Biography
More poems by this troubadour remain than by any other practitioner of the art, nearly double the next largest surviving corpus. Of the eighty-nine poems attributed to Riquier, forty-eight are still extant and were set both as vers and as cansos. Roughly seventeen of the twenty vers follow bar form, while fifteen of the twenty-five cansos appear through-composed or fashioned as lais. Remarkably few, if any, of the surviving works rely on contrafactum; each poem therefore carries its own distinct melody rather than borrowing an existing tune for new verses. Monody dominates both the vers and the cansos. Riquier is widely regarded as the final troubadour. He served Amalrich IV, Alfonso X, King of Castile, and Henry II, Count of Rodez.
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