Life of Trouvere, Poet and Musician Adam de la Halle essays

Life of Trouvere, Poet and Musician Adam de la Halle essays The French-born, 13th century-era trouvre [sic] (meaning, in English, troubadour); poet; court musician and composer; and founder of early French secular theater Adam de la Halle, is best known as a an original and innovative medieval composer of chansons (songs); rondeau (rondos) ballet, and other music, much of it for the new French secular theater (which Halle himself founded) of that period (Adam de la Halle, Encyclopedia Britannica Online). In his lifetime, Adam de la Halle was perhaps better known in his own time by the jname Adam le Bossu, which means in English (approximately): Adam the Hunchback. The hump in Halles upper back was a birth defect, which caused Halle, all his life, to appear slightly stooped in his posture; and to be noticeably if not extremely hunch-backed (Adam de la Halle, Encyclopedia Britannica Online). Halle was born around 1237, in Arras, France, a city located in the Picardy region of northern France (Arras, France). Within this essay, I shall disc uss some of Adam de la Halles major artistic accomplishments:, e.g., within the 13th century French secular theater he founded; in poetry and musical composition, and will also explore various other highlights and key events of his life. According to the article Adam de la Halle (Wikipedia), Halles father, Henri de le Hale, one of the city of Arrass notables, intended that his son join the church. However, Adam de la Halle himself did not ever in fact do so. Obviously, he much preferred an active, even peripatetic life filled with artistic creativity (and quite secular creativity, at that). Nowhere is this medieval French musical artists essentially non-religious, personal orientation better reflected than within his creative works, especially the music and poems Halle composed for the French secular theater he founded. In this same ...