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Adam de la Halle
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Adam de la Halle (also known as Adam le Bossu (Adam the Hunchback) 1237?-1288) was a French-born trouvère, poet and musician, who broke with the long-established tradition of writing liturgical poetry and music to be an early founder of secular theater in France. Adam's other nicknames, "le Bossu d'Arras" and "Adam d'Arras", suggest that he came from Arras, France. Two of his works, Le Jeu de Robin et Marion and Le Jeu de la feuillée are considered to be forerunners of the comic opera. His other best-known work is La Chanson du roi de Sicile. His father, Henri de le Hale, a well-known Citizen of Arras, and Adam studied grammar, theology, and music at the Cistercian abbey of Vaucelles, near Cambrai. Father and son had their share in the civil discords in Arras, and for a short time took refuge in Douai. Adam had been destined for the church, but renounced this intention, and married a certain Marie, who figures in many of his songs, rondeaux, motets and jeux-partis. Afterwards he joined the household of Robert II, count of Artois; and then was attached to Charles of Anjou, brother of Charles IX, whose fortunes he followed in Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and Italy. At the court of Charles, after he became king of Naples, he wrote his Jeu de Robin et Marion, the most famous of his works. Adam's shorter pieces are accompanied by music, of which a transcript in modern notation, with the original score, is given in Coussemaker's edition. His Jeu de Robin et Marion is cited as the ea
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Mout me fu grief li departir / Robin m'aime / Portare
1,0142Mout me fu grief li departir / Robin m'aime, Robin m'a / Portare
8953De ma dame vient
7994Scene II: Bergeronnete douche baisselete (Robin, Marion)
7295J'os bien a m'amie parler
7266Scene VI: A Dieu (Adam / Super)
6897Pilgrim’s Prologue (after Li jus du Pelerin)
6298Scene I: Marion is happily minding her own business…Robins m’aime (Marion)
6159Le jeu de Robin et de Marion (The Play of Robin and Marion): Scene 1: Marion is happily minding her own business…Robins m'aime (Marion)
56710Madrigal (Kom, du ljuva hjartevan) (arr. C. Schreiber): Kom, du ljuva hjartevan (Come you sweetest maid!) (arr. for male chorus)
511albums
ADAM DE LA HALLE: Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion
Adam De La Halle: Jeu De Robin Et De Marion (Le)
Adam de la Halle : Le jeu de Robin et Marion
Traditional Swedish Songs of Spring & Summer
Music of the Gothic Era
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Medieval & Gregorian Chant
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Essential Masses, Vol. 1
Le Jeu de Robin et Marion
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Traditional Swedish Songs Of Spring And Summer
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Discover the History of Classical Music - The Medieval Period
Music From the Time of the Templars
Adam de La Halle: Le doux regard de ma dame (For dobro)