| 单词 | troubadour |
| 例句 | At least when it's asked by a troubadour. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Her bright voice fills my room like the music of a lute, and she is like a troubadour with her tales, though none are bawdy or bad. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The revolutionary element he introduced into the sacred music he wrote at Notre-Dame was something he’d clearly learnt from the troubadours, who had in turn picked it up from Spain: rhythm. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He makes saffron rice pudding, stirring patiently, pulling the pot from the fire with a troubadour’s timing. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “Has your Highness seen the Lady Viola tonight?” asked a gallant troubadour of the fairy queen who floated down the hall upon his arm. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them stands up, and I see that he's wearing the fancy sleeves of a troubadour, though they're caked with the dirt of the road. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z These songs were shaped by the poetic metre of their lyrics, and consequently most of the troubadour songs, even the sad ones, have a gentle, foot-tapping pulse. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z "And tomorrow?" the innkeeper asks the children, as the troubadours collect their instruments. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The troubadour phenomenon had been inspired by the example of professional singers in the courts of al-Andalus, Muslim Spain, which had its resplendent capital at Cordoba. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The track is “Holland,” by the indie troubadour Sufjan Stevens, and its drifting waltz tempo and bittersweet air feel perfectly in tune with Mr. Mehldau’s signature style, maybe even to a fault. Brad Mehldau Evolves in ‘10 Years Solo Live,’ a New Boxed Set 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z There was an idea of this troubadour plucking these strands and creating music. With 28,000 LEDs, It’s Lights! Lights! Lights! Action! 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z "In the old days," she says, "there were a lot of lone male troubadours but hardly any women." Never mind the birdlore: the new face of folk music 2013-01-27T16:59:01Z Snider’s no superstar, but he is a troubadour with a solid cult following and a good way with story songs. ‘Hard Luck Love Song’ Review: A Glossy Take on a Gritty Tune 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z It was a moment when ideology took a back seat to Milanés’s unparalleled talent as a troubadour of love, compelling everyone to reach for the sky. The Soaring Legacy of Pablo Milanés 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z The music’s the thing, obviously, but the essays, detailed notes on the songs and recording sessions, audio interviews, and replicas of the troubadour’s artwork and handwritten lyrics make this a terrific Guthrie starter kit. Top box sets, from the Beatles to Bill Withers 2012-12-10T16:42:00Z At the Echo, the handsome, once shaggy-headed troubadour had a clean haircut that made him look downright respectable, and his presentation was equally crisp. Ryley Walker explores a pastoral past with mesmerizing folk set at the Echo 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Along with his distinctive voice and disarming performance, the lyrical themes portray an authentic troubadour recording signs of difficult times with a gloomy nostalgia for bygone eras. December's best music from across the MAP 2012-12-19T10:00:00Z The 73-year-old troubadour and his seasoned, five-piece band were in fine form Friday night for the first of three concerts at the Paramount Theatre, performing to a near-capacity crowd spanning several generations. Bob Dylan and his band in fine form at Paramount 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z Otherwise, the movie floats along pleasantly enough for much of its 137 minutes, with nice period detail, such as a scene with a colorful band of troubadours. ‘They Say Nothing Stays the Same’ Review: Crossing a Modern River 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z But where Newman barbs his old-timey melodies with satirical lyrics, Mills sang mostly about the usual concerns of lovelorn troubadours, albeit in a conversational, almost stream-of-consciousness style that generally renounced or downplayed choruses. A casual blend of art-Americana from Blake Mills at the Hamilton These strolling troubadours create the senses-blurring element through which all the characters swim, and they’re the best thing in the show. | 'The Comedy of Errors': Giving Shakespeare His Sombrero and Kazoo 2011-03-18T11:00:00Z The cabaret scene in New York was dominated by solo acts and celebrities, but Mr. Iconis wanted something different — a sort of troupe of troubadours, most of them unknown. The Guy Behind ‘Be More Chill’ Is Keeping It in the Family 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Scottish troubadour Donovan isn’t usually associated with Halloween, or even any other holiday, but a spooky sense of poisonous foreboding imbues his “Season of the Witch.” Beyond 'Monster Mash': TIME Picks the Best Halloween Songs 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Backed by a full band, he skips between instruments and is nobody's idea of a static troubadour. David Ford 2010-07-13T20:45:00Z The singer here is another Oklahoma troubadour, and his topics include the price of love, the need for hope, the hazards of farm tractors and much more. Music Review: A winning set by John Fullbright 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z One of his troubadours murdered one of his housekeepers. The Library Fire That Ignited an Author’s Imagination 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Current signings range from schizoid punks Pulled Apart By Horses to acoustic troubadour Liam Finn as well as legendary Blur guitarist Graham Coxon. SXSW 2011: The British labels making it big in Austin 2011-03-19T02:30:28Z Springsteen, the quintessential working class rock ‘n’ roll troubadour, broke from both his white worker protagonists and his medium of “blues verses and gospel choruses,” as he often calls it, in the mid-’90s. Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," then and now 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z In fact, that glint in his eye suggests he's more than another laboratory-created mainstream troubadour, unless sharing his tequila with the crowd is another fiendish move to roughen up his image. Tom Odell – review 2013-03-04T18:44:20Z He was a self-invented troubadour from Minnesota on the brink of stardom. Suze Rotolo, a Face, With Bob Dylan, of ?60s Music, Is Dead at 67 2011-03-01T06:01:28Z Happily embedded within her politically leftist Jewish family, he was a long way from his working-class Oklahoma origins, though it would be far from the last place this peripatetic troubadour would live. Weekend Miser: ‘Bound for Glory’ to be Screened on Coney Island 2012-07-12T20:03:23Z To say that Banhart, a troubadour whose work coupling American experimental folk music with South American sounds has resulted in a number of key works, was relaxed at the Bowl is an understatement. Caetano Veloso gigs the Hollywood Bowl; Bird and Banhart offer support 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z But the troubadours and orchestrators inhabiting the L.A. drama “Lost Transmissions” are so inundated with and insulated by their life challenges that they’re as ashen as Siberian exiles. ‘Lost Transmissions’ Review: Fuel for the L.A. Music Scene 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z She's a true troubadour with a wide-world view and returns to Meany Hall at the University of Washington at 8 p.m. Chava Alberstein comes to Meany Hall 2011-12-07T21:25:10Z Mr. Hiatt, 61, has had no problem acclimating to the elder-statesman phase of his esteemed troubadour career, in which the blues always cohabited with country, folk and rock ’n’ roll. New Albums by Honeyblood, John Hiatt and the Fred Hersch Trio 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z A jazz clarinetist who reinvented himself as a singer-songwriter, Dalla nonetheless became one of Italy’s most beloved troubadours in the later decades of the 20th century. ‘For Lucio’ Review: The Voice of Italy for Four Decades 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z A Moore concert by Seattle accordion troubadour extraordinaire Jason Webley and two annual local music series, Hot Java Cool Jazz and More Music @ the Moore, are among the music events planned. Seinfeld, Merce Cunningham's company and Kronos all coming to Seattle 2011-05-11T20:19:04Z The performances convey the idea of the musician as an itinerant, a troubadour moving from town to town, soaking up the true spirit of America and its people. New band of the day – John Fullbright (No 1,471) 2013-03-14T16:01:50Z Their descendants date to the 1970s, when singer-songwriters ruled the pop charts, and also the 1930s, when timeless tunes came from an Oklahoma troubadour named Woody Guthrie. Music Review: A winning set by John Fullbright 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Landlady, the expansive pop-folk band led by Adam Schatz, is a familiar face in the Brooklyn jazz and rock scenes, and draws from the sonorous troubadour rock of the Band and Arcade Fire. Pop & Rock Listings for July 17-23 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Here the setting is the Caucasus, the mountainous region between Europe and Asia, peopled in the ballet by Cossacks, troubadours, women in Russian doll outfits, elves, nymphs and spirits. Guillaume Bart’s ‘La Source,’ From Paris Opera Ballet 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Eyes up here, everyone, look at this radical troubadour, handsome and lifelike as a Velasquez painting. Review | Dan Bejar is not here to comfort you 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Reed was once, yes, a wry urban troubadour – but that was decades ago. Lou Reed booed in Canada for free-improv set 2010-07-05T09:08:00Z The arrangement is key, and raises the song well above the usual acoustic troubadour fare. Josh Record (No 1,502) 2013-04-29T16:54:26Z “You read all the poets of the English language in chronological order, you learn Chinese, you learn enough Provençal to read the troubadours,” Weinberger paraphrased. The Unclassifiable Essays of Eliot Weinberger 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z "It was an ironic debunking of the myth of artists as carefree troubadours who don't concern themselves with business," says Ware. Forgive us our synths ? how 80s pop found favour again 2010-11-18T23:33:00Z Listening to his debut album, Pauper's Field, you can tell he's been dreaming of the drifting troubadour life ever since he was a kid. New band of the day ? No 831: Dylan LeBlanc 2010-07-22T16:03:00Z He may be a lone troubadour, but the maelstrom that is Roll of the Eye is more indebted to Sonic Youth than Jeff Buckley. Liam Finn ? review 2011-07-22T17:42:08Z The set is more sweet than it is wild, but it finds an effective middle ground between the multiplatinum troubadour and the modern country songstress. Billboard CD reviews: Christina Aguilera, Korn, Jewel 2010-07-02T21:49:00Z A rumpled troubadour, he sings pessimistic lyrics in sweet melodies sometimes reminiscent of Brian Wilson. Review: ‘Pandaemonium’ Gives Unhappiness a Light Touch 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z His nostalgia becomes blatantly solipsistic, for instance, when he looks at the rewards and public standing of the troubadour poets. Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z This free fair turns the park into a village from the Middle Ages, with jesters, jousters, troubadours, minstrels, wizards and all manner of knights and damsels. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 2-8 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z When I stepped into the room where medieval troubadours sang to Eleanor of Aquitaine in Poitiers, my first impulse was to shout. In the French city of Poitiers, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s influence is everywhere 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Not by coincidence, it’s an album centered on the guitar, Ms. Wilson’s primary nonvocal instrument, and the one that best evokes her troubadour side. New Music: Albums From Rick Ross, Cassandra Wilson and Ralph Peterson 2012-06-25T22:30:29Z Making a role debut as Manrico, the troubadour of the title, is a rite of passage for a tenor: Gwyn Hughes Jones emerged with honour here. Il Trovatore - review 2011-02-27T18:03:39Z Bob Dylan’s birthday attracted a new generation of troubadours to the park’s fountain. This Is the Summer the Youth Own New York 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z Without entirely leaving folk behind — he styled himself as a modern troubadour — he quickly produced “Sunshine Superman” and “Mellow Yellow,” “Epistle to Dippy” and “Wear Your Love Like Heaven.” Donovan to Enter Songwriters Hall of Fame 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Clad in a snazzy snakeskin jacket and carrying a guitar, Val Xavier steps into a small town’s mercantile like a handsome troubadour dropping by to serenade the locals. Review: A Lack of Passion Keeps This ‘Orpheus Descending’ Earthbound 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Even Michael Moore, the blue-collar troubadour who foresaw Trump’s path to victory, portrayed the president as a Hitler-like manqué in his most recent film, “Fahrenheit 11/9.” Alexandra Pelosi Plunges Into Trump Country 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Spears’s evocations of troubadours sometimes sound, intriguingly, like they have come by way of Ravel, or Britten, or Judy Collins. Risk-Taking New Opera Tells a Tragic 1950s Gay Love Story 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Yet after the troubadour left, the Pope's staff did, indeed, miraculously, begin to flower. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z Lewis, the 47-year-old indie artist whose country-rock troubadour style and evocative lyricism has earned her comparisons to songwriting greats from Nashville’s Music Row to Laurel Canyon, has suffered a lot of loss lately. Jenny Lewis Keeps Finding the Magic 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z Several albums later, Formell has been critically praised for invoking his native country’s troubadour tradition, which goes back to the 19th century and originated in Santiago. Romance and Romanticism in Valentine’s Day concerts 2013-02-07T23:24:23Z The 92-year-old troubadour is receiving a "Distinguished Service" award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Folk legend Pete Seeger honored by arts academy 2012-04-25T11:56:09Z With its plaintive winding melody and lyrics that picture an endless river of romantic sorrow, the song conjures the darker side of Southern California hedonism during the long-gone heyday of the Laurel Canyon troubadours. Music Review: J. D. Souther in Lincoln Center American Songbook - Review 2012-01-15T23:08:05Z Several stages hosted performances by jugglers, stilt walkers, troubadours and fiery dancers. Germany’s Christmas markets take yuletide spirit to another level 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z His troubadour look was, he discovered, “a wonderful way to attract girls.” Home Is Anywhere Jeremy Irons Drapes His Scarf 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z His dark hair is still longish, though not the lush mullet of his earlier years, and his brown eyes are on full alert, his thin mustache and goatee suggesting a troubadour musketeer. What happened to Michael McDermott? 2011-06-22T19:42:00Z The singer shifts her posture from melancholy troubadour to agitated riot grrrl, and tells him off. How beabadoobee’s “I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus” Reckons with a Rock Idol 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Back then, being a solo artist didn't mean you were strapped into a genre that means 'acoustic guitar troubadour'. David Ford: not just a singer-songwriter 2010-06-24T21:14:00Z As the Texas troubadour Townes van Zandt sang, "To live's to fly ..." Beam me up, Site festival: Conquistador heads for the rafters 2012-05-21T15:20:06Z Minnesota’s bluegrass troubadours Trampled by Turtles arrive June 27 with fellow animal-named Americana rockers Deer Tick. ZooTunes announces first five shows in summer concert series 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z At times, he was a mellow troubadour, strapping on an acoustic guitar and wailing in a scraped tone à la Wyclef Jean. Music Review: At S.O.B.?s, B.o.B.?s Multiple Personalities 2010-04-14T21:27:00Z Proving it on Thursday night, the slouching Philadelphia indie troubadour Alex G sang his sloppy, sentimental, frequently wonderful rock songs to the floor in a way that felt pouty, then transportational. SXSW 2015: When a music festival feels like an after-party 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z With these four takes complete, “Bringing It All Home” is wrapped up, and Dylan goes back on the road as the solo troubadour. Bob Dylan’s “electric trilogy” masterpieces: I played all 18 discs and 357 tracks. Here’s why you should 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z “But I also thought I heard the troubadours and the trouvères.” A Voice Where Romance and Dysfunction Meet 2011-04-29T18:00:32Z Thus the troubadour raises issues of interpretation, dissemination and perhaps even corruption that are ultimately the concerns of a creative artist. Past and Present, the Orpheus Myth Makes Us Rethink Music 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z This year, from California and New York to Germany and Italy, the man dubbed the "Dust Bowl troubadour" is being analyzed and fondly remembered at Guthrie centennial gatherings great and small. 100 years after singer Guthrie's birth, this land is his 2012-07-14T14:42:51Z And not just any Icelandic troubadour; a popular one. New band of the day (Ásgeir 1,553) 2013-07-15T15:17:37Z This Medicare-eligible Jersey Shore troubadour, comprising equal parts music and heart, still burns white-hot. Perspective | Bruce Springsteen turns the lights of Broadway back on. And the effect is electric. 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Tom Morello, the Rage Against the Machine guitarist who has become an Occupy troubadour, got a line about Occupy Wall Street into “Ease My Revolutionary Mind.” Woody Guthrie’s Star-Studded 100th Birthday Party 2012-10-15T16:43:47Z In order to set apart the diegetic music of the troubadour, she created a special mode that evokes medieval music. Past and Present, the Orpheus Myth Makes Us Rethink Music 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z This awkwardly adolescent comment could be a throwback to the late 1990s when Oberst emerged as a precocious, thin-skinned teenage troubadour. Bright Eyes ? review 2011-02-15T19:20:00Z "I'm such a fan of the '70s troubadour music," Owen said recently from the road on a tour stop in Nashville. Judith Owen connects with '70s troubadours on her new 'Ebb & Flow' 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Back then Ms. Wilson was a little too young to join that now-legendary circle of Laurel Canyon troubadours, but as the saying goes, “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” Rita Wilson at Café Carlyle 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z “Song One,” Kate Barker-Froyland’s anemic first feature, offers a wispy meditation on the healing properties of a pretty folk song — especially when sung by a shaggy-haired troubadour with bedroom eyes and a sensitive soul. Anne Hathaway Falls for a Crooner in ‘Song One’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z His rangy band, the Hurtin’ Albertans, sounds noticeably loose in the studio, especially in “Bible on the Dash,” a wry bit of advice offered side by side with the Texas troubadour Hayes Carll. Playlist: New Music by Rumer, Donald Vega, Keith Jarrett and Corb Lund 2012-08-10T13:59:29Z And for much of the last decade or so, he’s been a folkie acoustic-guitar-slinging troubadour, sometimes with a country twang, who’s a bit embarrassed that he once “Tried to Rock.” Lloyd Cole’s Dylan epiphany: “I thought that gentlemen of a certain age shouldn’t make certain records” 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The superstar author of This Side of Paradise, with his "sophomore face and troubadour heart", was so attractive, according to American journalist HL Mencken, that "he might have been called beautiful". Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell – review 2013-06-02T07:01:17Z As a modern troubadour, mining the social perspective of the chansons réalistes, Aznavour was the inheritor of a French tradition that can be traced back to the entertainment of the medieval jongleur. Remembering Charles Aznavour, the Last and Greatest Troubadour 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z "Marrying the introspection of the nocturnal stoner with the exploration of a troubadour frontiersman" – Matador press release. New band of the day ? No 961: Kurt Vile 2011-02-04T16:59:02Z It was a perfect choice because popular culture had already anointed the singer-songwriter “America’s troubadour.” ‘Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines: The Life and Music of James Taylor’ 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z A remarkable stroke of fate sent Jeff Buckley, then an aspiring young troubadour, to stay in a New York apartment that happened to contain a copy of “I’m Your Fan.” Books of The Times: ‘The Holy or the Broken’ by Alan Light 2012-12-09T22:49:21Z Donne was working with an old tradition, the Provencal Alba or dawn poem, that had been popular with the troubadour poets of the high middle ages, but the English poet adds his own twist. Poster poems: the sun 2013-06-07T13:28:26Z Jack Hardy, a folk singer and folk music promoter whose Greenwich Village recordings and songwriting workshops kept alive the neighborhood tradition of counterculture troubadours, died on Friday in Manhattan. Jack Hardy, Folk Singer and Keeper of the Tradition, Dies at 63 2011-03-13T04:45:04Z Then again, we're not as into raspy troubadours as they are over there, are we? New band of the day (Phillip Phillips No 1,488) 2013-04-09T16:06:00Z You never had the sense of listening to a troubadour who had traveled thousands of miles on foot over dirt roads. Music Review: Allan Harris Performs at the Metropolitan Room 2010-04-06T22:27:00Z The grizzled troubadour with the outlandish voice and even more outlandish mind continues to produce brilliant work. The week ahead: Arts and entertainment highlights for the week beginning Oct. 7 2012-10-03T22:12:05Z As he writes in "The Roadmender": "You level these cobbles / and there is, as a troubadour, / a block of brains I too / must open up per day." The Poems in Verse by Stéphane Mallarmé, translated by Peter Manson - review 2012-06-15T21:55:09Z He’s usually backed by a band, but on this night he started out alone, an acoustic troubadour in a fedora, fingerpicking his way through the vagabond blues of “King of California” and “Harlan County Line.” Concert review: Dave Alvin at City Winery 2012-08-22T06:22:00Z The Road pledges its troth to the troubadour's lifestyle. Frank Turner – review 2013-04-19T15:00:03Z This outstanding new country trio presents itself as a band of road-weary Texas troubadours. Janet Jackson hits the road — fourth time’s a charm? 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The work is alternately playful and somber, with a firm grounding in the austere medieval troubadour and plainsong traditions. Music Review: Stockhausen’s ‘Freude,’ by Chamber Music Society 2012-10-19T23:32:59Z Thrill to Dylan, a troubadour with a white-smeared face and a peacock feather in his wide-brimmed hat, as he electrifies and sometimes confuses audiences with his melodious musings. ‘Rolling Thunder’ Review: A New Ballad of Bob, Sung by Marty 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z The troubadours are played by the band, while Young plays the ominous “man in the black hat.” When Daryl Hannah, Neil Young and the son of Willie Nelson made a Netflix movie in three days 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z There are few paths less attractive in 2017 than that of guitar troubadour working in the pop mainstream. Harry Styles Fights the Spotlight on His Debut Solo Album 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Landlady, the expansive pop-folk band led by Adam Schatz, is a familiar face in the Brooklyn jazz and rock scenes, and draws from the wandering troubadour rock of the Band and Arcade Fire. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z But we still felt we were troubadours, very much a vocal group. You Must Hear This! The New Tweedy Brothers 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z He looked like an old-world troubadour heading into the night, passing entourages and a beggar holding the sign: "Bad ankles, Please help." Sound of the White Buffalo can be found between tenderness and a growl 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z The original trovadores were migrant troubadours who also dabbled in bolero and bufo, a kind of satirical musical theater, gradually incorporating Afro-Cuban rhythms. The Soaring Legacy of Pablo Milanés 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z On October 1st, Charles Aznavour, the world’s last and greatest troubadour, was found dead in the bath at his home in the small village of Mouriès, in southern France. Remembering Charles Aznavour, the Last and Greatest Troubadour 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z And, the first book is the story of the rise of a young, romantic troubadour and the second book is really a book about power. The peak of Sinatra’s power: “Every Sinatra performance was acting. His greatest performance was as himself” 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z In their gadding about Europe, medieval troubadours spread a wide variety of cultural styles, from Arabic to Celtic and everything in between. International music fest compares Latin, Asian sounds with Tambuco and Toshio Hosokawa 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z As for what this 20th century troubadour would sing, well, that was Dylan’s job. Bob Dylan’s First Musical Had a Devil of a Time 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z In true Hollywood fashion, Ms. Sherman-Palladino returned to her hometown, Los Angeles, and from her brief visit spun Stars Hollow — a charming New England small town with its own resident troubadour. Fans Flock to Town That Inspired ‘Gilmore Girls’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z In fact, it is the 23-year-old's avowed intention not just to avoid being regarded as a simpering troubadour, but to have his name become synonymous with the sound of a full band. New band of the day - Joe Banfi (No 1,426) 2013-01-08T16:10:44Z Local troubadours roam, happy to croon for a dollar. 36 Hours in Managua, Nicaragua 2012-09-13T17:39:57Z The title comes from a Provençal word meaning far away; the text is a poem attributed to the medieval troubadour Jaufré Rudel, one of the three characters in the story. Review: A Composer’s Mystical Music Gets the Space It Demands 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The dreamy L.A. troubadour brings songs from her outstanding new album “On the Line.” The best concerts of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Irish troubadours sing the old songs while guests eat with their hands and drink mead. 2010-01-08T15:09:00Z Photograph: Hannah Johnston/Getty Images "I wanted to give the impression of a troubadour or minstrel telling a tale," says Owens of the riff that takes up more than five of the album's 28 minutes. Christopher Owens on life after Girls 2013-02-01T14:00:00Z High on the wall of a brick building in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, a jaunty terra cotta troubadour forever plays his accordion and opens his mouth in wordless song. All the City’s a Stage 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z For those gigs he brought an electric group which later became known as The Band - but his then-new direction was greeted with anger by many fans who worshipped him as a politically engaged folk troubadour. Bob Dylan whips up tempest in return to 1966 London venue 2013-11-28T13:46:59Z A beloved portrait of a troubadour has become, well, a beloved troubadour. ‘Il Trovatore’ and ‘Fierrabras’ at Salzburg Festival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z This was about as true of the indie-rock bands as it was of the troubadours and banjo pickers who more directly embody the festival’s legacy. Critic’s Notebook: Newport Folk Festival, With Arlo Guthrie and Jackson Browne 2012-07-30T22:02:03Z Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music heritage, died Monday at the age of 94. Folk singer, activist Pete Seeger dies in NY 2014-01-28T07:32:53Z Many specialties of his — songs of the troubadours, say — require as much intuition as scholarship. Jordi Savall Evokes the Past by Hearing Its Music 2010-04-30T20:35:00Z Reunited grunge rockers Soundgarden will close the festival on Sunday opposite Canadian alternative troubadours Arcade Fire. Lady Gaga to Green Day, Lollapalooza boasts motley cast 2010-08-04T21:22:00Z The audience walk around, following the actors as they move between the stages, with Bragg at the center of the action as the troubadour chorus who links the scenes together with his songs. Billy Bragg sings about English identity in play 2010-04-26T18:56:00Z His five-week “Songbook” tour, which reaches Town Hall this week, is his first such venture as a troubadour, armed only with an acoustic guitar. The Week Ahead: April 10 ? 16 2011-04-08T13:57:40Z In 1999, also to raise money for a relative’s health care, the family sold the studio’s mural set by Maxfield Parrish that depicted Renaissance troubadours and young revelers along a Tuscan loggia. This Century-Old Mural Was Rescued From a Whitney’s Stairwell 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Simple troubadour songs kept finding their way into the sublimely superimposed vocal lines of two-, three- and even four-voice motets. Music Review: Anonymous 4 at Corpus Christi Church 2013-05-13T21:59:59Z But among its charms, "This Land" contains an anecdote about a journey he made up to Seattle with fellow troubadour Pete Seeger. Seattle troupe brings back Woody Guthrie tribute, with marionettes and song 2012-09-19T17:56:03Z Occitan, the language of the troubadours, is greatly endangered as it slips from everyday use in Provence, Gascony and the Languedoc. Amazon backs down over Cornish-language children's book 2013-04-08T09:26:16Z It’s set in Provence in the medieval era of troubadours. Review: Mariinsky Ballet in ‘Raymonda,’ Searching About for a Perfect Suitor 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z He is still regarded as a pinnacle within the genre, a high-water mark for sad-sack troubadours. We Can’t Quit You, Hank Williams 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z For some of the rest of us, though, these are melody lines in the soundtracks of our souls, seared there in our youth by rock-and-roll troubadour Carole King. ‘Beautiful’ is one fine night 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z How many times did "Gilmore Girls" have a show, a tiny village with not one but multiple troubadours and Miss Patty's prolific dance studio? From “White Christmas” to GoFundMe: The plucky American fantasy of only needing to put on a show 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Instead, the roving folk troubadour made an album — “Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest,” released in June — that charted the growth of the familial roots he laid down following his 2014 wedding. The Week in Arts: An End to ‘The Affair’; A Lincoln Center Horror Show 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z While the jam-pop troubadours formed in Virginia, main man Matthews has called Seattle home for years, turning up at local charity gigs and holding court at the Gorge Amphitheatre every Labor Day weekend. Will Dave Matthews Band make the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? The case for and against the jam-pop troubadours 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Springsteen, the hardworking guy’s troubadour, performed at Hillary Clinton’s Philadelphia rally the night before the election. Donald Trump, Dante and the End of Your Elitist Tastes 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z But also a good-timing troubadour, a tireless showman, a shameless ham, a pro wrestler hyping his crowd, a televangelist with high blood pressure. When Garth Brooks sings, America still sings along 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Bands on tour carry the memory of itinerant troubadours and acrobats caravanning from town to town, performing on makeshift stages in the village square. What Happens When We Lose the Art That Brings Us Together? 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z This summer, Mr. Domingo plans to return to the Salzburg Festival to appear in Verdi’s “Il Trovatore,” an opera in which he used to memorably sing the title role of the heroic troubadour, Manrico. Plácido Domingo Defies the Gravity of Age 2014-03-07T15:00:03Z Prufrock is a miscast troubadour of the Edwardian drawing room who fails to raise his lute or his voice due to simple lack of courage. John Stammers's top 10 love poems 2011-02-09T10:26:17Z For instance the account of Thomas à Becket starts off with a lovely troubadour’s story about his parents, and how they came to be married. Remember Roger Mortimer 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Long before and the folk-inspired protest singers of the 1960s, there was Woody Guthrie, a troubadour of backwoods America who believed in "singing for the plain folks and getting tough with the rich folks". Woody Sez ? review 2011-01-19T18:17:40Z Mr. Denk played troubadour songs and excerpts from sacred works by several medieval composers, in his own arrangements. Review: Jeremy Denk and His Piano Take a 600-Year Tour 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z A promoter in Taiwan tried to introduce the gravel-voiced troubadour to China last year but said the Chinese government would not approve the shows. ArtsBeat: No Longer Tangled Up, Dylan Concerts Are Planned in China 2011-03-04T19:26:46Z He was the ringmaster of a sideshow of freaks, seductresses, brutes, and troubadours, and you were free to indulge or skip each act along the way. Federico Fellini: 5 Reasons He Still Matters 2013-10-31T17:35:27Z He played the flute at a level hard now to determine, but he became a proficient lutenist and something of a troubadour, who enjoyed performing at home and in social settings. 500 Years Later, the Reformation Is Still Creating Music 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Advertisement Adapted from a 13th-century troubadour’s tale, the story the angels tell centers on a wealthy landowner, the Protector, and his obedient younger wife, Agnès, whom he describes as his “property.” Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Jester, troubadour, agent provocateur, Serge Gainsbourg rhymed his way through life in a fog of Gitanes smoke, making music of every genre. Time Stands Still in Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris Lair 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z The original, which was recorded in 1931, is maybe the best example in the American songbook of a lone and lonesome troubadour externalizing unfathomable sorrow. Postscript: Gregg Allman, 1947-2017 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z At that time in the United States, the Chicano civil rights movement was blossoming, and mariachi musicians morphed from folksy troubadours to cultural heroes, “symbols of Mexican identity heightened here because of multiculturalism,” Sheehy added. Silenced by COVID, mariachi Mass returns to Tucson cathedral 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Or make like Garland Jeffreys, the Brooklyn troubadour, and run wild in the streets: “In the heat of the summer/ better call up the plumber/ and turn on the street pump/ to cool me off.” Summer Streets 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z To the sorceress/mother and the convict/charlatan are added a whole host of others, including the old crone Madame Rolland, with her “black book”; the troubadour family Leroux; and the Parisian witch Catherine Monvoisin. Black Death and the Black Arts: A Deadly Fictional Duo 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Echosmith might be the most earnest act to ever play Jammin Java, which is saying something for a venue that hosts more than its share of acoustic troubadours. Echosmith keeps it all in the family and all sincerely positive It's a disastrous partnership, the paucity of jokes in the troubadours' other songs making the one where they sing "bouncy, bouncy, bouncy" stick out like an unironic TV commercial. Edinburgh festival comedy endorsements are no laughing matter 2010-08-25T12:41:00Z The gathering’s lineup of seasoned participants always includes links to another cowboy tradition: the traveling troubadour, guitar slung over shoulder. At the Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Tall Tales, Resonant Rhymes 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z In a composer’s note, he describes his musical language as combining two disparate styles: American minimalism and the courtly, melismatic singing of medieval troubadours. Risk-Taking New Opera Tells a Tragic 1950s Gay Love Story 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z I don’t know how much attention the great Canadian troubadour paid to current events during his final days in this vale of tears. Leonard Cohen, Hillary Clinton and the future: Where does the Democratic Party go after this crushing defeat? 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Ed Sheeran, fresh from a No 3 single, was also on surprisingly early, but the likable acoustic troubadour proved immensely popular. Latitude festival - review 2011-07-17T15:36:16Z So many things are much like we remember them: Miss Patty’s ballet studio, the Sam Phillips “la la la”s on the soundtrack, the troubadour in the town square. Review: ‘Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life’ Revives a Snow Globe Town 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Allan, a California native who often plays down-home American rodeos and state fairs, is best known as a brooding troubadour who likes to pack an emotional punch. Country singer Gary Allan's new album gets label's early push 2013-01-23T21:49:56Z Pablo Dylan Bob Dylan's teenage grandson is entering the music business, not as a folk troubadour or even simply going electric – but as a rapper. Bob Dylan's grandson launches rap career 2011-07-25T09:56:03Z This new musical reaffirms the Bengsons’ status as troubadours of the pandemic, a distinction underlined last fall, when their “Keep Going Song” went viral on YouTube. Review | Give this folk rock duo 27 minutes. They’ll give you a musically heartbreaking world. 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z “I just go out and sing,” the troubadour says. Seattle’s Vince Mira brings his own flare to bolero music 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The ultimate globetrotting troubadour, Neruda exerts a powerful appeal for travellers. Poet's Pacific paradise: Pablo Neruda’s homes in Chile 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z What stops it being one of those raw and ragged troubadour discs and puts it in a pop class is Dullaghan's melodic sensibility and breathy vocals. New band of the day ? No 981: Liam Dullaghan 2011-03-08T17:00:11Z He must believe that each state is its own country, has its own spirit, and he their wandering critic and troubadour. Amigo: John Sayles' Latest Declaration of Indie-pendence 2011-08-17T07:10:00Z Justin Bieber began his performance of the purely bubblegum-pop “Baby” strumming an acoustic guitar on a stool, looking like a 1970s folk troubadour, and later, dancing with his mentor Usher, channeled Michael Jackson. At the Grammys, Spectacles and Upsets 2011-02-14T05:54:53Z The group draws from the wandering troubadour rock of the Band and Arcade Fire in its openhearted second record, “Upright Behavior,” and headlines a holiday-themed party that also features Celestial Shore, Xenia Rubinos and more. Pop and Rock Listings for Dec. 5-Dec. 11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The band nods to the wandering troubadour fare of the Band and Arcade Fire, and releases the open-hearted full-length “Upright Behavior” on the day of this show. Pop & Rock Listings for July 11-17 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z She treats Mr. Dylan as a fellow troubadour and roustabout, inventing the rules while traveling along an endless road. Review: Joan Osborne Delivers No-Nonsense Dylan 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The troubadour of trauma for the twentysomethings’ recently christened “Generation X,” Cobain felt crushed between the edginess of his art and the machinery marketing his music. Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z For Dylan to be singing in the week when the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and many other cultural figures have again been silenced feels queasy, especially given his longstanding image as a troubadour of reform. Bob Dylan's political road ? and Sesame Street's 2011-04-10T18:30:00Z Costello refers to his troubadour heritage several times in our conversation; as he gets older, he likes the idea of himself as having inherited the family firm; it roots him. Elvis Costello 2010-10-16T23:04:00Z Namwali Serpell’s audacious first novel, “The Old Drift,” is narrated in small part by a swarm of mosquitoes — “thin troubadours, the bare ruinous choir” — who declare themselves “man’s greatest nemesis.” ‘The Old Drift’ Is a Dazzling Debut Spanning Four Generations 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z How about asking early music ensembles to perform troubadour songs? The Met Opera Is Struggling. How Can It Fill Those Empty Seats? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z He's better at playing the hip-hop troubadour, as he does on Look What I've Done, his latest single. New band of the day ? No 978: Maverick Sabre 2011-03-03T17:39:32Z It's a rare European appearance for the Scots-born troubadour and support will come from up-and-coming acoustic artists from Glasgow and beyond. This week's new clubs 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z Which might seem risky for a lyricist routinely accused of pretentious blather, and a troubadour often given to telling more than he shows. Music Review: Sting at Roseland Ballroom - Review 2011-11-09T22:11:10Z A galloping country and western saga, “Peanut Butter Conspiracy” finds Buffett turning stories of his early years as a troubadour struggling to keep himself fed into a riotous myth. The 12 essential Jimmy Buffett songs 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z "RIP to the troubadour of my youth," wrote one Parrothead on X, formerly known as Twitter. Jimmy Buffett: Margaritaville singer dies aged 76 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z Merle Haggard, the region’s pre-eminent troubadour, vowed in a song that he would “never swim Kern River again” after a lover drowned in its waters. After a Winter Deluge, California Rivers Are Too Dangerous to Enjoy 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Lightfoot remained close to his roots as a Canadian troubadour, however, often seeking to evoke the grandeur and mystery of the country’s vastness. Gordon Lightfoot, hit-making Canadian singer-songwriter, dies at 84 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z It helped establish a popular theme among modern-day troubadours with its tale of a lonely and destitute wanderer far from home “with a dollar in my hand, and an aching in my heart.” Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter known for hits such as “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown,” has died 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z This revealing film is filled with pleasant balladry from a likable troubadour; but it also shows what it’s like to sing his little tunes while under unfathomable pressure. Review: Documentaries take intimate looks at musicians Jason Isbell and Lewis Capaldi 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Six days earlier, he received a National Medal of Arts at the White House, where President Biden described him as “a poet, troubadour, a chronicler of American life and resilience and hope and dreams.” Review | Bruce Springsteen might stop one day. But for now, it’s no surrender. 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z For more than a decade, Future has been a troubadour of toxicity and the artist most responsible for how rappers sound when delivering odes to the conspicuous consumption of codeine, couture and companions. Review | On the “One Big Party” tour, past glories and Future aspirations 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Ten celebrities add their voices to Dylan’s in covering the old troubadour’s engagement with — or intrusion upon — 66 of his favorite songs and their singers. Review | Bono, Bob Dylan and Chuck Berry: Whose audiobook is worth a listen? 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z But in the city, she lived by her word “as a woman troubadour,” performing her erotic poems with a musical trio. Cecilia Vicuña’s Desire Lines 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z She was right, his calls wafted through the summer evening like a troubadour’s serenade reaching out for your mind and heart. 'Like having God Almighty doing play by play': Our readers remember Vin Scully 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Robert Earl Keen’s Friday show at the Birchmere, on a tour designed to let the Texas troubadour say farewell to fans and vice versa, was full of melancholy raucousness. Review | Robert Earl Keen’s melancholy but raucous farewell at the Birchmere 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z Among the most prominent — and controversial — was folk/rock troubadour and eventual Nobel Literature Prize winner Bob Dylan, born Robert Alan Zimmerman and raised in the Jewish faith. Rock music can have a Christian soul, evangelist Greg Laurie says in new book 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z And which Dylan would you make the statue of anyway: the folkie, the holy roller, the grizzled troubadour? One Fan’s Search for Seeds of Greatness in Bob Dylan’s Hometown Sometimes troubadours sang their own verses in the castles of their lady. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s shared stages and dwellings with America’s most storied troubadours. John Mellencamp still has plenty of fight left in him 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z The last of Mexico’s crooning matinee idols, the self-taught troubadour recorded more than 50 albums, all in Spanish, and sold tens of millions of copies. Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, Mario Lopez mourn Vicente Fernández: 'Voice of a culture' 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z During a career that began on the street corners of Guadalajara, the self-taught troubadour recorded more than 50 albums, all in Spanish, and sold tens of millions of copies, nearly half in the United States. Vicente 'Chente' Fernandez, the King of Mexican song who saluted working-class heroes, has died 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z No matter where I sit, I will be patiently waiting for the troubadour to look me dead in the eye. One Fan’s Search for Seeds of Greatness in Bob Dylan’s Hometown A troubadour might sing about love’s disappointments: “My loving heart, my faithfulness, myself, my world she deigns to take. Then leave me bare and comfortless to longing thoughts that ever wake.” World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The young troubadour said he wants to inspire people to make the world a better place and to set aside money to help people in need during the holidays. 7-year-old social influencer urges unity over the holidays 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z According to the nonprofit Save the Manatee Club — co-founded by Florida troubadour Jimmy Buffet — one calf is born every two to five years after a manatee reaches sexual maturity at about age 5. Florida tops 1,000 manatee deaths in grim single-year record 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z The various troubadours eager to get a song in were well placed. Review: L.A. Opera is back big time with 'Tannhäuser' 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Painter and television personality Bob Ross held his palette and brush as a troubadour does his guitar. Review: 'Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed' reveals a complex legacy 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z In the troubadour’s eyes, noblewomen were always beautiful and pure. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Political poetry in Myanmar dates to the days when Burmese kingdoms employed troubadours to galvanize soldiers before battle. Countering the Coup, One Verse at a Time 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z The troubadour has won 10 Grammy awards, including three for his 1997 album Time Out of Mind, which many critics considered to be a return to form after a long artistic slump. Bob Dylan: 80 things you may not know about him on his 80th birthday 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z A year without touring also transformed the peripatetic troubadour into a studio rat, and the set is layered with his vocal and instrumental overdubs. Review: Pandemic makes folkie Todd Snider a funky studio rat 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z If the curtain does rise here in L.A. this fall, at least our troubadour — thanks to Barcelona — will not be rusty. Dudamel conducts for an audience of 1,000 indoors. What reopening looks like in Spain 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Filmmaker Martin Scorsese traces Bob Dylan’s evolution from folk troubadour to iconic rock star. Movies on TV this week: 'The Great Escape' on TCM 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z He was neither a troubadour nor a rocker but a kid from the Los Angeles suburbs with an innate sense for songwriting and the technical knowledge to get it all done himself. Emitt Rhodes, a one-man 1970s cult band from Hawthorne, dies at 70 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Gad, who voices the show’s troubadour narrator, leads a spectacular opening number that introduces the park’s many people and pastimes, and its role as the city’s defining public space. 'The Avengers of musical theater': The talent behind 'Central Park' sings for itself 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z He goes with it while dressed in his usual outfit of a tan top hat and red coat and riding pants, the regal troubadour for a kingdom of none. Column: He plays alone to empty seats, but L.A.'s only working live musician has song of hope 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Pleased as punch, Sherry thanked Bressan as the genteel troubadour moved down to the next window. Music therapist takes on role of wandering troubadour 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Paudel also initiated a collaboration with a musician from the Gandharva ethnic group, whose traveling troubadours are famous in Nepal for their sorrowful ballads, played on a stringed instrument called a sarangi. To Stop Wildlife Crime, Conservationists Ask Why People Poach 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Instead, listen to: “Merry Christmas From The Family,” by Robert Earl Keen, for a Texas troubadour’s take on that theme. The 12 worst Christmas and holiday songs ever (and what to play instead) | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z I love seeing the golden whistler sing so beautifully in its honeyed whistle to its reflection in our shack kitchen window, like a lost troubadour. Birds are liberation that never ends. But enjoying their company is also to know an inconsolable sadness | Richard Flanagan 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z He does, however, agree with the soapbox troubadours that music, lyrical or no, is often more useful than rhetoric for that kind of communication. A D.C. composer channels his social conscience into art 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z But in the concert scenes, watching him in this evocatively lit, rustic space — his raggedy rock star light dialed down to a burnished troubadour glow — he masterfully strides both qualities: solitary storyteller and bandleader. Review: Bruce Springsteen's poignant ‘Western Stars’ provides a guide to the damaged soul 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z As someone who’s spent years researching such matters as the music of the ancient world and the age of the troubadours while also tracking current releases, I’m pleased to report that Gioia taught me plenty. Review: The history of music — all of it — in 400-plus pages 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z AUDIBLE: OKAY, BRO “There is an element of feeling a little bit like a traveling troubadour.” Support for impeachment jumps 10 points 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z She accompanied herself on an amplified troubadour harp and with an electronic setup that allowed her parallel route to be from floatingly meditative to beat-driven danceable. Review: At Descanso Gardens, music meets nature and 'Silence' means many things 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z To mark the occasion in 1964, a multi-day celebration featured dancers at City Hall, and “a group of gaily garbed troubadours serenaded downtown crowds.” Newsletter: A search for answers in the sea 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Two years ago, when Sheeran released “Shape of You,” he was using that kind of groove to show he was more than a soft-hearted acoustic troubadour. Review: Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber's 'I Don't Care' makes early bid for song of summer 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Like a medieval troubadour, he begins generating love poetry, thousands of haikus that combine longing with high-minded concern for his lady’s virtue. Man, Woman, and Robot in Ian McEwan’s New Novel 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z “I worry that there probably isn’t much more room, certainly on our playlist, for the next acoustic guitar-wielding troubadour,” says Price. The ordinary boys: how Ed Sheeran-inspired troubadours swept the charts 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Flaubert wrote this story for his old friend and “fellow troubadour” George Sand. Bite-sized: 50 great short stories, chosen by Hilary Mantel, George Saunders and more 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z A brother, Joe Glazer, became a protest singer known as “labor’s troubadour” for his performances at picket lines and union rallies. Nathan Glazer, urban sociologist and label-defying intellectual, dies at 95 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The same goes for Clay himself — he’s an acoustic troubadour with a modern swagger, a pop-ready songwriter with a silky sheen. 4 concerts to see in the Washington area over the next several days 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Jimi, who is 25, looks like a gypsy troubadour in moccasins and British peacoat, his electric hair stuffed into a jaunty Western hat banded with purple ribbon and silver hoops. Seattle DJ Pat O’Day, now 84, recalls the day superstar Jimi Hendrix was too cool for school 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z He had the posture of a green bean, which made it possible to see the continuity with his younger self, the lanky wild-eyed troubadour. “Ways and Means” 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z So I was one reluctant troubadour stepping foot on the completed yet still-not-open South Course at Arcadia Bluffs. New Arcadia Bluffs course offers a fresh take on a familiar idea - Golf Digest 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Second-billed Hunt shares many of Bryan’s roots as a heartfelt troubadour, but he blazed up the charts by stepping far outside that tradition, with hits that are barely country at all. Review: Luke Bryan brings an inclusive country-rock message to Dodger Stadium 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Indeed, Americana’s well-intentioned project of desegregating American roots genres continues to be largely done by its leading, commercially viable white male troubadours. 'They put us in a little box': how racial tensions shape modern soul music 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Kevin Brooks of the Eastport Oyster Boys, a group who describe themselves as “Chesapeake Bay troubadours,” regularly performs on the American Constitution. ‘People want to go there’: D.C.’s newest neighborhood welcomes American Revolution-themed cruise ship 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z A poetic idea, but Occitan needs more than modern troubadours now. Occitan's fight to stay away from the cliff of extinction 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Like traveling troubadours, they showed up each weekend in your den. Keith Jackson was college football, authentic, homespun and wonderful 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Not Even Happiness is the sound of a modern-day troubadour searching in solitude. The best albums of 2017: the full list 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z “I was a troubadour,” she later told the Chicago Tribune, “and I’d sing whatever I saw, whatever I knew. ‘ Della Reese, star of long-running TV show ‘Touched by an Angel,’ dies at 86 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The primary phase of Dylan, the hard-traveling troubadour, was heavily inspired by Dust Bowl balladeer Guthrie. Editorial Roundup: Recent editorials in Oklahoma newspapers 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Downie, a former jewelry designer who taught herself to paint only four years ago, finds inspiration in sources as disparate as troubadours, exotic animals and her family’s matriarchs. null 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Korkejian wore a dress with embroidered sleeves, as if a desert troubadour arrived from a caravan. Voices of the City: Bedouine's nomadic spirit finds songs, acclaim and conviction in L.A. 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z However, Mr. Sheehan and his fellow troubadours did “borrow” something from the chocolate bar. Mr. Big bassist Billy Sheehan discusses new album ‘Defying Gravity’ and ‘Sex and the City’ character 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z He was 4 when his father died, and Mr. Phiri’s mother remarried, to a troubadour from Malawi. Ray Phiri, South African jazz musician who performed with Paul Simon, dies at 70 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z So when the call for help came from East Anglia's Children's Hospices, the flame-haired troubadour was only too happy to do his bit. From to Sting to Ed Sheeran: The celebrities who saved the day - BBC News 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Iron Maiden was formed in 1975 by Steve Harris, who was talented enough to play for West Ham’s youth team before leaving to become a full-time bassist, songwriter, and heavy metal troubadour. How England's first wave of heavy metal football conquered Europe | Paul Doyle 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z The words and tunes that Woody Guthrie, the Dust Bowl troubadour, made famous are at the center of this high-spirited show at the Irish Rep. The Playlist: A Different Side of Chuck Berry and a New Sound for Coldplay 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Last month, the gritty troubadour with a revivalist spirit unveiled the highly anticipated follow-up, “From A Room: Volume 1,” which debuted at the top of the country charts. Summer Concert Guide: 31 can’t-miss shows, from Kendrick Lamar to U2 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z That explains why the national Democratic Party put up only a half-hearted fight and the nominee ended up being Quist, an amiable cowboy troubadour with a diffident campaign style and checkered personal financial history. Everyone's a winner! Or what to take away from that special congressional race in Montana 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z We had this idea of being travelling troubadours. An incredible journey with the Incredible String Band - BBC News 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Nanny O’Brien’s is your typical busy Irish pub on St. Patrick’s Day, with live music from Irish troubadour Conor Malone starting at noon. 9 cool ways to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Washington 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Instead, live troubadours perform Irish folk songs every night of the week. Faith and traditions infuse St. Patrick’s Day in Savannah 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z This suggestive gaze penetrates the record, with Marling desiring, idealising and pining for women in the vein of a traditional male troubadour. Laura Marling: 'I had no identity. I was socially bankrupt' 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z In the summer of 1969, Newsweek published an article under the headline The Girls – Letting Go, charting the burgeoning careers of a group of young musicians it termed “a new school of talented female troubadours”. From Joni Mitchell to Laura Marling: how female troubadours changed music 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z He won his first Oscar in 2010 for his portrayal of an alcoholic troubadour in “Crazy Heart,” another role in which age and experience — although in vastly different personalities — lift a man into fable. Jeff Bridges is an actor with wide range, eloquence and a new Oscar nomination 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Every age needs its troubadours, and the 1930s got one that was bound for glory: Woodrow Wilson Guthrie. At Seattle Rep, a look at Woody Guthrie’s songs for you and me 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z This teen idol just wanted a few more minutes to be a troubadour. How Justin Bieber turned KIIS-FM's Jingle Ball into an acoustic jam session 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z Among them were Ernest Hemingway, a Castro hero and longtime resident of Cuba; authors Jean-Paul Sartre and Gabriel García Márquez; and Bob Dylan, the troubadour of the American counterculture. Fidel Castro, revolutionary leader who remade Cuba as a socialist state, dies at 90 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z This early stretch of the year brings releases by several songwriters who might fall into that “troubadour” category. From Joni Mitchell to Laura Marling: how female troubadours changed music 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z While the group is known for energetic live shows, Khuri began as a bedroom troubadour. Kingsley Flood looks inward for inspiration 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Not because they were now rich and had gained scientific immortality, but because they would get to meet the legendary troubadour himself at the festivities in Stockholm. Bob Dylan Won. But in Science, the Times They Aren’t A-Changin’. 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Plant, who only played a handful of dates on the Lampedusa tour, said he was invited to join the troubadours by fellow musician Patty Griffin. Immigration issues central to rock tour Lampedusa, featuring Robert Plant, Emmylou Harri 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z He scrambled through the troubadour of song bit. Women on Bob Dylan 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Nearly half a century after that first wave of new female troubadours, it seems women songwriters are still muddling out a way to be. From Joni Mitchell to Laura Marling: how female troubadours changed music 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z At Izzy Young’s Folklore Center, indigent troubadours like Mr. Dylan could listen to records. Bob Dylan and New York: A Complicated, Fertile Romance 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z In the early '90s he seemed to find comfort only in the rhythm of the road, losing himself in the troubadour tradition, not even wanting to talk about songwriting or his future. 'I always admired true artists, so I learned from them': The enigmatic Bob Dylan opens up 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The sweet folk troubadour had transformed himself into a hedonistic rock star, with trademark dark glasses hiding eyes glazed by drink and drugs. Bob Dylan: Singer, songwriter, literary great - BBC News 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z For a troubadour of sadness—“the godfather of gloom,” he was later called—Cohen found frequent respite in the arms of others. Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z In his own early songs, he demonstrated a period-specific melange of traditional British troubadour storytelling intermixed with a Broadway flair and a dash of psychedelia and progressive rock influences. Yusuf/Cat Stevens marks 50th anniversary at Pantages 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Bruce Springsteen is often called the troubadour of white, working-class America, a landscape he explores in his autobiography released this week. In Bruce Springsteen’s America, Many Turn Toward Donald Trump 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The 21st century troubadours travel light here, with only guitars, a bit of harmonica and the ambient sounds of birds and trains. Review: Bragg and Henry shine on rail-inspired, recorded set 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z I think “troubadour” is an apt description of him. Searching for Buried Treasure in the Scottish Highlands 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Events in the last year included talks and readings with an Argentine illustrator, a Cuban troubadour and two Peruvian writers. Spanish on the Shelves, Latin Culture in the Air at a Bookstore in Queens 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Like the critics who will see this as a vanity project: the idea that the 49-year-old actor can successfully refashion himself as a bona fide country troubadour. Kiefer Sutherland, country singer: 'This is what I want to do with my life' 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Lukather has been part of Mr. Starr’s supporting cast of troubadours for the last five years. Ringo Starr of Beatles and All-Star Band come to D.C.’s Warner Theatre 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z "It's only when you do a show that the singer comes alive. "It's an integral part of any concert to have someone in the spotlight - the humble entertainer, the immodest troubadour. ABC's Martin Fry 'beyond risk' on the sequel to Lexicon Of Love - BBC News 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Garnet isn’t a scientist, he’s not a professional explorer—he’s more of a troubadour. Searching for Buried Treasure in the Scottish Highlands 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z “Throughout his long and extraordinary career, Guy Clark blazed a trail for original and groundbreaking artists and troubadours.” Guy Clark, legendary country singer-songwriter, dies aged 74 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z After Davis lost out to the Rams on the one-way-ticket-to-L.A. sweepstakes, he looked elsewhere to relocate his band of under-.500 football troubadours. The Raiders’ pursuit of a Las Vegas move is so terrible, it makes perfect sense 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Together they released Rest in Chaos, their first set of original songs and this spring they are on the jam band circuit, a new environment for Snider, known for his troubadour spirit. Todd Snider finds Rest in Chaos: 'When I take hallucinogens it’s usually for work' 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z But the advice given to the creative generators of this multibillion dollar industry is still one that would be recognizable to a medieval troubadour: Go on tour. Touring Can’t Save Musicians in the Age of Spotify 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Although the two troubadours have very different vocal styles, he heard similarities between Waits and Browne. BBC Sound of 2016 winner Jack Garratt: The story so far - BBC News 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z As that band started to fade, Mr. Case made a conscious decision to leave the world of rock ‘n’ roll behind to travel the road as a modern-day folk-singing troubadour. Peter Case of The Plimsouls releases new CD ‘HWY 62’ in homage to Bob Dylan 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z "These are our brothers, our fellow troubadours & they were robbed of their stage" Bono said in introducing the band. Eagles of Death Metal join U2 onstage in Paris 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z The album is a guitar-heavy collection of hard luck stories with Case at the helm, singing guttural tones in fine troubadour fashion. Music Review: Peter Case ‘HWY 62’ leads to a good place 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z A blithe generalization, ignoring the vibrantly secular sensibilities of the troubadours, Marie de France, Geoffrey Chaucer, Giovanni Boccaccio and many other writers of the Middle Ages. Spiritual leader of a medieval city in crisis 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z When he and his band were coming up, he said the journeymen troubadours would often wander the National Mall at night, hunkering privately at D.C.’s numerous monuments. Adam Duritz of Counting Crows interview: ‘People are open to our weirdness’ 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Q: When you did your first solo record in 1986, you made a conscious decision to be a modern day troubadour, yes? Peter Case of The Plimsouls releases new CD ‘HWY 62’ in homage to Bob Dylan 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z On “Palmetto Rose,” a South Carolinian wrestles with his state’s complicated heritage, which shows Isbell is a troubadour in touch with his times. Review: Homophones, synonyms and more from Jason Isbell 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The male troubadours, in his view, provide another instance of “men assuming a dominant position in a musical field after women had made the visionary—and often transgressive—first steps.” Why Love Lyrics Last 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z In a way, you were a precursor of the early-70s troubadours, the James Taylors and Jackson Brownes, weren’t you? Art Garfunkel: 'Weird is a fair word for me' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The 82-year-old troubadour, who still performs more than 150 shows a year, considers the open road his authentic home, but Austin is a close second. Octogenarian, pot-smoking music legend 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z She was credited with singing it for Pete Seeger, the folk troubadour who popularized tunes such as “If I Had a Hammer” and “This Land Is Your Land,” along with “We Shall Overcome.” Guy Carawan, who promoted ‘We Shall Overcome’ as civil rights anthem, dies 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The Boston troubadour was back at Fenway Park on Sunday night to debut a new single, “Angels of Fenway,” named for the historic ballpark. James Taylor debuts song about Red Sox-Yankees at Fenway 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z The troubadour goes optimistic in the title track before funking out on “Walking Like a Man” and the bluegrass-influenced “Roses in the Rain.” New springtime CDs offer bouquet of tunes as fresh as the weather 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z This bedroom troubadour from Brattleboro, Vermont nudges his unassuming folk songs through subtle torsions of melody that suggest something fantastic or horrific might happen at any moment. Month’s best music: Metro Boomin, Jib Kidder, Colleen Green and more 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z New social media platforms beget new pop stars, and this 16-year-old is the troubadour prince of Vine where he’s become famous for crooning in six-second video snippets. Here’s why the Jingle Ball should be more like ‘The Hunger Games’ 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z “I never imagined that a program like this could exist,” the troubadour said. USAID op undermines Cuba’s hip-hop protest scene 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The answer is at La Salle University, which runs what it believes to be the nation’s only academic collection focused on songwriter, poet, and troubadour Bob Dylan. La Salle’s Bob Dylan collection getting noticed 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z In that legend, Drake is the consummate image of the troubled troubadour. Why Nick Drake is not the patron saint of the miserable 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z But worse, they were not true musicians, not troubadours, who lived on the road and met the people where they lived. Jerry Lee Lewis: ‘There was no pure rock’n’roll before Jerry Lee Lewis’ 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Then there are those who admire the former rock god’s post-Zep reign as a restless experimenter and global troubadour with little use for nostalgia. Review: Robert Plant crosses continents on album 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The troubadour asked for the computer to be returned, saying, “Look, if there’s a problem, tell them I gave him the computer as a present.” USAID op undermines Cuba’s hip-hop protest scene 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z As a young singer she found herself in New York's Greenwich Village during the early 1960s where, at one time, she shared an apartment with an up-and-coming troubadour named Bob Dylan. Been and gone: Lady who collected curious crisps 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z In the next, a troubadour strums a guitar and sings protest songs for a party of high school soccer players. Kabul cafe is a front line in a war over culture and social mores in Afghanistan The lives of these hoop troubadours is not so different. Rucker Park Stars Set Their N.B.A. Dreams Aside and Head Abroad 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Folk-funk troubadour Beck shot to fame with "Loser," a song that used sly humor to embrace his generation's reputation for career-averse slacking. Beck, Queens of the Stone Age, New Edition and more top July concerts in the D.C. area He is considered a troubadour of the “other” California, where the hot sun beats down on a landscape of Valley fever, manual labor and Tulare dust, far from the coast. Preservationists Aim to Save Merle Haggard’s Childhood Home 2014-02-26T17:34:59Z As much as he was known around the world as a troubadour of idealism, was at bottom a plain-spoken citizen of Beacon, N.Y. The Man Up the Hill in His Log Cabin Who Sang and Sailed to Save His River 2014-01-29T03:12:57Z Chile's circus scene first emerged in the late 19th Century as a ragtag group of troubadours who performed variety shows in the port city of Valparaiso, 80 miles west of Santiago. Santiago's red light jugglers 2013-09-05T00:43:56Z Outside the building, David Peel, a 1960s troubadour known for an ’80s anthem of sorts with the refrain, “Die Yuppie Scum,” was reminiscing about the Grateful Dead. City Room: Loan Dispute Threatens a Countercultural Soapbox 2013-06-10T00:16:58Z One minute the brawling gypsy was reviewing VT and the next he'd mutated into a lunatic troubadour. Tyson Fury makes a mess of his US debut against Steve Cunningham 2013-04-25T10:48:31Z He mentioned the influence of the “griots,” the West African troubadours who emerged in Mali as far back as the 12th century. Letter from Europe: Jazz Warrior Defending Mali's Values 2013-02-01T14:30:08Z James Taylor, who long ago became the Democratic Party’s official troubadour, sings America for Beautiful. What You Missed While Not Watching Yesterday's Presidential Inauguration 2013-01-22T11:05:24Z The London troubadour sold 500,000 copies of his debut album Home Again around the world last year and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Haim top BBC Sound of 2013 list 2013-01-04T07:16:54Z He did not promise the fire and rain of James Taylor the troubadour, though the England captain will be hoping against hope for more of the former than the latter. Taylor's time is at hand for England 2012-08-01T16:45:01Z From their early incarnation as pop troubadours to their dramatic reinvention as the kings of disco in the mid-1970s, they notched up more than 200 million album sales worldwide. Obituary: Robin Gibb 2012-05-20T23:08:51Z All the jolly things have disappeared from the world—war and highwaymen and pirates and troubadours and crusaders and maypoles and the Inquisition. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z In the Middle Ages, monks and troubadours represented him to be either some monstrous idol, or an incorrigible drunkard, fallen on a dung-heap and devoured by hogs. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z Like his father, Alonso II., moreover, he was a troubadour, and his songs won applause, none the less hearty, perhaps, that he was a liberal patron of rival poets. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z On a Saturday night last month, a coterie of fans sang and swayed to the finely wrought tunes of the troubadour Steve Forbert. | Hudson Valley: The Towne Crier in Dutchess County Is at a Crossroads 2012-04-07T05:43:10Z A cardinal, a troubadour, and countless gallant and noble soldiers filled up the family rolls—the best blood in France had mingled with theirs; but now the family were obscure, forgotten, and poor. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He is a troubadour by instinct; he has little or nothing of Scandinavian local colouring, and succeeds best when he is describing the scenery or the emotions of the glowing south. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The Gallego tongue was the first in the Peninsula to reach literary culture, and in the Middle Ages two ideal troubadours wrote in it. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Art thou a soldier or a troubadour that love is always on thy lips? Six One-Act Plays 2012-03-26T02:00:36.910Z With the troubadours it became a favourite theme. Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, July 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:19.393Z The troubadours sang of mythology, and the language of idolatry was purified by its application to the praises of the martyrs, as is shown in the poems of St. Paulinus. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He feels that monks and troubadours, though in a similar position, were brought into more healthy connection with man and nature, than he who is supposed to look at them merely to write them down. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z There in the road just ahead of them ambled Sandhelo, and by his side walked Sahwah, dressed in her troubadour costume, the red cloak flying out in the breeze. The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door 2012-02-21T03:00:19.740Z But I like to look on the composer's vocation as the old troubadours or bards did. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z The first Marquis of Santillana had been a famous warrior and troubadour. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Many a medieval troubadour used a mandolin to serenade his lady, with whom he’d dine and mate. Opinion: Fruit Flies and Love 2012-01-14T18:16:22Z "Gaily the troubadour touched his guitar As he was hastening from the war." The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z The members of the band were dressed as Spanish troubadours in costumes of blinding scarlet, with their instruments hung around their neck by ribbons. The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door 2012-02-21T03:00:19.740Z Sometimes their ranks were swelled by passing troubadours from Provence who sang of the feats of Charlemagne and of King Arthur and his knights. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z They were the troubadours and minstrels of eastern Europe; the largest collection of Rumanian popular ballads and songs was gathered by G. Dem. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z So, perhaps, sang his old troubadour ancestors, and the sweet notes had died with the days of chivalry to be born in Raoul de Clermont. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z Oh! the castles, and life in the middle ages, and the troubadours, and heralds and all. Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z In the wake of the troubadours stumbled an enormously fat clown in a suit half red and half white, blowing up a rubber bladder, which emitted a plaintive squawk. The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks or, The House of the Open Door 2012-02-21T03:00:19.740Z Already the image of the Lady Poverty had visited him, and enamoured like a very troubadour he composed songs in her honour as he walked in the woods near Assisi. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z And what of the troubadour and his monkey?’ The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z Our notions of "romantic" love took their rise in the Middle Ages, from the songs and narratives of the troubadours, and this whole tradition was based upon the glorification of illegitimate and extra-marital love. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z Oh Zina darling, do sing us that lovely ballad all about knights, you know, and the girl who lived in a castle and loved a troubadour. Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z The trouv�re was drawn from the same class as the troubadour, and the circumstances of their lives were in essentials much the same. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z At other times he found a peaceful asylum at the Emperor's court, presenting a strange contrast to the "strolling minstrels, troubadours, poets, warriors, jugglers and artists of every grade" who frequented it. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z There is no foolish trade, as one of the old troubadours said! San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z Here too may be seen in all his glory that peculiar type of Andalusian, the "Majo," a curious blend of the English "masher" the "sporting man" and the "troubadour"! Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z He wrote many love-songs, many of which owe their existence to those of the troubadours. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z It was an audience rich and idle, familiar with the fantastic lives of the troubadours, and with the wanton judgments of the Courts of Love. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z If Beethoven may be called the ideal listener for a troubadour, Schubert has a right to be called the ideal troubadour. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z The heralds waited Near the open gates; the minstrels young and fair Upon the tapestries and arrased walls, And everywhere from all the happy provinces The wandering troubadours. The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z No verbal tour de force of troubadour or trouv�re or jongleur or Ronsardist was too fantastic for imitation and adoption. Open Water 2011-10-14T02:00:31.043Z Not for him the sweet felicities of the mincing phraser or the dreamy languors of the riming troubadour. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z This doll adult, when featly tired, Can all that's great or fair display, Warrior, or dame, or saint inspired, Prince, troubadour, or lovely may. A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z Romanticism meant more than was implied in the definition of Madame de Staël, viz., the transference to French literature of 'the poetry originating in the songs of the troubadours, the offspring of chivalry and Christianity.' Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Voss was so thoroughly wholesome, so bourgeois, so natural; while they, the new troubadours, were so morbid and somnambulistic, so high-flown and aristocratic, and altogether so unnatural. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z "No, my dear girl; that's called a villanelle, the favorite song of our ancient troubadours, and of shepherds who bemoaned their shepherdesses." The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z Two other names in literature are connected with Langeais: Ronsard, the poet, who lived here for a time, and C�sar-Alexis-Chichereau, Chevalier de la Barre, who was a poet and a troubadour of repute. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z The vows of chivalry were no better kept than any other vows whatever, and the songs of the troubadour were not more decent, and certainly much less refined, than those of Ovid. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Under the Knickerbocker elm-trees he would stand, sometimes, a wild, impassioned troubadour, aflame with songs of love for his imprisoned mate. The ghosts of their ancestors 2011-08-08T02:00:20.667Z She sometimes rode out under guard, she was allowed to walk upon the terrace and in the walled garden, and she talked sometimes with the troubadour and with old Tomaso. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z When the patrol had departed he breathed more freely, and cried,— "They have taken us for simple troubadours." The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z The voice of the troubadour was soon after hushed for ever, but that thirteenth-century masterwork—though by two hands and the respective portions unequal in merit—lives for ever as the greatest of its kind. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z The songs of the troubadour, the many-tomed romances of the Middle Ages—those ponderous sires of modern novels—all emanated from that source. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z A troubadour, yoga enthusiast and math geek, Muller makes an unlikely Morgan Stanley executive. Trader is ready to go it alone 2011-07-24T02:58:00Z “I will bring you some,” the troubadour answered, and a moment later he was striding toward the two girls among the flowers. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z They want them to be husbands, troubadours and libertines. Modern marriage 2011-07-22T14:51:09Z He was a troubadour; it was his profession to turn thoughts into artistic verse, and so he taught me. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z Eglamor is dead with spite, and the troubadours have a new chief. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z If he had lived in the Middle Ages, he would have been a knight-errant and a troubadour, only he cannot sing. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z So at least thought the troubadour who came riding by and saw them. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z The Texan troubadour famed for hits such as "Crazy" and "Always on My Mind" ran into trouble last November when his tour bus stopped for an immigration checkpoint about 90 miles southeast of El Paso. Willie Nelson pot plea still not hashed out 2011-07-01T22:07:41Z The poet sees the shades of Virgil and the troubadour Sordello join in a loving embrace at the bare mention of the name of Mantua, where both of them were born. Dante Six Sermons 2011-06-24T02:00:17.117Z About the same time some biographical notices of the troubadours, written in the language of Provence, mention Sordello as having been the son of a poor knight of Mantua. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z There the two musicians would contend, like two troubadours, in a kind of tournament of song. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z Ranulph the troubadour was riding along a lonely moorland trail, singing softly to himself. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z We are not in the age of the errants and the troubadours, when men committed a thousand follies that they might be thought weaker even than nature had made them. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z Both troubadours of democracy believed that universal suffrage was dooming democracy, as uninformed voters backed politicians who colluded with robber barons to destroy the country. Everything you know about the Civil War is wrong 2011-06-09T13:01:00Z In several of his poems he violently attacks Pierre Vidal, the troubadour, whom he seems to have hated bitterly. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z It reminded him of his own young days; and he knew that Roland was as romantic as any young troubadour. Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z You may talk freely to me or to Ranulph the troubadour, but to no one else unless we give you leave. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z Though a rover, he is no troubadour, and cannot charm thy ear with false rhymes. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z The evening flies mirthfully away, listening to the minstrel's tales and ballads, these latter being mostly in Tartar, the Proven�al of the eastern troubadour. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The return of Adelaide to the castle demands the services of the troubadours: Sordello’s chance lies this way. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Side by side with the southern troubadours, or a little later than they, the trouv�res of the north sang, with more manly ambition, of national themes, and, like Virgil, of arms and of heroes. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The troubadour swung him up to the front of the saddle and they rode on through the gathering dusk. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z In the centuries agone, such a songster would have been a first-class troubadour, much sought and praised in princely circles. Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson 2011-05-14T02:00:10.627Z The itinerant singer used to be the troubadour of the poor. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Arriving at Mantua, he finds a Court of Love, in which his lady sits enthroned as queen, and the troubadour Eglamor contending for her prize against all comers. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z "List, then, beloved members of my family——" "Hark to the troubadour," mocked Ethel Blue. Ethel Morton at Chautauqua 2011-05-04T02:00:16.097Z “It is all right,” he said, nodding to the troubadour. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z She is still the goddess of the troubadours and the minnesingers, but a goddess who is treated as the South-sea Islanders treat their gods, beating them when they are not propitious. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z With the langue d'oc came-15- the various forms of troubadour lyric. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z This revolt has its most pointed expression in the prose writings of the poet Heine, who attacks with satiric bitterness "the new troubadours, so morbid and somnambulistic, so high-flown and aristocratic, and altogether so unnatural." Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z It reminds one of the good old times of the troubadours!” The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z I tell you, Philip will hate the English like his father before him, and these are times when a troubadour who can keep a merry face and a close tongue will learn much.” In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z In intelligence and courage few were his equals, while, as a partisan leader, he is entitled to first place; some of his feats in the guerilla line reading more like the fictions of troubadour romance. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Frederick the troubadour was a no less anomalous being than Frederick the crusader. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Toney," said the Professor, "when the young lady hears that she will suppose that the spirit of a troubadour is warbling under her window. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z In the minnesinger and troubadour fiddles, of which evidences abound during the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries, are to be observed the structural characteristics of the violin and its ancestors in the course of evolution. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The Plantagenets are friendly to us troubadours, and the English are a merry people, who delight in songs and the hearing of tales.” In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z Now, when her enemies roused themselves, he sought her out again, and, like a troubadour, devoted his lyre to the noble lady. Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z The material transmitted from the troubadours, handled with affectation by the Sicilians, philosophized by the Florentines, loses transient and specific quality in the Canzoniere. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z "Mr. Seddon, the young lady will be persuaded that you are a twin brother to the troubadour," said the Professor. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z Mathematicians from Granada, philosophers from Alexandria, were as welcome as the troubadours from Provence. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z When they were sung to the harp-music of a troubadour who knew his work, they seemed very real. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z The troubadours influence the German Minnesingers, and these two groups remain among the best composers of love poetry Europe has had. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Some even have asserted that this princess brought in her train the troubadours who spread the taste for poetry and its accompaniments throughout the north of France. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z I shall not say that it was what it should have been—a love, such as we read of among troubadours and knights-errant of the olden time. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z Gentlemen and troubadours came from far and near, and all were received and entertained with distinction. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z A little behind her was a young man in the dress of a troubadour, and servingmen stood outside holding the bridles of the horses. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z His three fallen angels who meet and recall the loves for which they lost heaven, furnish three types of love-story, distinguished with all the care of a troubadour expert in la gaye science. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z Frederic Mistral, in "Mir�io," has written the great modern epic of Provence, which depicts the life as well as the literature of the ancient troubadours. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z Another curious part of the story is Young's previous life as a tortured acoustic troubadour. BBC's Sound of 2011 2011-01-05T07:14:08Z The minnesingers of Germany, the troubadours of Provence, had paused in their amorous ditties to compose bitter gibes against the greed and luxurious life of the great Roman prelates. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z “I have not that pleasure,” laughed the troubadour. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z He struck up a highly sentimental ditty, like a troubadour's. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z At all events the idiom, from whatever it may have sprung, took root, propagated and flourished in the land of the Proven�al troubadours. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z The platoon medic, Specialist Chamberlain, raised on a ranch in Arizona, was also its troubadour and jester. A Year at War: Between Firefights, Jokes and Sweat, Tales and Tedium 2010-11-22T04:30:00Z Jama settles on becoming a troubadour, playing an African stringed instrument called a rababa — until one evening his father appears to him in an apparition and tells him to go to Egypt. Jama?s Travels 2010-08-27T15:04:00Z They had already heard the news of the Lombard victory from Giovanni, who had ridden with the troubadour and stopped at the Abbey Farm. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z Once again, it looks as though two male strategies may be in equilibrium: the hunk and the troubadour, perhaps. Sexual selection: The hunk and the show-off do not always get the girl 2010-06-03T14:01:00Z The popes and the troubadours combined to cast a glamour over the "fair land of Provence" which is irresistible. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z Commercial flights are again arriving in the Port-au-Prince airport -- and the traditional troubadour band is back greeting people at the arrivals gate. Signs of life and love emerge in devastated Haiti 2010-03-04T18:51:00Z He sings in Haiti’s troubadour tradition, playing a guitar and emphasizing contact with the audience in songs of lament, humor and sometimes politics. A Haitian Singer and his Guitar Fight the Urge to Weep 2010-03-05T00:57:00Z In the Middle Ages the counts of Provence held their court here, to which the troubadours used to resort. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide The monarch refused until he had had an opportunity to hear the “spiritual troubadour.” The Story of Our Hymns Deal was no troubadour, and he had no guitar. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches June heralding blitheness from the golden throats of troubadour field larks, rustling and crooning her message in green branches under a sky whose blue is proclamation of her love motif! The Tempering He was neither a troubadour nor a crusader, yet his mode of existence had charms for multitudes of adventurers. History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 It must be allowed, however, that we cannot judge of the troubadours at a greater disadvantage than through the prose translations of Millot. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 Follow this with a second paper on the minnesingers and troubadours and their songs. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. Sometimes he would take a fancy to an utter stranger and greet him as an angel from the blue, singing love-at-first-sight to him at the top of his funny squeal, a four-legged troubadour. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road In the south of France the counterpart of the Trouvere was called "troubadour." The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades "He is but a troubadour," Merlin interjected quickly. The Eye of Wilbur Mook The court of our Norman kings was to the early poets in the Langue d'Oil, what those of Arles and Toulouse were to the troubadours. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 He became a troubadour: but this was not enough; his preceptors were still in doubt; they locked him in a room and gave him as a subject the arrival of Mgr. de Laval in Canada. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 I think we might have a more ideal theatre if interpreters could be their own creators, like the medi�val troubadours or the gipsies of Spain. Interpreters Art in all its forms was a complete passion with him; and with his Provençal wife Eleanor a swarm of foreign artists, painters, sculptors, poets, troubadours, found their way to England. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History From the sunny south, the Provence, the home of minstrels and songs, we learn how the troubadour Pierre Vidal of Toulouse fell desperately in love with Loba of Carcasses. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) But, on the contrary, the poets of Lombardy became troubadours, and wasted their genius in Proven�al love strains at the courts of princes. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 Every one knows that the troubadour and the minnesinger thus addressed their lays; and only the style and general character of their earliest poetry can be considered as borrowed from the popular muse. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 Bright was her queenly eye, and beautiful was her flaxen hair, so well known in romance or in the songs of wandering troubadour. About London And when the fight is over how he glories in the tourneys and jousts—the song of troubadour and minstrel—the chase with hawk and hound. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History We can sympathise as warmly with the paladins of Ariosto, or the knights of Tasso, as ever could the troubadours of Provence or the nobles of Italy. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 The troubadours boast of much better success with Proven�al ladies. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 The troubadour of Provence, like the minnesinger of Germany, imitated these invocations to spring. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 The miseries of her declining years make us more charitable toward her; but it is impossible to respect a character such as that of England's troubadour queen. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) It is far more worthy of critical examination than the fantastic love poems of the troubadours. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. James Stuart took matter more important than “divers English gentlemen” into Scotland: the royal troubadour carried something beside his batch of love rondels away from Windsor Castle as the fruit of his long captivity. Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison The great reputation acquired by the troubadours, and panegyrics lavished on some of them by Dante and Petrarch, excited a curiosity among literary men, which has been a good deal disappointed by further acquaintance. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 The novel moulds by precept and example, and therefore we modern jesters, inky troubadours, are responsible for the gray power which we wield behind the throne. A Novelist on Novels From the south of France, that land of the troubadours, now laid waste in the name of religion, Blanche had nothing to fear in the way of active resistance. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) Bullock's oriole and the Louisiana tanager are here also, with many warblers and other little mountain troubadours, most of them now busy about their nests. My First Summer in the Sierra The cultus, instituted first by the troubadours, then adopted by royals, connected consequently with pride of place, became fashionable among an aristocracy for whose convenience the rest of humanity labored. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern These compositions are certainly more entertaining than those of the troubadours; but, contrary to what I have said of the latter, they often gain by appearing in a modern dress. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 With their faded suits, bonny faces, and gentle manners, they were a charming pair of young troubadours, and every one was glad to listen to the sweet music they made. Lulu's Library, Volume II Unquestionably the trouv�res of northern France owed something of their art to the troubadours of southern France, even if the former were more than mere imitators. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) "A serenade by night may please a lady fair, the troubadour beware." Toilers of the Sea The passing was effected by the troubadour, a title derived from trobar, to compose, whence troubadour, a composer of verse. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern The great defect of Petrarch was his want of strong original conception, which prevented him from throwing off the affected and overstrained manner of the Proven�al troubadours, and of the earlier Italian poets. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 In the Middle Ages, she suffered from the exaggerated praise of the knight and the troubadour on the one hand, and on the other from the contempt and contumely of the ecclesiastic. Women of England Yet, making all the allowances that common sense or charity may warrant, we have to admit that there is only too much evidence of deplorable moral laxity in the days of the troubadours. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) "A serenade by night may please a lady fair, But of uncle and of guardian let the troubadour beware." Toilers of the Sea Darkness was dispersed by love, whose gereralissimi were the troubadour and the knight. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern It was invented at the end of the thirteenth century, by the troubadour Arnaut Daniel, celebrated in the following specimen. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Her betrothed has never seen her, but wandering one day through the valley of Vaucluse, singing his troubadour lays, he beholds her, and is captivated by her beauty. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Accompanied by bands of troubadours and musicians, with much flaunting of gay banners and glittering of spangles, Queen Eleanor, clad man-fashion, in glittering spangle armor, and her ladies rode in the van of the army. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) The minnesinger and the troubadour praised its wines, told of its contests, and celebrated its victories. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine The knight and the troubadour came from Islâm. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Other troubadours followed, and found a home in the court of Richard the Lion-Hearted, who himself entered the ranks of the poets. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Where are the songs, the troubadours, The music which delighted then?— The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries It is no wonder that the soft heart of the troubadour soon forgot its grief for the lost Lady de Ventadour in the new love for his gracious protector. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) When the bow was applied the result was the guitar or troubadour fiddle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" But though except in bearing and appearance the knight did not have to be poetic, the troubadour had to be poetic and chivalrous as well. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Mr. M’Callum and I did not meet, but, like gallant troubadours, corresponded in verse. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) In France and Germany it is even difficult to find the separate prominent singers, for there the whole nation, whatever hath articulate voice in it, takes to singing with its troubadours and minnesingers. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy As illustrative of the position of women in Provence at this time we may select a story as famous in troubadour annals as that of Francesca da Rimini. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) The right-hand shelves were wholly French, from quaint volumes of troubadours' poetry to Alfred de Musset and De Maupassant. A Monk of Cruta Royals were not necessarily on a footing with troubadours, but the latter, who were the peers of kings, required, for the maintenance of their position, abundant means. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern What girl of nineteen would not enjoy the homage of a Viking and a troubadour? Doubloons—and the Girl Hiddigeigei once has felt his heart glow, When the fairest of cats he was wooing; And just as a troubadour's love-songs flow, Rang nightly his spirited mewing. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. In the loves of the troubadours one is constantly encountering stories not less immoral though less tragic than this one, as we may see in the story of the Lady de Miravals. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) The songs of the troubadours and minnesingers, what are they to our feelings? Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II The troubadour’s religion, intoxicating in itself, was love. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern If Drew suggested the Viking type, Parmalee would, with equal fitness, have filled the role of a troubadour. Doubloons—and the Girl To-night there would be no need of a troubadour to implore "Weep no more, my lady". Seven Keys to Baldpate With all his protestations of undying devotion, it not infrequently happened that the troubadour did not continue to devote himself to one lady. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) To such a society the strongly realistic Carolingian epic had ceased to appeal: the tales of the Welsh and Breton bards, repeated by trouvère and jongleur, troubadour and minnesinger, came as a revelation. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II There surviving troubadours escaped and left a legacy which Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio diversely shared. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Thou troubadour of wetness and damp lover Of all cool things! admitted comrade boon Of twilight's hush, and little intimate Of eve's first fluttering star and delicate Round rim of rainy moon! Weeds by the Wall Verses But troubadours, he knew, went out of fashion long before railway stations came in. Seven Keys to Baldpate The vanity of the troubadour, incensed by what he thought unjust treatment, could not withstand this artful attack. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) It is, this earliest Italian poetry, like the more refined poetry of troubadours and minnesingers, eminently an importuning of highborn but loosely living women. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II But the coincidental influence of poetry expressed by the best and richest men of the day had an effect so edulcifying that whatever crapulousness the knight overlooked the troubadour extinguished. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern We are not here to hold a court of troubadours.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) Put in a troubadour if you like, or anything else a romantic imagination may suggest, and let them sing themselves hoarse in every scene. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers The troubadours were soon to make Provence and the Proven�al tongue famous, and the Albigenses, with their heresy, were to invite the destruction of this gay, brilliant, but unsound society. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) And in a large proportion of cases the poems of trouvères, troubadours, and minnesingers are the expression of fortunate love, the fond recollection or eager expectation of meetings with the beloved. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II Technically the troubadour was not only a composer but a knight and not merely that but the representative of chivalry in its supreme expression. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern The two baskets balanced on either side of his raw and prominent backbone contained a troupe of trained dogs, dressed as marquesses, troubadours, Turks, Alpine shepherdesses, or Queens of Golconda, according to their sex. My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 |
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