Medieval Europe 814-1450: Music - Research Article from Arts and Humanities Through the Eras

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 84 pages of information about Medieval Europe 814-1450.

Medieval Europe 814-1450: Music - Research Article from Arts and Humanities Through the Eras

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 84 pages of information about Medieval Europe 814-1450.
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c. 1240–c. 1285

Performer
Poet
Composer

The Last of the TrouvÈres.

Adam de la Halle (c. 1240–c. 1285) is considered to be the last of the trouvères, the poet-musicians of northern France who specialized in writing poems and songs of courtly love. He was born in Arras in northern France (Picardy) and later probably studied in Paris. Also known as "Adam le Bossu" (bossu = hunchback), he is known for having written one of the earliest recorded secular dramas in French, a 1,099-line satiric play (apparently intended for performance at a local festival) that ridicules character traits of some of the citizens of Arras. Manuscripts of this work include music since songs were a part of the play, which had little plot but was full of proverbs and puns. Sometime after 1276, Adam entered into the service of Robert II, the count of Artois...

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