medieval singers

Did the best medieval singers sound at all like modern lay-clerks, for example?

Gauchesca is related with payador's singing, being the payador a modern version of the illiterate medieval singers.

The logical extension of this approach is to propose (as I did in 1987) that medieval singers regarded an a cappella performance as ideal for their most serious and worthwhile songs the High Style lyrics of the troubadours and trouvères.

And like most ensembles that take both a practical and historical interest in music of distant eras, they admit that there is a great deal of guesswork in what they do, since there is not an entirely accurate way to establish how medieval singers sounded.