Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a class of German poets and musicians, chiefly peasants and artisans, who began to form gilds or societies for the cultivation of their art in the fourteenth century.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
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- noun A
German lyric poet of the lateMiddle Ages .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In one instance he made a draft on an authentic mastersinger melody.
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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There were five grades of membership: the lowest was that of mere admittance to the guild; the next carried with it the title of scholar; the third the friend of the school; after that came the singer, the poet; and last of all the mastersinger, to attain which distinction the aspirant must have invented a new style of melody or rhyme.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884
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To thoroughly comprehend the story, it is necessary to understand the conditions one had to fulfil before he could be a mastersinger.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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Eva is ready to become his bride, but it is necessary that her husband should be a mastersinger.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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One who had partially mastered the Tabulatur was termed a "scholar;" the one who had thoroughly learned it, a "schoolman;" the one who could improvise verses, a "poet;" and the one who could set music to his verses, a "mastersinger."
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876
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Thereupon the pride of the suffering mastersinger reasserted itself; for while his wife painfully assisted him to mount the stairs, he harshly denied her right to sit in judgment upon his vocal gifts, and sternly ordered her to be silent.
My Life — Volume 1 Richard Wagner 1848
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In the Bibliotheca Norica Williana, incorporated with the Municipal Library of Nuremberg, there are several volumes of mastersingers 'songs purchased from an old mastersinger some 135 years ago, and from these the students may learn the structure and spirit of the mastersongs of the period of the opera as well as earlier and later periods, though he will find all the instruction he needs in any dozen or twenty of the 4275 mastersongs written by Hans Sachs.
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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