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ADAM (or ADAN) DE LE HALE (died c. 1288)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 171 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . Adam had been destined for the See also:church, but renounced this intention, and married a certain See also:Marie, who figures in many of his songs, rondeaux, motets and jeux-partis . Afterwards he joined the See also:household of See also:Robert II., See also:count of See also:Artois; and then was attached to See also:Charles of See also:Anjou, See also:brother of Charles IX., whose fortunes he followed in See also:Egypt, See also:Syria, See also:Palestine and See also:Italy . At the See also:court of Charles, after he became See also:king of See also:Naples, he wrote his Jeu de See also:Robin et See also:Marion, the most famous of his See also:works . He died between 1285 and 1288 . Adam's shorter pieces are accompanied by music, of which a171 transcript in See also:modern notation, with the See also:original See also:score, is given in Coussemaker's edition . His Jeu de Robin et Marion is cited as the earliest French See also:play with music on a See also:secular subject . The See also:pastoral, which tells how Marion resisted the See also:knight, and remained faithful to Robert the shepherd, is based on an old chanson, Robin m'aime, Robin m'a . It consists of See also:dialogue varied by refrains already current in popular See also:song .

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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