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- noun Plural form of
aubade .
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The word is from Old Provençal and aubades originated with French troubadours.
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The word is from Old Provençal and aubades originated with French troubadours.
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Everything from your basic haikus and limericks to triolets, aubades, and pantoums.
Archive 2006-04-01 fusenumber8 2006
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Among the outstanding love songs we find the nightingale songs and the aubades and nocturnes, in which the lover, who is also the singer; gives a message of love for his sweetheart to a bird, the nightingale or the lark; in the aubades, the galant sings at his beloved's castle window at daybreak; in the nocturnes, late at night.
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Thus we find ourselves in the presence of conditions not unlike those which produced the tomfooleries of the court of Louis XVI and the musettes, bergerettes and aubades of French song.
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And in all the earlier songs of the troubadours we shall find many traces of the same influence; for their _albas_ or _aubades_
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884
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German minnesingers and the aubades of Provençal troubadours.
Essays on Scandinavian Literature Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871
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These are poems of dusk, not aubades or paeans to the noonday sun.
unknown title 2009
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Furious Lullaby, de la Paz’s second book of poetry, contains no less than ten aubades, each a high point in this fabulous new collection by the author of the award-winning volume Names Above Houses with the same press.
Wednesday Shout Out : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Gottfried and Hartmann, though the former has left no lyric), has left us few but very remarkable _aubades_, in which the commonplace of the morning-song, with its disturbance of lovers, is treated in no commonplace way.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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