Career
He was once thought to have flourished around 1200, but his dates have been pushed back. Moniot wrote nine surviving pieces: three pastourelles, one chanson de rencontre, one chanson de la malmariée, and four enigmatic rotrouenges that are not of the grand chant variety. Throughout, his work represents a blurring of the traditional boundaries between genres.
One modern scholar, J. Frappier, has gone so far as to identify in him a new conception of courtly love: une courtoisie embourgeoisée (a bourgeoisie courtliness).
Moniot represents a "low style" or "less refined lyricism". His themes, both lyric and musical, are light in tone.
These melodies were popular nonetheless: Moniot reused one and four of them have later contrafacta.
