troubadours

Cultural  

1. Traveling poet-musicians who flourished in southern Europe during the twelfth century. They wrote songs about chivalry and love.

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Example Sentences

A wily, rambling record that demonstrated a clear debt to such longhair redneck troubadours as Jerry Jeff Walker, “Down to Earth” didn’t find an audience.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2023

“Here’s the thing — we’re descended, singer-songwriters, from troubadours in the Middle Ages,” Mr. Crosby told the San Luis Obispo Tribune in 2017.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023

How many times did "Gilmore Girls" have a show, a tiny village with not one but multiple troubadours and Miss Patty's prolific dance studio?

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2022

The original trovadores were migrant troubadours who also dabbled in bolero and bufo, a kind of satirical musical theater, gradually incorporating Afro-Cuban rhythms.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022

The revolutionary element he introduced into the sacred music he wrote at Notre-Dame was something he’d clearly learnt from the troubadours, who had in turn picked it up from Spain: rhythm.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall