.
- ^ The Vidas of the Troubadours, ed. and trans. Margarita Egan (New York: Garland, 1984), p. 44. ISBN 0 8240 9437 9.
- ^ a b Perrin, Robert H. "Descant and Troubadour Melodies: A Problem in Terms." Journal of the American Musicological Society, 16:3, (Autumn, 1963), pp. 313–324.
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