Gérard Le Vot (born 5 January 1948Notice d'autorité personne
on the site of the BnF.) is a French

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

, a specialist in the medieval period, and professor at the

Lumière University Lyon 2 Lumière University Lyon 2 () is one of the three universities that comprise the current University of Lyon system, having splintered from an older university of the same name, and is primarily based on two campuses in Lyon itself. It has a total ...

. Also a

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orchestras or ...

ist and singer, he was awarded with the following prizes for his recordings of songs by

troubadour A troubadour (, ; ) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). Since the word ''troubadour'' is etymologically masculine, a female equivalent is usually called a ''trobairitz''. The tr ...

s and

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 po ...

s: * 1981: Grand Prix of the

Académie Charles-Cros An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

. * 1987: Prize Paul Zumthor. He is also the author of – ''Vocabulaire de la musique médiévale'' Minerve, 1993, 2001, 255 p. – ''L'Oeuvre lyrique de Blondel de Nesle. Mélodies.'' Edited with Avner Bahat éd. Champion, Paris, 1996, 222 p. – ''Troubadours and Trouvères Songs, An Anthology of Poems and Melodies'', Edited with Margaret Switten & Sam N. Rosenberg, Garland, New-York, 1998, 378 p. – ''Bruit et Musique'', Textes recueillis et présentés par Gérard Le Vot, Actes de la journée d’étude du 23 janvier 2008, éd. Gérard Streletski, Publications du département de musicologie, Lyon, 2009, 326 p. – ''Poétique du rock, oralité, voix et tumultes'', Minerve, 2017, 203 p. – ''Les Troubadours, les chansons et leur musique (XIIe-XIIIe siècles)'', Minerve, 2019, 393 p. – ''Chansons d’amour des troubadours. Une anthologie texte et musique'', Minerve, Paris, 2022, 263 p.

References

External links

Gérard Le Vot, bibliography
on

Actes Sud Actes Sud is a French publishing house based in Arles. It was founded in 1978 by author Hubert Nyssen. By 2013, the company, then headed by Nyssen's daughter, Françoise Nyssen, had an annual turnover of 60 million euros and 60 staff members. ...

Discography
on Discogs
Gérard Le Vot

Gérard Le Vot, Troubadours et Trouvères
on Bayardmusic.com
"Dolmen" song for rain, Gérard L E VOT
on YouTube
Harp music Relaxing & Strong, "Fearless", Gérard LE VOT
on YouTube {{DEFAULTSORT:Le Vot, Gerard 20th-century French musicologists 21st-century French musicologists French classical harpists French scholars 1948 births Living people