MINNESINGER

mĭnˈĭsĭngˌər, a medieval German knight, poet, and singer of Minne, or courtly love. Originally imitators of Provençal troubadours, minnesingers developed their own style in the 13th and 14th cent. Some of their poems are among the best of Middle High German lyric verse. Important exponents of Minnesang included Heinrich von Morungen, Walther von der Vogelweide, and Oswald von Wolkenstein, as well as Gottfried von Strassburg, Wolfram von Eschenbach, and other authors of epics. Wagner's opera Tannhäuser is based on minnesinger art and tradition.

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books on: Minnesinger  - 276 results

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The Orphan Stone: The Minnesinger Dream of Reich
Book by Richard J. Berleth; Greenwood Press, 1990
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval, In Literature, German Poetry--Middle High German, 1050-1500--History And Criticism, Germany--History--To 1517, History In Literature, Minnesingers
...subsequent eras. This book is about the minnesinger of the Roman Reich and their world...are part of everyones beginning. The minnesinger themselves gloried in myth and transfigured...they have admired. The story of the minnesinger begins with a myth: the conjecture...
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Man and His Music: The Story of Musical Experience in the West
Book by Alec Harman, Anthony Milner, Wilfrid Mellers; Oxford University Press, 1962
Subjects: Music--History And Criticism
...major scale. Among the more important Minnesinger there is one who has become widely known...of Song in 1207 together with another Minnesinger, Wolfram von Eschenbach fl. c . 1200...of his own opera of that name. Other Minnesinger include Neidhart von Reuenthal c . 1180...
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Music in the Renaissance
Book by Gustave Reese; Norton, 1959
Subjects: Music--15th Century--History And Criticism, Music--16th Century--History And Criticism, Renaissance
...themselves musical and poetic heirs of the Minnesinger. But there is a fundamental sociological difference between Minnesinger and Meistersinger, as well as a...difference in their musical products. The Minnesinger were professional musicians, often...
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Literary Patronage in the Middle Ages
Book by Karl Julius Holzknecht; The Collegiate Press, 1923
Subjects: Authors And Patrons, Literature, Medieval
...the troubadour, the trouvere and the minnesinger, types of singer more dignified by...trouvere, and his German counterpart, the minnesinger, is largely nominal; in all cases...trouvere began to sing; the German minnesinger is likewise of late date. In short...
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Early Medieval Music, up to 1300
Book by Dom Anselm Hughes; Oxford University Press, 1954
Subjects: Music--500-1400--History And Criticism
...encompassed by weeping and lamentation. MINNESINGER i Notation and Structure. In the German...closer association. The earliest German Minnesinger, who originated in Austria and Bavaria...also be applied to the songs of the Minnesinger, though it must be admitted that the...
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journal articles on: Minnesinger  - 13 results

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Wolf Biermann: The Minnesinger-Prophet of Germany
Journal article by Albert Friedlander, Evelyn Friedlander; European Judaism, Vol. 36, 2003
Subjects: Biermann, Wolf--Works, German poetry--Translations and translating
Wolf Biermann: The Minnesinger-Prophet of Germany. by Albert Friedlander , Evelyn Friedlander We first met Wolf at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin in 1997...
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Before Michael Field: Katharine Bradley as "Arran Leigh"
Journal article by Matthew Mitton; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 89, 2010
Subjects: Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Field, Michael (Joint pseudonym of Bradley, Katherine Harris and Cooper, Edith Emma)--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, The New Minnesinger (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation
...In 1875 Bradley brought out The New Minnesinger as Arran Leigh, and in 1881 the two...Bradleys debut as Arran Leigh in The New Minnesinger. Bradley is perhaps the most significant...own work). I wish to look at The New Minnesinger in detail, highlighting its own accomplishments...
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The Pit or the Pedestal? the Dichotomization of the Lady in Troubadour Lyric
Journal article by Gale Sigal; The Romanic Review, Vol. 84, 1993
Subjects: French poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Troubadour songs--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...Vogelweide, and Wolfram von Eschenbach--the three greatest Minnesinger who wrote around the year 1200-each composed at least one...counterblast to the more idealistic poetry of the troubadours and Minnesinger" (66). Ferrante succinctly sums up the pastorela as a...
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The Fluidity of Medieval Texts: Some Consequences for Minnesang Interpretation
Journal article by Rod Fisher; AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, 2002
Subjects: Literary criticism, Manuscripts, Middle Ages, Philology, Poetry, Poets
...although her true feelings are to remain hidden, the womans eyes threaten to betray the secret (line 1). For troubadours and Minnesinger the eyes are a favourite motif, as is well known, both as medium and as indicator of love. In performance eye contact...
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Inanna and Dumuzi: A Sumerian Love Story
Journal article by Gonzalo Rubio; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 121, 2001
Subjects: Love poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sumeria--Literature
...probably the result of our Western bias. The tradition of love poetry that stems from the trouveres, troubadours, and Minnesinger of the Middle Ages and their understanding of "courtly love" shows little awareness of the bodies of the lovers. 2 This...
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magazine articles on: Minnesinger  - 6 results

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Wagner's Access to Minnesinger Melodies Prior to Completing Tannhäuser
Magazine article by Larry Bomback; Musical Times, Vol. 147, Autumn 2006
Subjects: Composers, Opera, Wagner, Richard (1813-83)
Wagners Access to Minnesinger Melodies Prior to Completing Tannhauser...manuscript fragments that transmit Minnesinger music, but unfortunately, there...are essentially huge anthologies of Minnesinger poetry, do not contain any music...
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The Meistersingers' Hidden Heritage
Magazine article by Irving Godt; Musical Times, Vol. 144, Winter 2003
Subjects: Civilization, Culture, Germany, History, Music
...twelfth and thirteenth centuries, of the Minnesinger in the Germanics. Since musicology...music and poetry in the manner of the Minnesinger within the framework of their town life...respectfully preserved much of the music of the Minnesinger, whom they regarded as their musical...
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Why We Can't Hear Wagner's Music: It Used to Change Lives. Now We Hear It as Mood Music for Stage Magic. David P. Goldman Looks at the Man Behind the Curtain
Magazine article by David P. Goldman; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, December 2010
Subjects: Librettists--Works, Operetta--Authorship, Operettas--Authorship, Wagner, Richard--Works
...thirteenth-century Grail poem Parzifal, which provided the material for both Parsifal and Lohengrin; the thirteenth-century Minnesinger Tannhauser; the twelfth-century legend (in several versions) of Tristan and Iseult; and the Nibelungenlied itself...
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Arnold Van Wyk's Hard, Stony, Flinty Path, or Making Things Beautiful in Apartheid South Africa
Magazine article by Stephanus Muller; Musical Times, Vol. 149, Winter 2008
Subjects: African history, Composers, Instrumental music, Musical performances
...example of this is perhaps the symphonic suite, Primavera, which was van Wyks favourite orchestral piece and based on a Minnesinger melody of Neithart von Reuenthal. The second movement of the Duo concertante (another Elegia) was based on the virginal...
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Philhellene's Progress: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Magazine article by Ben Downing; New Criterion, Vol. 19, January 2001
Subjects: A Time of Gifts (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Between the Woods and the Water (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Fermor, Patrick Leigh--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Travel--Literature, Travelers--Literature
...several senses of that overtaxed word. It shows in his passionate exuberance; his love of pageantry and heraldry; his "minnesinger disposition" (as Iain Moncreiffe dubbed it); the dashing, gallant quality to everything he does and writes; and, above...
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Celebrating Luther, Who Led Church Revolution
Newspaper article by Betty Lowry; The Washington Times, April 7, 1996
Subjects: Luther, Martin (Religious reformer)
...wall. The Wartburg castle is also the scene of Richard Wagners "Lohengrin," and during the Middle Ages was the site of minnesinger competitions. At the time Luther was in Wartburg, he was translating the New Testament from Greek into German. The Latin...


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encyclopedia articles on: Minnesinger  - 7 results

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Minnesinger
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MINNESINGER min ising r, a medieval German knight, poet, and singer of Minne...and other authors of epics. Wagners opera Tannhauser is based on minnesinger art and tradition. ____________________ Copyright...
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TannhÄuser
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TANNHAUSER tan hoiz r, 13th cent., German minnesinger , whose adventurous wanderings became the subject of legend. Sixteen of his own lyrics are extant, including Buszlied ( Song...
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Walther Von Der Vogelweide
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE val t r f n der fo g lvi d , c.1170 c.1230, German minnesinger of noble birth, probably the finest lyric poet of medieval Germany. He wandered from court to court singing songs for which he...
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Novalis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...von Ofterdingen (1802), unfinished at the time of his early death from tuberculosis. It tells the story of a legendary minnesinger, whose wanderings and search for a "blue flower" became symbols of German romantic poetry. Novaliss grief at the death...
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Reinmar Von Zweter
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
REINMAR VON ZWETER tsva t r, c.1200 c.1260, German minnesinger . He is best known for his Spruche, short and often satirical verses on politics, religion, morals, and courtly love...
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