min’im

minima (mé/-ni-md), I., mini me (min-ém’), F. A _half-note. Vide NOTATION. Minnedichter (min’-né-dikh’-tér), M.sanger (zéng-ér), M.-singer (zingér), G. From the 12th to the 14th century a German troubadour of noble birth celebrating pure love in song (Minne-gesang). The singers wrote both words and music, singing and playing on the arpanetta or the viol. Their festivals of contest are reproduced in Wagner’s ‘‘ Tannhéuser.” They were le formulaic than their succe or the “‘Meister singer.”’ In the opera of the latter name, Wagner (vide Stories of the Operas in this book) shows Walter the Minnesinger, in conflict with the dogmas of the Meister singer.