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 GOLIARD - LoveToKnow Article on GOLIARD
It is doubtful, too, if the jocular references to the rules of the gild of goliards should be taken too seriously, though their aping of the orders of the church, especially their contrasting them with the mendicants, was too bold for church synods.
The goliard poems are as truly medieval as the monastic life which they despised; they merely voice another section of humanity.
The word goliard itself outlived these turbulent bands which had given it birth, and passed over into French and English literature of the 14th century in the general meaning of jongleur or minstrel, quite apart from any clerical association.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GO/GOLIARD.htm   (1245 words)

  
 Goliard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They were mainly clerical students at the universities of France, Germany, Italy, and England who protested the growing contradictions within the Church, such as the failure of the crusades and financial abuses, expressing themselves through song, poetry and performance.
They were the subject of numerous Church councils, notably in 1289 where it was ordered "no clerks shall be jongleurs, goliards or buffons" and in 1300 at Cologne when they were forbidden to preach or engage in the indulgence traffic.
The Goliards have literary significance in that they wrote Latin verse in a more natural stress-based prosody and helped free Latin from the Procrustean bed of Greek prosody.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goliard   (706 words)

  
 Goliard -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Goliards used sacred sources like texts from the (Click link for more info and facts about Roman Catholic Mass) Roman Catholic Mass and Latin (A song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation)) hymns and warped them to secular and satirical purposes in their poems.
In 1229 goliards played a part in disturbances at the (A university in Paris; intellectual center of France) University of Paris in connection with intrigues of the (Click link for more info and facts about papal legate) papal legate.
The Goliards are significant in literature in that they wrote Latin verse in a more natural stress-based (The patterns of stress and intonation in a language) prosody and helped free Latin from the (Click link for more info and facts about Procrustean bed) Procrustean bed of (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek prosody.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Go/Goliard.htm   (710 words)

  
 Goliardic Verse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The secular poetry of the Goliards ought to serve as a counter-balance to the age of faith, just as the literature of the Beat generation of the 1950s ought to counter-balance the claim that the 1950s was an age of bland conformity.
Goliardic verse developed with the beginning of European universities in the 12th century.
The Goliard poets are said to have been the followers of the tribe of Golias.
www.historyguide.org /ancient/goliard_b.html   (241 words)

  
 The Real Goliards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The original goliards were students and clerics in France, England, and Germany who basically did then what students do now: thumbed their collective noses at the power structure, in their case the Church.
As a lark I typed in "Goliard" in the
The Goliard Trio who have mp3 files available for download at mp3.com, to what I was looking for - information on the historical goliards, including poetry written by actual goliards.
infohost.nmt.edu /~golias/goliard.html   (585 words)

  
 Goliard: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Goliard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Goliards were a group of students and clergy who wrote bibulous, satirical Latin poetry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
It was meant to suggest their pose as heavy drinking yet learned students who lampooned the ecclesiastical and political establishment.
The Goliards are significant in that they wrote Latin verse in a more natural stress-based prosody and helped free Latin from the Procustean bed of Greek prosody.
www.encyclopedian.com /go/Goliard.html   (230 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Goliard
Walter of Châtillon was a twelfth century French writer and theologian who wrote in the Latin language.
Prosody may mean several things: Prosody consists of distinctive variations of stress, tone, and timing in spoken language.
Sequence can refer to: sequence, a logical and mathematical notion In biochemistry, a biopolymers sequence is synonymous with its primary structure: the list of basic building blocks constituting the polymer (for example a DNA sequence).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Goliard   (1877 words)

  
 GOLIARD - Online Information article about GOLIARD
Germany, during the 12th and 13th centuries, who were better known for their rioting, gambling and intemperance than for their scholarship.
It is doubtful, too, if the jocular references to the rules of the "gild" of goliards should be taken too seriously, though their aping of the " orders " of the See also:
The goliard poems are as truly " medieval " as the monastic life which they despised; they merely See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /GOA_GRA/GOLIARD.html   (933 words)

  
 Goliard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Por ejemplo en St. Remy los goliards fueron a formarse en la procesión cada uno que arrastraba un arenque en una secuencia a lo largo de la conexión a tierra, el juego que debía caminar en los arenques en parte delantera y evitar sus propios arenques de ser pisado sobre.
Las fuentes sagradas usadas Goliards como los textos de los himnos totales y latinos católicos y los combaron a los propósitos seculares y satíricos en sus poemas.
La palabra "goliard" sobrevivió al significado original y pasó sobre en la literatura francesa e inglesa del 14to siglo que significaba generalmente jongleur o minstrel que vagaba, relacionada no más de largo con su asociación administrativa original.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/go/Goliard.htm   (766 words)

  
 GOLIARD CONCERTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Goliard Concerts made its Lincoln Center debut in 1992 under the auspices of the Mostly Mozart Festival and returned in 1996 as part of a concert version of Leonard Bernstein's "On the Town" featuring artists from the Metropolitan Opera and New York City Opera.
In addition to its formal concert appearances, Goliard Concerts performs in parks and senior centers throughout the city bringing a variety of music from Broadway to barbershop to brass quartet and piano trio to new audiences.
Each year Goliard also sponsors a Composer-in-Residence commissioning at least one new work and giving emerging and established talents a forum to presenta body of work from throughout their careers.
www.goliardconcerts.com   (227 words)

  
 LaGrange College
The Goliard Ensemble is based in New York City, and tours throughout the Southeast each season presenting concerts, masterclasses, workshops and school performances in residencies at universities, art centers and schools.
Goliard will professionally record each submission and then select two of the works to perform at the Feb. 12 concert.
Known for its imaginative programming, The Goliard Ensemble has appeared in such venues as Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall and the Brooklyn Museum.
www.lagrange.edu /primary.cfm?linkid=1185   (287 words)

  
 The Goliard - Hiatus - May and June 2004
The Goliard staff has designated themselves as worthy of taking a well deserved break from the scratching out of doggerel in order to do a little research for future issues.
When some of the Goliard staff first moved up to Seattle back in the early 90's, we did so as die hard, tried and true Boston Red Sox fans.
Shite list is a new feature of the Goliard where staff members and readers alike may post names of people who have either committed some egregious act against them personally which is deserving of public mention, or are public figures which have fallen out of favor to the point where a feature story
www.thegoliard.net /issues/may04.htm   (556 words)

  
 What it is   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Goliard Scholarship is a whimsical effort by the Goliard Board to encourage an international understanding in Rice University's leaders of tomorrow.
The University is steeped in a deep tradition of training of study of theory, close examination of the relevant literature, construction of solutions to hypothetical problems, and of course lecture-style give-and-take.
Such students might, upon waking in a suite in SRC or a room in Jones or perhaps that little efficiency off Montrose, imagine eating a stuffed bollito from a street vendor in a small town in the silver-mining mountains of Mexico, or strolling in the brisk breeze and strong sunlight of Istanbul.
www.ruf.rice.edu /~goliard/what_it_is.htm   (339 words)

  
 Katherine Kuster: Turkey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Steger, the 1999 recipient of the Goliard Travel Scholarship, will spend the summer following the Yangtze River and the route of Edgar Geil, who 100 years ago traveled on the back of the Yangtze from Shanghai, through the treacherous Three Gorges to Chonquing located far in the rugged interior of China.
The Goliard is a summer travel scholarship with a value of $1,000 plus the cost of an airline ticket.
The award is funded by the Board of Governors of the Goliard Scholarship Fund, members of Sid Richardson College and the class of 1983.
www.ruf.rice.edu /~goliard/Scholars/1999.ryan.steger.htm   (313 words)

  
 WMPC Press Release No. 1
Osprey has stretched a ten mile lead over second place Cha-Ching in division E. The Santa Cruz 50 dominated Division E is experiencing lead changes as Walter Pressel’s Lina has passed 1998 winner Bob Nance’s White Caps by over a dozen miles while becoming the fleet leader on handicap.
In that Goliard is has been functioning in a dual role of competitor in division B as well as providing the communication to these Hawaiian shores from whence we disseminate stuff, we felt a momentary drat.
There was no other communication from what is known as the “communication” boat so we surmise that the telecommunications domination of commerce in the Bay Area probably has outweighed raw trophy lust.
www.pacificcup.org /00/sc_prel6.html   (560 words)

  
 The Goliard - May 2003
In the latest of a string of stunning developments that have been plaguing this infernal publication recently, this one carrying ramifications that were still trickling down the Goliard’s collective leg at press time, it has come to light that some of your favorite characters at the Goliard may not be...
It has been brought to our attention that some of the pictures, which were supplied by a certain member of the West coast staff to accompany supposed Goliard bylines, are not, in fact, accurate representations of those doing the actual writing.
Needless to say this caught everyone (except, of course, the one nefarious staffer directly involved in the caper) by complete surprise, and has led to a volatile newsroom situation rife with finger pointing, back stabbing, chest thumping, grab assing and ad libbing.
www.thegoliard.net /issues/may03.htm   (755 words)

  
 Cline Library - Help
The story that comes out while you are sitting in a dark bar somewhere, when you are cracking a beer as the water from a moving river swirls around your ankles, or you are sitting on a patio somewhere trying to avoid the party goers inside.
Anyway I digress, there are interesting people out there who are currently librarians, So I will stop here and just link to the Goliard response of a fairly humorous editorial on Library Science.
In doing this I hope to also give a plug to the Goliard, which indicates that are sense of self is not tied to how we pay the bills.
jan.ucc.nau.edu /~kgk/misc/obal.htm   (707 words)

  
 Hanna Owen Productions | Artists | Search | Results | Detail | Arrielle Levioff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Following the festival this season, she joined the principal players of the Goliard Ensemble in a three week tour of the Southeastern United States, performing and working with young music students in West Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama.
The Goliard is a New York based chamber group known for its diverse repertoire and variety on instrumental and vocal combinations.
Among the Goliard Ensemble players is violinist Leonid Yanovsky, a member of the Philadelphia Virtuosi and the Orchestra of St. Luke in New York City.
www.hannaowen.com /controlPanel/artistPage.asp?offset=-1&ArtistLastName=Levioff   (327 words)

  
 LaGrange College
The performance will encompass a variety of other music, from classical to modern, chamber to opera, including "Divertimento for Horn, Violin and Cello" by Joseph Haydn, "Stranger in Paradise" by Wright and Forrest-Borodin and "Trio in C Minor" by Johannes Brahms.
The Goliard Southeastern Music Festival brings some of New York's most talented musicians to the Southeast for a three-week residency.
The Festival is sponsored by Goliard Concerts, a New York-based not-for-profit corporation, which brings creative musical programming and outstanding musical artists to the public.
www.lagrange.edu /primary.cfm?linkid=585   (277 words)

  
 Recycling program under evaluation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Erin Popelka ’03, Goliard Editor in Chief, said, "I was thinking that the Goliard magazine is for and by artists and we were leaving out a whole section of campus.
The Goliard will accept all types of music from original compositions to group performances.
The Goliard is for the whole student body.
www.wooster.edu /voice/20030124/ae_goliard.html   (427 words)

  
 The Auburn Plainsman Online
The 110-voice Auburn Concert Choir accompanied the Goliard Southeastern Music Festival in performing a variety of chamber music pieces and portions of Handel's Messiah at Lakeview Baptist Church.
Wilkins said the goals of Goliard are to perform diverse programming for an audience who regularly does not get to experience musical variety.
When not on tour, the Goliard performers are involved in outreach programs around the Queens area of New York, where its headquarters is located.
www.auburn.edu /student_info/plainsman/archives/98FA/1105/1105choir.html   (534 words)

  
 GWU Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Performing a chamber music concert, the group is scheduled to perform at 8:00 PM in the Blanton Auditorium on the GWU campus.
The Goliard ensemble consists of not only the composer, but a tenor, a hornist, a pianist, a violinist, and a cellist, as well, all of whom have traveled extensively and performed with various symphonies and recitals from around the world.
The Goliard Southeastern Music Group, which began in 1993, is a critically acclaimed arts organization with a national presence.
www.gardner-webb.edu /news/news119.shtml   (261 words)

  
 The Goliard Blog
What this writer is curious to know is whether the calls for Christianity to "shut up" about sex—and worse, the viciousness directed at "dinosaurs" like the Pope who articulate a different view—is just an example of the Left's typical intolerance of those who dare to think differently, or whether something deeper lies behind it.
Your humble Goliard has been watching more television news than is healthy in recent weeks on account of the war, and so it is high time for another TV-news rant.
So your humble goliard has been saying these last few weeks, as Blogger refused to publish like it should, and no help could be found.
goliard.blogspot.com   (2339 words)

  
 Birmingham-Southern to present classical music concert by New York ensemble   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
BSC professor of music Dr. Charles Mason’s new composition A Completed Portrait of Picasso, written from the setting of a Gertrude Stein poem and recently premiered in New York, will be included in both concerts.
Mason is the 2003-04 composer-in-residence for this season’s Goliard Ensemble performances, which feature the violin, cello, piano, bassoon, and tenor.
The Goliard Ensemble, established in 1983, tours throughout the Southeastern U.S. each year to present concerts, master classes, and workshops to colleges and universities, art centers, and schools.
www.bsc.edu /communications/news/archives/goliard_101003.htm   (244 words)

  
 The Goliard - March 2003
In a totally unexpected development that has the Goliard staff reeling, the Movie Man, shown at right becoming increasingly infatuated with the person who called herself Mrs.
of the last days of a man who was easily the most recognizable figure at the Goliard and leaves a void that will not be easy to fill.
She agreed to talk to the Goliard in hopes that someone might read of her experience and take their own precautions.
www.thegoliard.net /issues/march03.htm   (784 words)

  
 The Goliard - November 2002
Ed's Note - Since the above story broke on the Goliard on November 1, 41 of John Mackovic's players have gone en masse to the office of the University president to discuss their disappointment with his coaching style and object to his unpleasant personality.
But instead of firing La BM and starting anew, athletic director Jim Livengood chose to stand by his coach despite the national embarrassment the situation is creating.
The Goliard disapproves of this move of course and would ask the UA to reconsider.
www.thegoliard.net /issues/november02.htm   (802 words)

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