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Tagelied en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (historical) A medieval German lyric genre, popular from the 13th to 16th centuries, focusing on the painful separation of lovers at dawn.
   • But his instinct for the different shades of atmosphere, light, color, sound is infinitely finer. His Tagelieder are the most exquisite of their kind. 1912, Otto Eduard Lessing, Masters in Modern German Literature, page 51:
   • The early aubades and tagelieder in particular are just full of noble knights who nonetheless are a rather randy lot and never pass up the chance for a good roll in the hay with an unhappily married noblewoman. 2009, Glenn Yeffeth, editor, James Bond in the 21st Century, BenBella Books, Inc., →ISBN:
   • Kürenberg composed in a form of strophe similar to that of the Nibelungenlied, while Dietmar von Aist has given us the earliest German "Tagelied," that is to say, a poem analogous to the Provençal "alba" or French "aubade", in which two lovers are warned of the approach of dawn. 1902, John George Robertson, Outlines of the History of German Literature, page 18:
   • His poems include a Tagelied (q.v.) of exceptional length, the style of which exhibits popular as well as courtly elements. 1976, Henry Burnand Garland, Mary Garland, The Oxford Companion To German Literature, page 320:

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aubade · alba