Tagelied

English Alternative forms en tagelied Noun Tagelieder en music poetry historical A medieval German lyric genre, popular from the 13th to 16th centuries, focusing on the painful separation of lovers at dawn. en 1902 Outlines of the History of German Literature John George Robertson 18 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. en 1912 Masters in Modern German Literature Otto Eduard Lessing 51 But his instinct for the different shades of atmosphere, light, color, sound is infinitely finer. His Tagelieder are the most exquisite of their kind. en 1976 The Oxford Companion To German Literature Henry Burnand Garland, Mary Garland 320 His poems include a Tagelied (q.v.) of exceptional length, the style of which exhibits popular as well as courtly elements. en Glenn Yeffeth James Bond in the 21st Century 2009 BenBella Books, Inc. 9781935251583 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. See also en alba aubade Further reading