Troubadours probably helped to create chivalry. Their
stories were so loved that the knights seemed eager to live up to the image
they created. The troubadours made it up and the knights made it real.
These musicians would go from town to town, playing love
songs. They might also play drums, harps, and bagpipes, which were all popular
instruments of the times.
Troubadours created and memorized their own music. If
they heard a good son, they memorized it and performed it. Credit was not
given to the composer of a piece they were playing. The church taught that God
would be unhappy if composers took credit for their work.
But, during medieval times, only religious
music was written down and
saved. Secular music was not. The music of the troubadours is lost
forever. But their legacy lives on. Thanks to the troubadours, knowledge and
development of the code
of chivalry was spread, and modern manners were born.
