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noun - a satirical medieval song or poem

SIRVENTES - The sirventes or serventes (Old Occitan [siventes]), sometimes translated as "service song", was a genre of Old Occitan lyric poetry practiced by the...

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The sirventes or serventes (Old Occitan [siventes]), sometimes translated as "service song", was a genre of Old Occitan lyric poetry practiced by the troubadours. * The name comes from sirvent ("serviceman"), from whose perspective the song is allegedly written. * Sirventes usually (possibly, always) took the form of parodies, borrowing the melody, metrical structure and often even the rhymes of a well-known piece to address a controversial subject, often a current event. The original piece was usually a canso, but there are sirventes written as contrafacta of (at least) sestinas and pastorelas.They were always opinionated, being either highly complimentary or, more often, oozing with vitriol; however, these features are not unique to the sirventes, so a piece can be positively identified as one only if its nature is explicitly stated in the text (which it often is) or the original piece it is based on has been preserved (which is also often the case: for a parody to work, it had to targe

Sirventes description

The sirventes or serventes (Old Occitan [siventes]), sometimes translated as "service song", was a genre of Old Occitan lyric poetry practiced by the troubadours.
* The name comes from sirvent ("serviceman"), from whose perspective the song is allegedly written.
* Sirventes usually (possibly, always) took the form of parodies, borrowing the melody, metrical structure and often even the rhymes of a well-known piece to address a controversial subject, often a current event. The original piece was usually a canso, but there are sirventes written as contrafacta of (at least) sestinas and pastorelas.They were always opinionated, being either highly complimentary or, more often, oozing with vitriol; however, these features are not unique to the sirventes, so a piece can be positively identified as one only if its nature is explicitly stated in the text (which it often is) or the original piece it is based on has been preserved (which is also often the case: for a parody to work, it had to targe

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