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chansons de geste
chansons de geste [Fr.,=songs of deeds], a group of epic poems of medieval France written from the 11th through the 13th cent. Varying in length from 1,000 to 20,000 lines, assonanced or (in the 13th cent.) rhymed, the poems were composed by trouvères and were grouped in cycles about some gr... Read more
Gilles Binchois
Gilles Binchois , c.1400-1460, Flemish composer. From about 1430 until his death Binchois served Philip the Good of Burgundy. His secular chansons are considered his best work. The 15th-century theorist Tinctoris ranked him with Dufay and Dunstable. ... Read more
Jacob Arcadelt
Jacob Arcadelt , c.1505-1568, Flemish composer, b. Liège. He spent much of his time at the Papal court in Rome. After 1555 he was in Paris in the service of the duke of Guise. Arcadelt was one of many Netherlander composers who worked in Italy. He wrote Italian madrigals, French chansons, mas... Read more
Jacob Obrecht
Jacob Obrecht , c.1450-1505, Flemish composer. Obrecht was ordained as a priest in 1480. He wrote an early four-part setting of the St. Matthew Passion. His sacred music combined the polyphony of Johannes Ockeghem with folk elements. An edition of Obrecht's works, ed. by Johannes Wolf (7 vol., 1908-... Read more
Ogier the Dane
Ogier the Dane , in the chansons de geste , a paladin of Charlemagne. Although his military feats save emperor and kingdom, he is for a time at odds with Charlemagne. In some versions Morgan le Fay takes him to Avalon, from where he returns after 200 years to save France. As Holger, or Olger, Dansk... Read more
Hervey Allen
Hervey Allen 1889-1949, American novelist and poet, b. Pittsburgh, grad. Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1915. After service in World War I, he taught English in Charleston, S.C., where, in collaboration with DuBose Heyward, he wrote Carolina Chansons (1922), a volume of verse. He wrote other books of poetr... Read more
Josquin Desprez
Josquin Desprez , c.1440-1521, Flemish composer, b. Hainaut, regarded by his contemporaries as the greatest of his age. Luther spoke highly of Desprez, who may have instructed Erasmus in music. He was in Milan from 1459 to 1479, and he sang in the papal choir intermittently from 1486 to 1494. After ... Read more
trouvères
trouvères , medieval poet-musicians of central and N France, fl. during the later 12th and the 13th cent. The trouvères imitated the troubadours of the south. Written in the dialect called langue d'oïl, their songs include love lyrics, romances, and the heroic chansons de ges... Read more
Guillaume Dufay
Guillaume Dufay , c.1400-1474, principal composer at the Burgundian court. After his early training in the cathedral choir at Cambrai, he sang in the papal chapel in Rome (1428-33) and later in Florence and Bologna (1435-37). He was in the service of the antipope Felix V for seven years and was a ca... Read more
romance
romance [O.Fr.,=something written in the popular language, i.e., a Romance language ]. The roman of the Middle Ages was a form of chivalric and romantic literature widely diffused throughout Europe from the 11th cent. With the Provençal troubadours the roman was a form of narrative, o... Read more

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chansons de geste
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Iceland. The earlier chansons—epic, aristocratic...legendary. Some later chansons utilize fantastic adventure...The oldest extant chanson, and also the best and most famous, is the Chanson de Roland, composed...Reinterpretation of the Chansons de Geste (1983).
Chanson de Roland
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Chanson de Roland, see Roland and chansons de geste .
Songs, Popular
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...Robert Darnton shows that chansons evolved in a process of successive...anew. A leading aficionado of chansons was Jean-Fr é d...made a career out of writing chansons. By 1750 editions of the songs...Duneton, Claude. Histoire de la chanson fran ç aise. Vol...
Charlemagne
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...800). He and his Paladins are the subject of numerous chansons de geste , of which the Chanson de Roland is the most famous (see Roland ). Of the three groups of French chansons de geste concerned with Charlemagne, only the first, the...
Claude Goudimel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Roman Catholic church music and French chansons. Claude Goudimel was born in Besan...in the French capital when his first chansons were issued (1549) by the Parisian...publications, beginning in 1549. The many chansons printed during and after his lifetime...
Roland de Lassus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...four-voice madrigals, villanelle, chansons, and motets; the Venetian Antonio Gardana...published volume after volume of madrigals, chansons, lieder, motets, and Masses. The...Ballard issued in 1560 the first of many chansons by the master. Stylistically these works...
Claude Le Jeune
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...have come down to us. They include 67 chansons, 146 airs, 320 psalms, 41 sacred songs...development. Of greater weight are the chansons, airs, and settings of the Huguenot Psalter. The chansons extend from music-oriented, elaborately...
Adrian Willaert
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...motets, madrigals, villanescas, and chansons. Among the secular genres, first place...forms such as the villanesca. His French chansons may be divided into two groups: melismatic...of preexistent motets, madrigals, or chansons. Despite their beauty, they rank below...
Lasso, Orlando Di (c. 1532–1594)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...anthology of madrigals, villanescas, chansons, and motets; and that same year, Lasso...x2014; most modeled on motets, chansons, or madrigals — hymns, canticles...lighter villanescas, some 150 French chansons, and about 90 German lieder. He set...
Nicolas Gombert
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1556 or 1557. Gombert's extant works comprise 41 French chansons, 8 Magnificats, 159 motets for four to six voices, and 10...he replaced the older cantus firmus tenor with polyphonic chansons and motets, some of which were from his own hand. Motives...

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chanson de geste
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable chanson de geste a medieval French historical verse romance, typically one connected...and means literally ‘song of heroic deeds’, from chanson ‘song’ and geste from Latin gesta ‘actions...
chanson
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music chanson (Fr.). Song set to Fr. words. A term with many applications, especially...a kind of early madrigal of the ‘ayre’ type. The chanson de geste was an heroic verse chronicle set to mus. of the 11th and 12th...
Bilitis, Chansons de
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Bilitis, Chansons de ( Debussy). See Chansons de Bilitis .
Chansons de Bilitis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Chansons de Bilitis. 3 settings by Debussy, 1897–8, for v. and pf. of prose-poems by Pierre Louÿs. They are...
Bonne Chanson, La
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Bonne Chanson, La ( The Good Song ). 1. Settings by Fauré in 1892–3, Op.61, of 9 poems by Verlaine, namely Une Sainte...
Fauré, Gabriel (Urbain)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...sometimes known as 5 Chansons de Venise ) ( Mandoline...est l'extase ); La Bonne Chanson (Verlaine cycle), Op...silencieux , Op.92 (1906); Chanson , Op.94 (1906); Vocalise (1906); La Chanson d'Ève (Lerberghe...
Ibert, Jacques (François Antoine)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...lodies , medium v., pf. (1910); 3 Chansons de Charles Vildrac , medium v., pf...Chants , medium v., pf. (1927); 4 Chansons de Don Quichotte , low v., pf. (or orch.) (1932); Chanson de rien, medium v., pf. (1934...
Ockeghem, Johannes
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...fewer than a dozen motets, and about 20 chansons survive, enough to show his stature...parody Masses, based on one of his own chansons . His Missa pro Defunctis is earliest...requiem, Du Fay's having been lost. His chansons were the ‘popular songs...
Poulenc, Francis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...Carlo , sop., orch. (1961).CHORAL: Chanson à boire , unacc. male ch. (1922); 7 Chansons , unacc. ch. (1936); Litanies...unacc. vv. or unacc. ch. (1944); Chansons françaises , unacc. ch...
Tailleferre (Taillefesse), Germaine (Marcelle)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...INSTRS.: Nocturno-Fox , 2 bar., ens. (1928–58); Chansons françaises , v., instr. (1930); Cantate de Narcissus , v., orch. (1937); 9 Chansons du Folklore de France , v., ens. (1952–5); Concerto...

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Domaine Chanson Selects Paterno as Its U.S. Marketer; Agreement Builds on Esteemed Burgundy Producer's Resurgence.
PR Newswire; 12/15/2004; 700+ words ; ...announced an exclusive, long term agreement with Chanson and Societe Jacques Bollinger to market the Domaine Chanson Pere & Fils brand in the United States. "We welcome Domaine Chanson and its rich history," said Terlato. "With some...
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Magazine article from: Quebec Studies; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; La chanson quebecoise serait-elle un...litterature migrante--de la chanson quebecoise. Dans quelle mesure...sont-ils presents dans les chansons des artistes qui proviennent...interessant a un tout autre style de chanson, Catherine Lefrancois partage...
Panorama de la chanson scolaire et juvenile au Quebec: quelques jalons pedagogiques et ideologiques.(pedogological analysis of children's songs in Quebec)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Quebec Studies; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Employer le syntagme chanson enfantine pour designer les chansons destinees aux...Nombre de chansons enfantines n...repertoire de la chanson scolaire. Par...utiliser le terme chanson scolaire pour...d'objets-chansons interpretes dans...
Reply to discussion by G. Carosi and H. Chanson on "turbulence characteristics in skimming flows on stepped spillways".(DISCUSSION)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering; 4/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...turbulent vortices and air-water entities (bubbles, droplets, packets) (e.g., Chanson and Toombes 2002; Carosi and Chanson 2008; Gonzalez and Chanson 2008). In the high-velocity free-surface flow, the strong interactions between...
The Chansons of Orlando di Lasso: Music, Piety, and Print in Sixteenth-Century France. (Composers).
Magazine article from: Notes; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; The Chansons of Orlando di Lasso: Music...The discussions of the chansons themselves are very perceptive...begin with that not every chanson text was altered in the Protestant...his comments on the Lasso chansons themselves are some of the...
Dires, delires et extases dans la chanson de la rupture.
Magazine article from: Ethnologies; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...traditionnelles, de chansons a saveur religieuse...mondaine, de meme que les chansons de la musique congolaise...utilise l'expression chanson traditionnelle pour...a voir comment la chanson est l'echo des evenements...une infime variete de chansons qu'un long travail...
Le sacre du spectacle: Robert Charlebois et Diane Dufresne, deux cas de figure spectaculaires de la chanson quebecoise.(the importance of the live spectacle in the careers of Quebecois pop singers Robert Charlebois and Diane Dufresne)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Quebec Studies; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; La chanson-spectacle dans une societe...son cote performatif, la chanson a partie liee avec le spectacle...Autobiographie (4)--du monde de la chanson post-68. Deuxiemement...qui, loin d'un recital de chansons "a la francaise," emprunte...
The Chansons of Orlando di Lasso and Their Protestant Listeners: Music, Piety, and Print in Sixteenth-Century France. (Reviews).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; Richard Freedman, The Chansons of Orlando di Lasso and Their Protestant...published collections of contrafacta chansons by Orlando di Lasso: Thomas Vautrollier...anthologies transmits both contrafacta chansons -- works whose texts have been altered...
Helene Tetrel. La Chanson des Saxons et sa reception norroise: Avatars de la matiere epique.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...the coherence of the chanson de geste must be viewed in...introduction: the history of a chanson de geste is necessarily full...survey of the primary French chansons de geste and in the latter...section of the work is "La Chanson de Guitechin et la Saga af...
Chanson Cosmetics goes to USSR.
Magazine article from: Cosmetics International; 8/15/1991; 700+ words ; Chanson Cosmetics Goes To USSR Japanese company, Chanson Cosmetics Inc. is to enter the Soviet market. The firm...largest cosmetics producing company in the Soviet Union. Chanson has already shipped cosmetics made on an experimental basis...