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Definition of Mastersingers
1. mastersinger [n] - See also: mastersinger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mastersingers
Literary usage of Mastersingers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Victrola Book of the Opera: Stories of the Operas with Illustrations by Samuel Holland Rous, Victor Talking Machine Company (1921)
"But it is Hans Sachs, the chief of the mastersingers, who is the real hero.
He is an historical personage, as indeed was Beckmesser also, and Wagner beheld ..."
2. Wagner and His Works: The Story of His Life, with Critical Comments by Henry Theophilus Finck (1893)
"STORY OF THE mastersingers In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries poetry and song
... One of the chief seats of these mastersingers was Nuremberg, which, ..."
3. A Short History of German Literature by James Kendall Hosmer (1879)
"THE mastersingers. Let us turn now to the poetry which, ... this period of decline,
is at any rate the most characteristic,—the work of the mastersingers. ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"Mus Q 3:390-409 Jl 47 Nuremberg and its mastersingers. Musician 21:719-21 D '16
Hughes, Hugh J. Enough—and none to spare. R of Rs 56:176-7 Ag 47 Kings; ..."
5. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... an exquisite Through these streets so broad and stately, these obscure and
dismal lanes, Walked of yore the mastersingers, chanting rude poetic strains. ..."
6. A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1919)
"In fact, I am strongly tempted to believe that with the exception of Sachs himself,
Beckmesser was the best of the mastersingers of the Nuremberg school: ..."
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