troubadour

• [9 It is needless to follow through the Middle Ages the history of the troubadour, the minstrel and the jongleur, who played so large part in the social life of those times. —  The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
• Blithe troubadour, whose laughing note Brings Spring into a poet's throat Flute, feathered joy! —  A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry
• You are the troubadour, Anselm, once the ornament of the Court of Elionore, and Beatrix de Montluçon is your devoted wife. —  Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
• I could now quite understand what a troubadour or jongleur might be, and I look upon Jasmin as a revived specimen of that extinct race. —  Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
• Wolfenbüttel, 1619-20 The instruments used to support song, that of the troubadour or that of a Casella, or later still that of a Galilei, being of the same lineage, the only novelty was the adaptation to them of the lutenist's method of arranging polyphonic music for one voice with accompaniment. —  Some Forerunners of Italian Opera

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