Adam de la Halle
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Another celebrated name of these minstrels was Adam de la Halle, of Arras in Picardy—1240-1286.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
He was a good natural melodist, as the examples in Coussemaker's "Adam de la Halle" show.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
The style of Adam de la Halle varies from the coarsest satire to the most graceful tenderness.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
De Julleville2099 puts Adam de la Halle as the first comic writer in France, in point of time.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
At Arras, where Jacques Bretel and Adam de la Halle, the hunchback, were eminent in song, it had its latest moments of splendour.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund
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