Adam de la Halle

[ a-dahn duh la al ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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Adam de la Halle, so far as our present information goes, has the credit of inventing two separate styles of such composition.

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Besides Rutebœuf the most characteristic figure of his class and time (about the middle of the 13th century) is Adam de la Halle.

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He was a good natural melodist, as the examples in Coussemaker's "Adam de la Halle" show.

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