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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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Chanson de Roland
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Chanson de Roland, see Roland and chansons de geste .
chansons de geste
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...and Girart de Roussillon ; or those caused by the impact of the Crusades on feudalism, as in the Chanson de Guillaume and, above all, in the Chanson de Roland (see Roland ). These epics gradually grew into three cycles, first delineated by Bertran...
Gabriel Urbain Fauré
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...period, which lasted until 1908, are the song cycle La Bonne chanson (1892), settings of Paul Verlaine's poems, and the Requiem...meditation. Works of the third period include two song cycles, La Chanson d'Eve (1910) and Le Jardin clos (1917); an austere opera...
Paul Marie Verlaine
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Nevermore, Mon rêve familier, and especially Chanson d'automne revealed the lovely lyricism and delicate sadness...Clair de lune, Mandoline, and Colloque sentimental. La Bonne chanson (1870/ 1872), intended as a sort of epithalamium for his...
Roland
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...Carmen de proditione Guenonis of the same epoch; and in the Chanson de Roland , in medieval French, also of the early 12th cent...Hastings (1066), possibly an earlier version of the extant Chanson . Roland, as Orlando, is the hero of Boiardo's Orlando...
Guillaume Dufay
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the works he wrote for members of the family date from this time until 1426. Between 1426 and 1428 Dufay was in Cambrai. A chanson, Adieu ces bon vins de Lannoys, dated 1426 in a contemporary manuscript, may indicate a stay in Laon, a city in which he...
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1600. Victoria's miscellany of 1600 includes a Missa pro Victoria modeled on Clément Janequin's famous battle chanson. Philip III liked this ebullient nine-voice Mass founded on a secular model more than any of Victoria's other works...
puppet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...England and the Guignol in France. Puppet theaters have been established in the Americas; old epic dramas, often based on the Chanson de Roland and other medieval and modern pieces, have drawn crowded houses. The Greeks of the 5th cent. BC were familiar...
French literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...became an international tongue, and a literature arose that reflected the attitudes and activities of the military, as in the Chanson de Roland (c.1100; see Roland ). A tradition of epic poetry was developed by traveling minstrels, or jongleurs. Lengthy...
Piaf, Edith
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...Although she was primarily a singer—she made extensive tours of Europe and North America with Les Compagnons de la Chanson, for instance—she also appeared in a number of films, and was seen on stage in Le Bel Indifférent...

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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...
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...
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 ...xE8;ne , C'est l'extase ); La Bonne Chanson (Verlaine cycle), Op.61, Nos.1...Le Don silencieux , Op.92 (1906); Chanson , Op.94 (1906); Vocalise (1906); La Chanson d'Ève (Lerberghe cycle), Op...
Epstein, Jean
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...des corbeaux ) (+ pr); Notre-Dame de Paris (+ pr); La Chanson des peupliers (+ pr); Le Cor (+ pr) 1932 L'Or des mers...Hispano (+ sc, pr); La Chatelaine du Liban (+ sc, pr) 1934 Chanson d'armor (+ pr, adaptation); La Vie d'un grand journal...
Bizet, (Alexandre Césare Léopold)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...1873).CHORAL: Valse in G , 4 vv., orch. (1855); La Chanson du Rouet , solo v., 4 vv., pf. (1857); Clovis et Clotilde...Games), 12 pieces, pf. duet (1871).SONGS: Vieille Chanson (1865); Après l'hiver (1866); Feuilles d...
Clouzot, Henri-Georges
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Tourjansky) (co-adapt) 1932 Le Roi des palaces (Gallone) (co-sc); Le Dernier Choc (de Baroncelli) (co-sc); La Chanson d'une nuit (French language version of Anatole Litvak's Das Lied einer Nacht ) (co-adapt, dialogue); Faut-il les...
Karina, Anna
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Maria (Richard) (as Berthe Granjeux) 1986 Dame des Dunes (Joyce Buñuel—for TV); Dernière chanson (Last Song ) (Berry) (+ co-sc); Anna (Koralnik) 1987 Dernier été à Tanger (Last Summer...
Decaë, Henri
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Premier prix du conservatoire (Guy-Grand) (co) 1943 Au-delà du visible (+ d) 1945 A tous les vents (+ d); Chanson de rue (Sevestre); Marseille, premier port de France (Mineur) 1946 Hommes et bêtes (Mineur); L'Accord...
Saulnier, Jacques
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Deferre); La Voix (The Voice ) (Granier-Deferre) 1993 Smoking/No Smoking (Resnais) 1997 On connaît la chanson (Same Old Song ) (Resnais) Publications By SAULNIER: articles— Cinématographe (Paris), no. 88...

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Presentation: la chanson quebecoise comme objet d'etude.(overview of issue on research into Quebecois music)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Quebec Studies; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; La chanson quebecoise serait-elle un parent pauvre dans le domaine...quebecoises et canadiennes, l'on se penche sur la chanson d'expression francophone au Canada--sur la chanson quebecoise en particulier--depuis quelques annees...
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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...
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...
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 du spectaculaire Par son cote performatif, la chanson a partie liee avec le spectacle et, le plus...paroles et de la composition musicale d'une chanson que sur celui du geste interpretatif et de...
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 ; ...cautionnement du Conseil de l'Instruction publique. Chanson enfantine et chanson scolaire Dans le cadre de nos travaux anterieurs...objetschansons en general que pour le corpus limite de la chanson enfantine auquel nous nous sommes particulierement...
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...
Pop: Vive la chanson! For us, chanson brings to mind the nostalgic past of Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel, but in France, a new generation has given it an ultra- hip meaning, says PHILIP SWEENEY. And David Byrne is one of this revamped genre's greatest fans
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...people are always talking about a return of chanson, and when you encounter it, it's as...half a century as one of France's top chanson accordionists, most notably as accompanist...is proof of the regenerative power of chanson, it's Corti. Around the table with...
Gulag rock: Russian 'chanson' puts Soviet era to song
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 7/14/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...this nation's history. This is Russian chanson, an amorphous genre that has become the...Krug, often called the king of Russian chanson, was murdered in 2002, hundreds of thousands...But even more than gangsta rap, Russian chanson has attracted the ire of politicians...
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 ; Helene Tetrel. La Chanson des Saxons et sa reception norroise...purpose of Helene Tetrel's fine book La Chanson des Saxons et sa reception norroise...the war of the Saxons: Jean Bodel's Chanson des Saisnes and the Kalamagnussaga...
La chanson, une technologie du genre: Eric Lapointe et l'exaltation d'une virilite rebelle.(analysis of lyrics of Quebecois rock singer Eric Lapointe)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Quebec Studies; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Suivant cette proposition, je suggere que la chanson constitue egalement une technologie du genre. La chanson m'apparait en effet participer de deux...autre part, a lui seul, le texte de chanson, a l'instar du texte litteraire...