Entertainment / Music / Chanson: French polyphonic song, especially of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, set to either courtly or popular poetry. See also Burgundian chanson.
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Entertainment / Literature / Chanson De Geste: (French, 'song of deeds') These chansons are lengthy Old French poems written between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries glorifying Carolingian noblemen and their feudal lords. The chansons de gest MORE
Entertainment / Music / Burgundian Chanson: Fifteenth century French composition, usually for three voices, some or all of which may be played by instruments. Also chanson. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Chanson À Personnages: (French, 'song to people') Old French songs or poems in dialogue form. Common subjects include quarrels between husbands and wives, meetings between a lone knight and a comely shepherdess, or romantic MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Ballade: A French verse form consisting most often of three eight-line stanzas having the same rhyme pattern, followed by a four-line envoy. In a typical ballade, the last lines of each stanza and of the envoy MORE