{"id":71,"date":"2015-05-27T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/musicx15xmaster\/?post_type=chapter&p=71"},"modified":"2015-06-16T18:28:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T18:28:19","slug":"beatriz-countess-of-dia-e","status":"web-only","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/odessa-musicapp-medievaltomodern\/chapter\/beatriz-countess-of-dia-e\/","title":{"raw":"Beatriz, Countess of Dia","rendered":"Beatriz, Countess of Dia"},"content":{"raw":"Our listening example from the troubadour tradition comes from the most famous of the female troubadors (trobairitz<\/em>), Beatriz of Dia. Much uncertainty surrounds the historical records of the troubadors, but here is some brief information\u00a0to help you get a sense of her place in the world of medieval secular music.\r\n

Introduction<\/h2>\r\nThe Comtessa de Dia<\/b>,\u00a0probably named Beatritz<\/b> or Beatriz<\/b> (fl. c. 1175), was a trobairitz (female troubadour).\r\n\r\nShe is only known as the comtessa de Dia<\/i> in contemporary documents, but was almost certainly named Beatriz and likely the daughter of Count Isoard II of Di\u00e1 (a town northeast of Montelimar in southern France). According to her vida<\/i>, she was married to William of Poitiers, but was in love with and sang about Raimbaut of Orange (1146-1173).\u00a0It has been hypothesised that she was in fact married to Guillem's son, Ademar de Peiteus, whose wife's name was Philippa de Fay, and that her real lover was Raimbaut de Vaqueiras.\r\n\r\nBeatrice's poems were often set to the music of a flute. Five of her works survive, including 4 cansos and 1 tenson.\u00a0Scholars have debated whether or not Comtessa authored Amics, en greu consirier,<\/i> a tenso typically attributed to Raimbaut d'Aurenga. One reason for this is due to the similarities between this composition and her own Estat ai en greu consirier.<\/i> A second reason references the words in her vida,<\/i> Et enamoret se d'En Rambaut d' Ashley, e fez de lui mantas bonas cansos<\/i>\u00a0(and she fell in love with Sir Raimbaut d'Aurenga, and made about him many good cansos)<\/i>.\r\n\r\nHer song A chantar m'er de so qu'eu no volria<\/i> in the Occitan language is the only canso<\/i> by a trobairitz<\/i> to survive with its music intact.\u00a0The music to A chantar<\/i> is found only in Le manuscript di roi,<\/i> a collection of songs copied around 1270 for Charles of Anjou, the brother of Louis IX.\r\n\r\nHer extant poems are:\r\n