Adam de la Halle in the 1278 Chansonnier d'Arras (manuscript 657 in the library of Arras)
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Adam de la Halle (1245–50 – 1285–8/after 1306) was a French poet-composer trouvère.[1] Among the few medieval composers to write both monophonic and polyphonic music, in this respect he has been considered both a conservative and progressive composer, resulting in a complex legacy: he cultivated admired representatives of older trouvère genres, but also experimented with newer dramatic works.[2] Adam represented the final generation of the trouvère tradition and "has long been regarded as one of the most important musical and literary figures of thirteenth-century Europe".[3]
Adam's literary and musical works include chansons and jeux-partis (poetic debates) in the style of the trouvères; polyphonic rondel and motets in the style of early liturgical polyphony; and a musical play, Jeu de Robin et Marion (c. 1282–83), which is considered the earliest surviving secular French play with music. He was a member of the Confrérie des jongleurs et bourgeois d'Arras, a fraternity of jongleurs.
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rondeau d'Adam delaHalle (from 14 Études insérées dans l'Initation à l'orgue) Henri Herz: Fantaisie et variations sur deux motifs du Postillon de Lonjumeau...
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