Moniot d'Arras

Moniot d'Arras (fl. 1213–1239) was a French composer and poet of the trouvère tradition.^[1] He was a monk ("Moniot" is a diminutive for monk) of the abbey of Arras in northern France; the area was at the time a center of trouvère activity, and his contemporaries included Adam de la Halle and Colin Muset.^[2] His songs were all monophonic in the tradition of pastoral romance and courtly love; he also wrote religious songs. About fifteen of his secular songs, and two religious songs, survive; his most famous song is "Ce fut en mai".^[3]

References

1. Moniot d'Arras Archived 2008-11-23 at the Wayback Machine
2. Entry, trouvere, in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
3. Denis Stephens, A History of Song (W. W. Norton & Company, 1970; ISBN 0-393-00536-4), p. 28