Adam De La Halle

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• also known as Adam le Bossu (Adam the Hunchback)

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• Adam was a French-born poet and musician, whose literary and musical works include chansons and jeux-partis (poetic debates)

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• The esteem in which de la Halle was held in his time is evidenced by the fact that his were the first musical works to be collected and edited. (They are now in the National Library of Paris.) It is surprising that this volume contains not only his chansons and song plays, but also rondeaux and motets for three voices.