troubadour

1 Thrill to Dylan, a troubadour with a white-smeared face and a peacock feather in his wide-brimmed hat, as he electrifies and sometimes confuses audiences with his melodious musings.

2 Mr. Hiatt, 61, has had no problem acclimating to the elder-statesman phase of his esteemed troubadour career, in which the blues always cohabited with country, folk and rock ’n’ roll.

3 That's not a new phenomenon: Popular singers from early English troubadours to American gangsta rappers have treated violent outlaws sympathetically.

4 These songs were shaped by the poetic metre of their lyrics, and consequently most of the troubadour songs, even the sad ones, have a gentle, foot-tapping pulse.

5 At old concerts, when she would sit behind a piano, belting out songs, her future life as a troubadour — a Billy Joel, or even an Elton John — seemed almost etched in stone.

6 At that time in the United States, the Chicano civil rights movement was blossoming, and mariachi musicians morphed from folksy troubadours to cultural heroes, “symbols of Mexican identity heightened here because of multiculturalism,” Sheehy added.

7 For Green, though — a solo troubadour who came out of the punk underground — the mind-meld was "a very moving experience."

8 Eyes up here, everyone, look at this radical troubadour, handsome and lifelike as a Velasquez painting.

9 Minnesota’s bluegrass troubadours Trampled by Turtles arrive June 27 with fellow animal-named Americana rockers Deer Tick.

10 The grizzled troubadour with the outlandish voice and even more outlandish mind continues to produce brilliant work.

11 Mr. Denk played troubadour songs and excerpts from sacred works by several medieval composers, in his own arrangements.

12 "In the old days," she says, "there were a lot of lone male troubadours but hardly any women."

13 Occitan, the language of the troubadours, is greatly endangered as it slips from everyday use in Provence, Gascony and the Languedoc.

14 Donne was working with an old tradition, the Provencal Alba or dawn poem, that had been popular with the troubadour poets of the high middle ages, but the English poet adds his own twist.

15 Advertisement Adapted from a 13th-century troubadour’s tale, the story the angels tell centers on a wealthy landowner, the Protector, and his obedient younger wife, Agnès, whom he describes as his “property.”

16 Her bright voice fills my room like the music of a lute, and she is like a troubadour with her tales, though none are bawdy or bad.

17 Namwali Serpell’s audacious first novel, “The Old Drift,” is narrated in small part by a swarm of mosquitoes — “thin troubadours, the bare ruinous choir” — who declare themselves “man’s greatest nemesis.”

18 How about asking early music ensembles to perform troubadour songs?

19 Roughly a year later, the young beatbox troubadour sold out the Nokia Theatre on his 22nd birthday -- capacity 7,100.

20 "Marrying the introspection of the nocturnal stoner with the exploration of a troubadour frontiersman" – Matador press release.

1 吟游诗人

jockey bard minstrel minstrelsy jongleur rhapsode gleeman rhapsodist minnesinger bardic scop

2 诗人

poetic maker poet swan bard songster bulbul rhymester

3 行吟诗人

trouvère

4 民谣歌手

balladeer

5 抒情诗人

lyricist lyrist