Estampie

Old French Estampie and altokzitanisch Estampida ( with variants estempida, Stampida ) was the name of a popular at the Trouvères and troubadours since the second half of the 12th century courtly dance genre of the song and related purely instrumental pieces, and was in tracts of 14-15. Century sometimes also used for a type of music without reference to these medieval Estampien.

The name derives from gothic Stampjan View, " Stomp ", that probably means " mashed Song ", " mashed dance ", and found in the following period as Italian stampita or istanpitta, German stampenie or stampania, Dutch stampenie and English stamp or staump in other European countries spread, while the encounters in the middle Latin form stantipes in word formation is unclear and apparently from " stare " (stand) and " pes " ( foot ) is composed. In modern times, the French form " Estampie " has prevailed ( with the plural " Estampie " or Germanized " Estampien " ) as the common name, refers to the in music and literature not specifically the northern French, but generally the medieval Estampie will.

The Estampie as a medieval dance song is a song mehrstrophiges, characterized by a straight metric alternating long and short verses within each stanza. The strophic structure itself also varies from verse to verse ( ungleichstrophiger construction), at least in the old French Trouvères, which is why it has been thought to derive from the Latin sequence, while the strophic structure can remain the same for the altokzitanischen troubadours ( gleichstrophiger construction).

The chronology and tradition of the 6 and 19 altokzitanischen Old French Estampien does not allow very clear conclusion as to whether the genre emerged first in the Trouvères or at the troubadours, but tends to research in the majority with F. Gennrich the adoption of French origin to.

The most famous Occitan specimen of the genus, Kalendas maias of Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, one in the final verse, referred to as " Estampida " sechstrophiges ( gleichstrophiges ) song, which also features a melody has been handed down, was subsequently provided with a Razo, with the emergence of this song anecdotal embellishment, but at the core tells plausible. Thus wrote Raimbaut the song on the Italian court of the Marquis Boniface of Montferrat I. († 1207 ), having previously been two minstrels traveled from France present a Estampie on Fidel there heard ( " dos Joglars de Franza ... violaven una Stampida " ). That does not necessarily say something about the origin of the genus or the direction of their innerormanischen transfers, but corresponds to the prevailing impression of the research that the Estampie only secondarily, won their trobadoresken trains through adaptation northern French models.