Provencal influence in the Spanish-Portuguese Cantiga
Provencal influence in the Spanish-Portuguese cantiga The article is devoted to cantiga of Galician-Portuguese troubadours. Cantiga is a medieval song genre, formed under the influence of Provencal troubadours’ creative work. This effect was caused by service of Provencal musicians at the Catalan and Castilian kings’ courts. Troubadours from Catalonia, Aragon, Galicia were noticed in Spain along with migrants, they were of humble and high background. The authors mention three main (de amigo, de amor, de escarnio maldecir) and some of less common genre varieties of cantiga. Provencal impact was mostly manifested in the cantigas de amor, cantigas de escarnio maldecir, cantigas de seguir, and in such kinds as tenzyn, pranto, descordo, pastorela, lai, alba. Cantiga de amigo is probably originated from the Spanish romance. Supposedly cantigas were created by contrafactum, in reliance on the Provencal and Spanish folk melodies. A process of adaptation of Provencal genre models is noted in Spanish song culture.