Adam de la Halle

[ a-dahn duh la al ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

Adam de la Halle, commonly called the Hunchback of Arras.

From Project Gutenberg

But as the moralities were sometimes decidedly tedious plays, though by no means brief, they were varied by the introduction of farces, of which the jeux already mentioned were the early germ, and of which L’Avocat Patelin, dated by some about 1465 and certainly about 200 years subsequent to Adam de la Halle, is the most famous example.

From Project Gutenberg

Its origin was not illiterate, but in Adam de la Halle's time and country poets who had some letters and poets who had none did not stand so widely apart.

From Project Gutenberg

Greatest Hits of the Medieval Women's Choir: The choir has chosen favorite pieces from its past 19 seasons, including music by Hildegard of Bingen, Perotin, Lionel Power and Adam de la Halle, as well as settings of medieval texts by director Margriet Tindemans and Seattle composer Peter Seibert.

From Seattle Times

For this festival Wilfred Pelletier, of the Metropolitan Opera Company, had arranged the production of the first known comic opera, Le Jen de Robin et Marion, written by Adam de la Halle 700 years ago, in the century of the troubadours.

From Time Magazine Archive