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Adam de la Halle

American  
[a-dahn duh la al] / a dɑ̃ də la ˈal /

noun

  1. c1240–87, French troubadour: a composer.


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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 W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews

Two other poets, Adam de la Halle and Rutebœuf, are far more prominent in literary history.

From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury

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 George Saintsbury

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 W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews

This also contains Théophile, Saint Nicolas, and the plays of Adam de la Halle.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

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