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n. (plural of droll English)
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Drolls is a Russian early music ensemble formed in 1999 and playing its own interpretation of Medieval and Renaissance music. Their repertoire includes music and songs from across the Europe. The name of the ensemble refers to a droll, a short comical sketch of a type that originated during the Puritan Interregnum in England.
Though mainly focused on European music, Drolls also have Russian music of the 11th-18th centuries in their repertoire. The idea came to them when members of the ensemble participated in the screening of “ Alexander. Nevskaya Bitva” movie, in which Drolls played skomorokhs and took part in recording music for the movie. In December 2007 Drolls presented their new concert program "Люди Веселы" ( Skomorokhs) in Moscow.
Usage examples of "drolls".
Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies.
Hunt's Drolls from the West of England has nothing distinctively Celtic, and it is only by a chance Lhuyd chose a folk-tale as his specimen of Cornish in his Archaeologia Britannica, 1709 (see Tale of Ivan).
The Irish Grimm, however, was Patrick Kennedy, a Dublin bookseller, who believed in fairies, and in five years (1866 - 71) printed about 100 folk and hero-tales and drolls (classes 2, 3, and 4 above) in his Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, 1866, Fireside Stories of Ireland, 1870, and Bardic Stories of Ireland 1871.
It is to be observed that one of the earliest popular drolls in Europe, Unibos, a Latin poem of the eleventh, and perhaps the tenth, century.
It is indeed impossible to think these are disconnected, and for drolls of this kind a good case has been made out for the borrowing hypotheses by M.
Dixon staring in comick Dismay down toward his Penis, as he has seen Market-place Drolls do.
Every night around the fire I had heard and relished more ludicrous accounts than mine, among the drolls and jongleurs of the Wanderers.
He has written some Iambic Drolls, with a lightness, a humorous Turn, a Beauty, and a Diction, that are all perfect in the kind.
Both sides of the road were lined with shops and booths, in which the jugglers, drolls, dancers, and mimics of Carnatic displayed their feats and skill to amuse passengers.