- Ot de Montcada
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Ot de Montcada was an early Catalan troubadour with no surviving work. Ot's work is known only from a reference in a sirventes of Guillem of Berguedan around 1175. By then he was considered old and out-dated. Guillem wrote his lyrics to the melody composed by Ot, who wrote it before the stone belltower at Vic was erected:
- Chanson ai comensada
- que sera loing cantada
- en est son vieil antic
- que fetz N'Ot de Moncada
- ans que peira pausada
- fos el clochier de Vic.
- Here commences a song
- that will long be sung
- in the old ancient tune
- that Sir Ot de Montcada composed
- before possessed of stones
- was the belltower of Vic.
It is possible that Ot was active before 1038, since in that year the cathedral of Vic was consecrated; it was considered aged in the mid-twelfth. This dating is uncertain, however, since Guillem may have meant no more than that Ot was very old.
References
- Riquer, Martín de (1964). Història de la Literatura Catalana, vol. 1. Barcelona: Edicions Ariel.
Categories:- Troubadours
- Catalan people
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