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See also:ADAM (or ADAN) DE LE See also:HALE (died c. 1288)
, See also:French See also:trouvere, was See also:born at See also:Arras
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His patronymic is generally modernized to La See also:Halle, and he was commonly, known to his contemporaries as See also:Adam d'Arras or Adam le See also:Bossu, sometimes simply as Le Bossu d'Arras
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His See also:father, See also:Henri de le See also:Hale, was a well-known See also:citizen of Arras, and Adam studied See also:grammar, See also:theology and See also:music at the Cistercian See also:abbey of Vaucelles, near See also:Cambrai
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Father and son had their See also:share in the See also:civil discords in Arras, and for a See also:short See also:time took See also:refuge in See also:Douai
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Adam had been destined for the See also: The melodies to which these are set have, the, See also:character of folk-music, and are more spontaneous and melodious than the more elaborate music of his songs and motets . A modern See also:adaptation, by See also:Julien Tiersot, was played at Arras by a See also:company from the See also:Paris See also:Opera Comique on the occasion of a festival in 1896 in See also:honour of Adam de le Hale . His other play, Le jeu Adan or Le jeu de la Feuillee (c . 1262), is a satirical See also:drama in which he introduces himself, his father and the citizens of Arras with their peculiarities . His works include a Conga, or satirical farewell to the See also:city of Arras, and an unfinished chanson de geste in honour of Charles of Anjou, Le roi de Sicile, begun in 1282; another short piece, Le jeu du pelerin, is sometimes attributed to him . The only MS. which contains the whole of Adam's See also:work is the La Valliere MS . (No . 25,566) in ,the Bibliotheque Nationale; Paris, dating from the latter See also:half of the 13th See also:century . Many of his pieces are also contained in See also:Douce MS . 308, in the Bodleian Library, See also:Oxford . His Euvres completes (1872) were edited by E. de Coussemaker . See also an See also:article by Paulin Paris in the Histoire litteraire de la See also:France (vol. xx. pp . 638-675) ; G . Raynaud, Recueil See also:des motets See also:francais des XIIe et XIIIe siecles (1882); Canchons et Partures des Adan delle Hale (Halle, 1900), a See also:critical edition by See also:Rudolf Berger; an edition of Adam's two jeux in Monmerque and See also:Michel's See also:Theatre frangais au moyen dge (1842) ; E . See also:Langlois, Le jeu de Robin et Marion (1896), with a See also:translation in modern French ; . A . Guesnon, La See also:Satire a Arras au XIIIe siecle (1900); and a full bibliography of works on the subject in No . 6 of the Bibliotheque de See also:bibliographies critiques, by Henri See also:Guy . |
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