Songs of the Women Trouveres Author:Eglal Doss-Quinby, Joan Tasker Grimbert, Wendy Pfeffer, Elizabeth Aubrey This anthology brings together the works of women poet-composers, or trouveres, in northern France in the 12th and 13th centuries. It includes the Old French texts of 75 compositions, extant music for 18 monophonic songs and 19 polyphonic motets, and an introduction.