Just a quick note to mention that I recently purchased William Paden’s “An Introduction To Old Occitan”. If anyone else here is looking for material for studying that language I heartily recommend this book. Its approach is a bit unorthodox, but I can see that studies in Occitan have improved quite a lot since I first studied the language. Paden’s book includes a CD with spoken and sung examples from the troubadour repertoire, but I haven’t listened to it yet. I’m excited by this book, I’ve been studying old Provencal with nothing but Levy’s little dictionary, Pound’s notes, and an edition of Arnaut Daniel with Italian translations. Looking at the other available study aids available from Amazon I was pleased to find so much new material. It’s a great time for language study. 
I second that recommendation. I don’t think there’s any book that even approaches it, at least for English speakers. The Handbook of the Troubadors, Akehurst and Davis, is also good to have around.
I managed to find a 1940s edition of the Vidas and Razos, which makes for easy reading practice. The free section of Google Books is surprisingly well-populated with collections of Occitan verse (though usually identified as Provencal). Searching on the phrase “lo mon gaug” will get you started.
Oh. You will also want to know about these: Rialto, Troubadors.
Thank you, the Rialto page is new to me, it looks like an excellent resource. Btw, I just received “An Introduction To Old Provencal Versification” by Frank Chambers, a good in-depth study of the art, but not an anthology.
The Akehurst/Davis Handbook was already in my Amazon cart, I guess I’ll proceed to the checkout.
If you don’t already know about these music CDs:
“Dante And The Troubadours”, Sequentia, DHM (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)
“Le Fou Sur Le Pont”, Joel Cohen And Camerata Mediterrenea, Erato
“Troubadours And Trouveres”, Studio Der Fruehen Musik, Telefunken Alte Werke
Indeed. I just started learning Akkadian from A Manual of Akkadian, and I have Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs waiting until I’m more or less done with my current textbooks. I’m also planning on buying Hayes’s A Manual of Sumerian Grammar and Texts and possibly (if I can find it) Thomsen’s The Sumerian Language: An Introduction to Its History and Grammatical Structure (it’s kind of expensive). And I’d like to find a good Sanskrit book as well.
But for now, I’m focusing on Latin, Greek, and Akkadian.