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104 relations: Air de cour, Antoine Boësset, Art song, Édith Piaf, Édouard Lalo, Ballade (forme fixe), Barbara (singer), Bénabar, Benjamin Biolay, Burgundy, Cabaret, Café-chantant, Canso (song), Canzone, Chanson pour boire, Chanson réaliste, Chansonnier, Charles Aznavour, Charles Trenet, Claude Debussy, Claudin de Sermisy, Clément Janequin, Courtly love, Crusade song, Dalida, Daniel Darc, Denis Gaultier, Dominique A, Emmanuel Chabrier, Epic poetry, Ernest Chausson, Félicien David, Formes fixes, France, Franz Schubert, Fréhel, Gabriel Fauré, Genitive case, Georges Brassens, Gilles Binchois, Glossary of French expressions in English, Guillaume de Machaut, Guillaume Du Fay, Guy Béart, Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, Homophony, Jacques Brel, Jean Ferrat, Jean-Louis Murat, Johannes Ockeghem, ..., Josquin des Prez, Late Middle Ages, Latin, Léo Ferré, Lied, Louis Niedermeyer, Lyrics, Madrigal, Mano Solo, Marie-Louise Damien, Mathieu Boogaerts, Matthieu Chedid, Maurane, Mélodie, Melody, Michel Lambert, Michel Richard Delalande, Minstrel, Miossec, Mireille Mathieu, Monophony, Montmartre, Motet, Musical instrument, Nouvelle Chanson, Occitan language, Old French, Olivia Ruiz, Opera, Orlande de Lassus, Ottaviano Petrucci, Paris, Philippe Verdelot, Pierre Attaingnant, Pierre Certon, Polyphony, Refrain, Renaissance, Renan Luce, Renaud, Rondeau (forme fixe), Russian chanson, Salon music, Secularity, Serge Gainsbourg, Serge Reggiani, Sonata, Song, The Song of Roland, Trouvère, Vincent Delerm, Virelai, William Sheller, Zaz (singer). Expand index (54 more) »
Air de cour
The Air de cour was a popular type of secular vocal music in France in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period, from about 1570 until around 1650.
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Antoine Boësset
Antoine Boësset, Antoine Boesset or Anthoine de Boesset (1586 – 8 December 1643), sieur de Villedieu, was the superintendent of music at the Ancien Régime French court and a composer of secular music, particularly airs de cour.
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Art song
An art song is a vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition.
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Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf (19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963; nee Édith Giovanna Gassion) was a French singer, songwriter, cabaret performer and film actress noted as France's national chanteuse and one of the country's most widely known international stars.
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Édouard Lalo
Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo (27 January 182322 April 1892) was a French composer.
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Ballade (forme fixe)
The ballade (not to be confused with the ballad) is a form of medieval and Renaissance French poetry as well as the corresponding musical chanson form.
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Barbara (singer)
Monique Andrée Serf (June 9, 1930 – November 24, 1997), whose stage name was Barbara, was a French singer.
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Bénabar
Bruno Nicolini (born 16 June 1969), better known by his stage name Bénabar, is a French songwriter and singer, who could be compared to Vincent Delerm and other singers from his generation.
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Benjamin Biolay
Benjamin Biolay (born 20 January 1973) is a French singer, songwriter, musician, actor and record producer.
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Burgundy
Burgundy (Bourgogne) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France.
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Cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.
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Café-chantant
Café chantant (French: lit. "singing café"), café-concert or caf’conc, is a type of musical establishment associated with the belle époque in France.
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Canso (song)
The canso or canson or canzo was a song style used by the troubadours; it was, by far, the most common genre used, especially by early troubadours; only in the second half of the 13th century would its dominance be challenged by a growing number of poets writing coblas esparsas.
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Canzone
Literally "song" in Italian, a canzone (plural: canzoni; cognate with English to chant) is an Italian or Provençal song or ballad.
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Chanson pour boire
Chanson pour boire is a term for a French drinking song, frequently coupled with chanson pour danser (or "song for dancing").
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Chanson réaliste
Chanson réaliste (realist song) refers to a style of music performed in France primarily from the 1880s until the end of World War II.
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Chansonnier
A chansonnier (cançoner, cançonièr, Galician and cancioneiro, canzoniere or canzoniéro, cancionero) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings of songs, hence literally "song-books," although some manuscripts are so called even though they preserve the text but not the music (for example, the Cancioneiro da Vaticana and Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, which contain the bulk of Galician-Portuguese lyric).
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Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour (born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian, Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնավուրեան; 22 May 1924) is a French, later naturalised Armenian, singer, lyricist, actor, public activist and diplomat.
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Charles Trenet
Louis Charles Auguste Claude Trenet, known as Charles Trenet (18 May 1913 – 19 February 2001), was a French singer and songwriter.
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Claude Debussy
Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer.
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Claudin de Sermisy
Claudin de Sermisy (c. 1490 – 13 October 1562) was a French composer of the Renaissance.
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Clément Janequin
Clément Janequin (c. 1485 – 1558) was a French composer of the Renaissance.
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Courtly love
Courtly love (or fin'amor in Occitan) was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry.
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Crusade song
A Crusade song (canson de crozada, cançó de croada, Kreuzlied) is any vernacular lyric poem about the Crusades.
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Dalida
Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), better known as Dalida (داليدا), was a French-Italian-Egyptian singer and actress who spent most of her career in France.
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Daniel Darc
Daniel Rozoum (20 May 1959 - 28 February 2013), known as Daniel Darc, was a French singer, who achieved success with his band Taxi Girl (together with Mirwais Ahmadzaï) between 1978 and 1986, and also as a solo artist.
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Denis Gaultier
Denis Gaultier (Gautier, Gaulthier; also known as Gaultier le jeune and Gaultier de Paris) (1597 or 1602/3 – 1672) was a French lutenist and composer.
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Dominique A
Dominique Ané (born 6 October 1968), better known as "Dominique A", is a French songwriter and singer.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier (January 18, 1841September 13, 1894) was a French Romantic composer and pianist.
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Epic poetry
An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the moral universe that their descendants, the poet and his audience, must understand to understand themselves as a people or nation.
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Ernest Chausson
Amédée-Ernest Chausson (20 January 1855 – 10 June 1899) was a French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish.
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Félicien David
Félicien-César David (13 April 1810 – 29 August 1876) was a French composer.
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Formes fixes
The formes fixes (singular forme fixe, "fixed form") are the three fourteenth- and fifteenth-centuries French poetic forms: the ballade, rondeau and virelai.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.
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Fréhel
Fréhel (born Marguerite Boulc'h; 13 July 1891 – 3 February 1951) was a French singer and actress.
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Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher.
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Genitive case
In grammar, the genitive (abbreviated); also called the second case, is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun.
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Georges Brassens
Georges Brassens (22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981) was a French singer-songwriter and poet.
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Gilles Binchois
Gilles de Binche (called Binchois; also known as Gilles de Bins; ca. 1400 – 20 September 1460), was a Netherlandish composer, one of the earliest members of the Burgundian school and one of the three most famous composers of the early 15th century.
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Glossary of French expressions in English
Around 45% of English vocabulary is of French origin, most coming from the Anglo-Norman spoken by the upper classes in England for several hundred years after the Norman Conquest, before the language settled into what became Modern English.
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Guillaume de Machaut
Guillaume de Machaut (sometimes spelled Machault; c. 1300 – April 1377) was a medieval French poet and composer.
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Guillaume Du Fay
Guillaume Du Fay (also Dufay, Du Fayt; 5 August, c. 1397; accessed June 23, 2015. – 27 November 1474) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the early Renaissance.
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Guy Béart
Guy Béhart-Hasson (16 July 1930 – 16 September 2015), known as Guy Béart, was a French singer and songwriter.
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Harmonice Musices Odhecaton
The Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (One Hundred Songs of Harmonic Music, also known simply as the Odhecaton) was an anthology of polyphonic secular songs published by Ottaviano Petrucci in 1501 in Venice.
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Homophony
In music, homophony (Greek: ὁμόφωνος, homóphōnos, from ὁμός, homós, "same" and φωνή, phōnē, "sound, tone") is a texture in which a primary part is supported by one or more additional strands that flesh out the harmony and often provide rhythmic contrast.
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Jacques Brel
Jacques Romain Georges Brel (8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer, songwriter, poet, actor and director who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, later throughout the world.
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Jean Ferrat
Jean Ferrat (born Jean Tenenbaum, 26 December 1930 – 13 March 2010) was a French singer-songwriter and poet.
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Jean-Louis Murat
Jean-Louis Murat (born 28 January 1952) is the pseudonym of the French singer/songwriter Jean-Louis Bergheaud. He spent much of his childhood with his grandparents in Murat-le-Quaire from which he got his pseudonym.
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Johannes Ockeghem
Johannes Ockeghem (also Jean de, Jan; surname Okeghem, Ogkegum, Okchem, Hocquegam, Ockegham; other variant spellings are also encountered) (1410/1425 – February 6,Brown & Stein, p61. 1497) was the most famous composer of the Franco-Flemish School in the last half of the 15th century, and is often considered the most influential composer between Guillaume Dufay and Josquin des Prez.
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Josquin des Prez
Josquin des Prez (– 27 August 1521), often referred to simply as Josquin, was a French composer of the Renaissance.
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Late Middle Ages
The Late Middle Ages or Late Medieval Period was the period of European history lasting from 1250 to 1500 AD.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Léo Ferré
Léo Ferré (24 August 1916 – 14 July 1993) was a French-born Monégasque poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer, whose career in France dominated the years after the Second World War until his death.
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Lied
The lied (plural lieder;, plural, German for "song") is a setting of a German poem to classical music.
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Louis Niedermeyer
Abraham Louis Niedermeyer (27 April 180214 March 1861) was a composer chiefly of church music but also of a few operas, and a teacher who took over the École Choron, duly renamed École Niedermeyer, a school for the study and practice of church music, where several eminent French musicians studied including Gabriel Fauré and André Messager.
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Lyrics
Lyrics are words that make up a song usually consisting of verses and choruses.
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Madrigal
A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras.
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Mano Solo
Mano Solo (24 April 1963 – 10 January 2010), born Emmanuel Cabut, was a French singer.
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Marie-Louise Damien
Marie-Louise Damien (5 December 1889 – 30 January 1978), better known by the stage name Damia, was a French singer and actress.
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Mathieu Boogaerts
Mathieu Boogaerts (born 1970 in Fontenay-sous-Bois), is a French singer-songwriter.
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Matthieu Chedid
Matthieu Chedid (born 21 December 1971), better known by his stage name -M-, is a French rock singer-songwriter and guitar player.
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Maurane
Claudine Luypaerts, better known as Maurane (12 November 1960 – 7 May 2018), was a Belgian singer and actress.
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Mélodie
A mélodie is a French art song.
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Melody
A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.
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Michel Lambert
Michel Lambert (1610 – 29 June 1696) was a French singing master, theorbist and composer.
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Michel Richard Delalande
Michel Richard Delalande (15 December 1657 – 18 June 1726) was a French Baroque composer and organist who was in the service of King Louis XIV.
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Minstrel
A minstrel was a medieval European entertainer.
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Miossec
Christophe Miossec is a French singer and songwriter born in Brest, Brittany, France on December 24, 1964.
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Mireille Mathieu
Mireille Mathieu (born 22 July 1946) is a French singer.
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Monophony
In music, monophony is the simplest of musical textures, consisting of a melody (or "tune"), typically sung by a single singer or played by a single instrument player (e.g., a flute player) without accompanying harmony or chords.
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Montmartre
Montmartre is a large hill in Paris's 18th arrondissement.
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Motet
In western music, a motet is a mainly vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from the late medieval era to the present.
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Musical instrument
A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Nouvelle Chanson
Nouvelle Chanson (meaning "New Song"), derived from the French expression nouvelle scène française, sometimes anglicized as New Chanson, is a musical genre of Chanson which emerged in France in the 1990s and developed in the 2000s.
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Occitan language
Occitan, also known as lenga d'òc (langue d'oc) by its native speakers, is a Romance language.
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Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; Modern French: ancien français) was the language spoken in Northern France from the 8th century to the 14th century.
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Olivia Ruiz
Olivia Blanc (born 1 January 1980), known as Olivia Ruiz, is a female French pop singer of partial Spanish descent belonging to the nouvelle chanson genre.
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Opera
Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.
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Orlande de Lassus
Orlande de Lassus (also Roland de Lassus, Orlando di Lasso, Orlandus Lassus, Orlande de Lattre or Roland de Lattre; 1532, possibly 1530 – 14 June 1594) was a Netherlandish or Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance.
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Ottaviano Petrucci
Ottaviano Petrucci (born in Fossombrone on 18 June 1466 – died on 7 May 1539 in Venice) was an Italian printer.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.
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Philippe Verdelot
Philippe Verdelot (1480 to 1485–c. 1530 to 1532?) was a French composer of the Renaissance, who spent most of his life in Italy.
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Pierre Attaingnant
Pierre Attaingnant (or Attaignant) (c. 1494 – late 1551 or 1552) was a French music publisher, active in Paris.
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Pierre Certon
Pierre Certon (ca. 1510–1520 – February 23, 1572) was a French composer of the Renaissance.
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Polyphony
In music, polyphony is one type of musical texture, where a texture is, generally speaking, the way that melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic aspects of a musical composition are combined to shape the overall sound and quality of the work.
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Refrain
A refrain (from Vulgar Latin refringere, "to repeat", and later from Old French refraindre) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the "chorus" of a song.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.
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Renan Luce
Renan Luce (born 5 March 1980, Paris) is a French singer and songwriter.
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Renaud
Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan, known as Renaud (born 11 May 1952), is a popular French singer, songwriter and actor.
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Rondeau (forme fixe)
A rondeau (plural rondeaux) is a form of medieval and Renaissance French poetry, as well as the corresponding musical chanson form.
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Russian chanson
Russian chanson (r; from French "chanson") is a neologism for a musical genre covering a range of Russian songs, including city romance songs, author song performed by singer-songwriters, and Blatnaya Pesnya or "criminals' songs" that are based on the themes of the urban underclass and the criminal underworld.
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Salon music
Salon music was a popular music genre in Europe during the 19th century.
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Secularity
Secularity (adjective form secular, from Latin saeculum meaning "worldly", "of a generation", "temporal", or a span of about 100 years) is the state of being separate from religion, or of not being exclusively allied with or against any particular religion.
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Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg (born Lucien Ginsburg;; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor, and director.
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Serge Reggiani
Serge Reggiani (2 May 1922 – 23 July 2004) was an Italian-born French singer and actor.
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Sonata
Sonata (Italian:, pl. sonate; from Latin and Italian: sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian cantare, "to sing"), a piece sung.
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Song
A song, most broadly, is a single (and often standalone) work of music that is typically intended to be sung by the human voice with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections.
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The Song of Roland
The Song of Roland (La Chanson de Roland) is an epic poem (Chanson de geste) based on the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne.
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Trouvère
Trouvère, sometimes spelled trouveur, is the Northern French (langue d'oïl) form of the langue d'oc (Occitan) word trobador.
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Vincent Delerm
Vincent Delerm (born 31 August 1976) is a French singer-songwriter, pianist and composer.
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Virelai
A virelai is a form of medieval French verse used often in poetry and music.
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William Sheller
William Sheller (born William Hand on 9 July 1946) is a French classical composer and singer-songwriter.
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Zaz (singer)
Isabelle Geffroy (born 1 May 1980 in Tours, France), better known by the nickname Zaz, is a French singer-songwriter who mixes jazzy styles, French variety, soul and acoustic.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanson
