How To Use Troubadour In A Sentence
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A handsome full-length portrait had been presented to the poet by the municipal authorities of Agen; and a letter from M. Lamartine, framed, above the chimney-piece, avowed the writer's belief that the Troubadour of the Garonne was the Homer of the modern world.
Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
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He was dressed in attire befitting the troubadour in his beanie and old comfortable shirt.
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Among the Troubadours, this species of musical dialogue took the form of the tenson, or contention.
Woman's Work in Music
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But any reader might be pardoned for not at once divining that the double rillet of minstrelsy, on page 37, was the Troubadour and the Trouvere, nor for refusing to read pages 155 and 156 without a tolerable outfit of information upon the historical points and personages there catalogued.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864
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William Elliott Whitmore has been called a folksinger, a roots troubadour and an heir to Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen.
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An omnivorous troubadour, he roves from Manchester libraries to Colombian villages to salvage musical traditions – with recordings that move from Berber beats to the raptures of a raga, from the thrilling stillness of an Armenian lament to the sprightliness of an Elizabethan galliard.
In praise of … Jordi Savall | Editorial
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PF, in the course of his troubadouresque wanderings, has washed up for the night here in Peekskill, where he has brought to my attention the remarkable Douglas Young translations from Greek into Scots, in particular his translation of The Frogs which he called The Puddocks by Aristophanes:Aeschylus will heave his verses, ruit and word, and gar them flee, breenge, and skail the monie stourbaths whaur he rowes his poesie.
Languagehat.com: BRAW AND WITTY.
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This is a great piece of work from a veteran troubadour, and should be a prominent part of your music collection.
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It casts him as acoustic troubadour but aided by string arrangements and the odd blast of electricity.
The Sun
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Rounding out the cast are her sulky daughter, a prisoner called Garin and a court troubadour, all of whom are suspects when the count is stabbed through the heart.
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What unites them is a troubadour's gift for a lyric that has you listening attentively for the next line, often with a smile or a raised eyebrow, occasionally with alarm.
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He has the name and voice of a raddled troubadour chasing his dissolution around the American heartland.
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Jacques Brel, a Belgian, was one of the great modern troubadours in the French language.
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o 'faddling fictions as -- gestes of jongleurs, tales told by tramping troubadours, ballades of babbling braggarts, romances of roysterous rhymers, she (good gossip!) as I say, having hearkened to and perused the works of such-like pelting, paltry prosers and poets wherein sweep of sword and lunge o' lance is accompted of worthier repute than the penning of dainty distich and pretty poesies pleasingly passionate.
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
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His brilliant, fluid landscape sketches in oils and watercolour were inspirational and he helped create a vogue for ‘troubadour’ subjects.
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The spirit of the Orient showed itself in the songs of the troubadours, and the _baudekin_, [428] the canopy of Bagdad, [429] became common in the churches of Italy.
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
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I had the great pleasure of meeting Stan recently - he is a terrific conversationalist, storyteller, poet, critic and troubadour.
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James McMurtry is an unusual singer-songwriter, a gentle, thoughtful troubadour who writes songs that unfold like short stories.
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Provenal literature in the medieval period consisted chiefly of the lyric poetry composed by the troubadours for the feudal courts of the Midi, northern Italy, and Spain.
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Bearded and flanked by a double bassist and a drummer he looks every inch the troubled, acoustic troubadour.
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Only the wealthy could afford elaborate tombs, commission altarpieces or frescos, or had the time and skills required to record the ballads sung by troubadours at court or peasants in the fields.
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Troubadours and minstrels used to be homeless buskers, driven from city to city (by baying mobs I hope) with the odd groat and a good bumming from Richard I being their only reward.
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As minstrels and troubadours spread his legend across England, the peasantry embraced Robin Hood and his band of outlaws as their heroes just as much as the nobility idealized King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table as their own.
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Bearded and flanked by a double bassist and a drummer he looks every inch the troubled, acoustic troubadour.
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The mercurial troubadour has forsaken 88 keys in favor of syncopated rhythms, turntables and a human beatbox.
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The presence of foreign musicians from the 12th century onwards is a sign that the music of the troubadours and the German Minnesinger was cultivated by the court.
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Mark Antony and Coriolanus and Francis the First, the plumed barons of the feudal days, and their embroidered and belaced ladies, with the whole merrie companie of pages, fools, troubadours and heralds, seem on the whole to have had fine times of it.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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This song is an example of the ballade, one of the formes fixes, song patterns favored by the troubadours and trouvères.
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Near the end of their set, their music mellowed considerably, going for more of a folky troubadour vibe.
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Loudon, Kate, Martha and Rufus are the bards of kith and kin, the troubadours of the consanguine.
Great dynasties of the world: The Wainwrights
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My merry troubadour knew of this tale for oft would he play for the high born of your country.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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The term buskers originates from an old French word for troubadours - minstrels, love singers or poets.
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Cimarron also was busy tuning his rebeck and trying over the melodies of the songs which Ranulph the troubadour had written for this little drama.
Masters of the Guild
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These new works are a bold push forward, and they show the artist entering into the world of storytelling in the manner of a heartsick troubadour.
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Sibyl watched as Lady Plymouth's private troubadour began to instinctively pluck strings of the viol.
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Provenal literature in the medieval period consisted chiefly of the lyric poetry composed by the troubadours for the feudal courts of the Midi, northern Italy, and Spain.
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The heavy rock singer turned folk troubadour continues to grow in popularity.
The Sun
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The interview has already been pushed back several times as the Canadian punkers scramble to finish soundcheck at the Troubadour club in L.A. before that night's gig.
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In saucy improvised couplets the troubadour called upon one and another to join the dancing, until before any one quite knew what was happening, the company in the lower hall was drawn into a winding lengthening line following the leaders in a sort of farandole.
Masters of the Guild
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News of what scholars call the most famous scandal of 12 th century France spread through contemporary Europe by word of mouth, in poetry, and in the songs of troubadours.
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Having explored different directions, most recently the doom-laden troubadour swathed in strings, he has clearly taken a look at his audience and decided to give them what they want.
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In defense of our approach, I would say only that ours can include the modern primitives, and also include Zen, Sufism, The Troubadours, western anarchism, cyberpunk, punk rock, cubism, Voltaire, ad infinitum.
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Reciters of epic poetry in the bardic tradition can loosely be described as minstrels, as can the instrumentalists who worked alongside the troubadours, trouvères, and Minnesinger.
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I allude especially to the monorhyme, Rim continuat or tirade monorime, whose monotonous simplicity was preferred by the Troubadours for threnodies.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Grier describes making the low-budget films, in which she often portrayed a tough but beautiful woman involved in a ludicrous plot, and also such noncommercial events as her 1974 night out with John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, and Peter Lawford, during which she was ejected from the Troubadour, an “in” spot at the time, though at least in the company of pop-culture royalty.
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Before his time, those kind of itinerant authors, called troubadours or romanciers, were a species of madmen who attracted the admiration of fools.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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Kuepper's a troubadour, a wandering minstrel who unpacks his swag at the Great Northern this Sunday, May 8.
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It's a little disconcerting hearing the wide-eyed troubadour so distraught, but if it's any consolation, the emotional intensity of his folksy confessionals and heartfelt power-pop nuggets have been jacked up considerably.
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An omnivorous troubadour, he roves from Manchester libraries to Colombian villages to salvage musical traditions – with recordings that move from Berber beats to the raptures of a raga, from the thrilling stillness of an Armenian lament to the sprightliness of an Elizabethan galliard.
In praise of … Jordi Savall | Editorial
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These new works are a bold push forward, and they show the artist entering into the world of storytelling in the manner of a heartsick troubadour.
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How far were troubadour love affairs all in the mind?
Words Of Love: Passionate Women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath
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That being said, the oral tradition within which troubadour song was devised and transmitted probably encouraged constant reinvention, and it is hard to believe that either melodies or accompaniments were immutably fixed.
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This song is an example of the ballade, one of the formes fixes, song patterns favored by the troubadours and trouvères and carried on by polyphonic song composers in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance.
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The term buskers originates from an old French word for troubadours - minstrels, love singers or poets.
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Tim saw himself as a troubadour, a poet singing from the heart.
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Therefore, it's no surprise that The Brightness, Mitchell's Righteous Babe debut, is infused with the restless, worldly perspective of a real troubadour.
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She has listened well to the tales the minstrels and jongleurs tell in private company, to the boasting of troubadours and the knights of the castle, and I care not to speculate on how this has come to pass.
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He also employs a troubadour who comes and entertains the peasants nightly in the village square, singing, juggling, and telling stories.
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King, powerful in all the craft of Troubadours and Jongleurs, is held in peculiar esteem for conducting mysteries, and other of those gamesome and delightful sports and processions with which our holy Church permits her graver ceremonies to be relieved and diversified, to the cheering of the hearts of all true children of religion.
Anne of Geierstein
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PF, in the course of his troubadouresque wanderings, has washed up for the night here in Peekskill, where he has brought to my attention the remarkable Douglas Young translations from Greek into Scots, in particular his translation of The Frogs which he called The Puddocks by Aristophanes:Aeschylus will heave his verses, ruit and word, and gar them flee, breenge, and skail the monie stourbaths whaur he rowes his poesie.
Languagehat.com: BRAW AND WITTY.
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Out on the sidewalk of Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz's main shopping street, the normal carnival of pedestrians, loiterers, court jesters, fools, and mendicant troubadours milled and mingled on a warm spring afternoon.
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In chantries unrehearsed we'd wow the votarists and serenade the friary to panting ecstasies while summoned to kingly chambers we branked the troubadours, turning the sovereign mind to heaven, the courtiers left speechless with neglect...
Strange Bedfellows
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A libertine and charming gadabout, he wooed women with the troubadour songs of Provencal, spending each year's 150 religious holidays sauntering through the Umbrian countryside on foot and horseback.
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When the troubadour appears, the two men confront each other and the troubadour reveals his true identity: he is Manrico, leader of the partisan rebel forces.
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In the 13 th century, French troubadours wrote love-thwarted tales in a poetry-prose mix.
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The bulky instrument had a very deep, mellow sound that the troubadour used to a good effect in her songs.
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We see scene after scene of the handsome, upbeat, stiff-spined troubadour singing truth to power and joyously quipping in period interviews.
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Jonathan Richman is a songwriter without compare, a true original in a sea of troubadour imitatees.
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The consistently amazing quality of the band is their ability to color experimental music and noise with more candor and emotional sophistication than most turtlenecked troubadours.