Few poems have survived from the Consistori's contests, preserved in chansonniers with other troubadour songs.

Typical subjects of troubadour song were war, chivalry and courtly love.

The three young people sing troubadour songs to each other.

Sivan Perwer is a Kurdish singer who carries an ancient tradition of wandering troubadour songs.

Her evocations of the troubadour songs, with medieval modal harmony and fragments of elegiac tunes, are marvelous.

To hear him in those other troubadour songs of long ago (or, in Chinese terms, just yesterday) would be a treat.

According to scholar Ardis Butterfield, courtly love is "the air which many genres of troubadour song breathe."

But there seems to be no record of any sustained secular drama stitched together from troubadour songs and acted out with costumes and settings.

New cultural importance and splendor was brought to the monastery in this period, as evidenced by its extensive archive of troubadour songs from this era.

The texts of troubadour songs deal mainly with themes of chivalry and courtly love.