Raoul de Beauvais ('' fl.'' mid-13th century) was a

trouvère ''Trouvère'' (, ), sometimes spelled ''trouveur'' (, ), is the Northern French ('' langue d'oïl'') form of the '' langue d'oc'' (Occitan) word ''trobador'', the precursor of the modern French word ''troubadour''. ''Trouvère'' refers to poet ...

from northeast of

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. His period of activity is estimated based on his works being clumped with those of other mid-13th-century trouvères in the chansonniers. Six songs are attributed to him, with three also being (probably wrongly) attributed to

Jehan Erart Jehan Erart (or Erars) (''c''.1200/10–1258/9) was a trouvère from Arras, particularly noted for his favouring the ''pastourelle'' genre. He has left behind eleven ''pastourelles'', ten ''grand chants'', and one '' serventois''. Erart's pres ...

. They exhibit a great variety of poetical and musical forms. All six songs contain refrains. Both ' and ' (also attributed to Erart) are ''

pastourelle The pastourelle (; also ''pastorelle'', ''pastorella'', or ''pastorita'' is a typically Old French lyric form concerning the romance of a shepherdess. In most of the early pastourelles, the poet knight meets a shepherdess who bests him in a batt ...

s''. Especially interesting is the contrast between the stanza and refrain in ' (also attributed to Erart). Each four-line stanza contains three open cadences (every line but the last), but the three-line refrain uses closed cadences. Melodically, however, both the opening lines of the stanzas and of the refrain are similar. Besides these three pieces, Raoul also wrote: *' *' *' (also attributed to Erart)

References

*Falck, Robert and John Haines
"Raoul de Beauvais."
''Grove Music Online''. ''Oxford Music Online''. Accessed 20 September 2008. {{Authority control Trouvères 13th-century French people Male classical composers