trouvère
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Origin of trouvère
1785–95; < French; Old French troveor, equivalent to trov ( er ) to find, compose ( see trover) + -eor < Latin -ātor -ator
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And though in the lyric, the debt due to both troubadour and trouvère is unmistakable, it is equally unmistakable what mighty usury the minnesingers have paid for the capital they borrowed.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
A trouvère of the thirteenth century, named Robert de Blois, compiled a code of etiquette which he put in French verse under the title, Chastisement des Dames.
From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh
It is essentially a comic opera; but that a trouvère of the thirteenth century should by himself, so far as we can see, have founded comic opera is not a small thing.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
Lastly, Walther von der Vogelweide appears to have been actually a "working poet," as we may say—a trouvère, who sang his own poems as he wandered about, and whose surname was purely a decorative one.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
The first three poems are in French, of the well-known and by this time far from novel trouvère character, of which those of Thibaut of Champagne are the best specimens.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
Some productions of the trouvères may fairly be allowed an elevation of aim and of treatment entitling them to be called epic in character.
From Classic French Course in English by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
The darkness of the Middle Ages reached its midnight, and slowly the dawn arose,—musical with the chirping of innumerable trouvères and minnesingers.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 by Various
The Anglo-Norman trouvères rightly considered the Story of the Holy Grail the central point of interest of the Arthurian cycle, or the grand climax in the legend.
From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
The verse dialogues and débats, which both troubadours and trouvères had favoured, were in themselves incompletely dramatic.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
It was the trouvères who invented the Chansons de Geste already mentioned—songs of action; in other words, ballads.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
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