Notions of: oral literature; galician-portuguese language; medieval songs; poetic lyricism; courtly love; major song genres (Cantiga de Amigo, Cantiga de Escárnio e Maldizer, e Cantiga de Amor).

Brief thematic and formal approach to "Cantiga de Amigo"  and "Cantiga de Escárnio e Maldizer".

Reading of, and discussion about, the following troubadour songs:“Song for a Sleeping Lover”; “Song for a Sleepless Night”; “Seven Songs for a Beloved in Vigo”; “Song for an Unarriving Lover”; “Song to a Learned Abbess”; “Song for an Ugly Lady”, in: 113 Galician-Portuguese Troubadour Poems. Trad. Richard Zenith. Manchester, Carcanet Press, 1995. 

Listening to the first of the "Seven Songs for a Beloved in Vigo" (Martin Codax): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRFyGDTaHD0 .