Chanson

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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Chanson De Geste

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

Burgundian Chanson

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

Chanson À Personnages

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

Ballade

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

Virelai

Entertainment / Music / Virelai: Medieval and Renaissance fixed poetic form and chanson type with French courtly texts. MORE

Rondeau

Entertainment / Literature / Rondeau: A short poem consisting of ten, thirteen, or fifteen lines using only two rhymes which concludes each section with an abbreviated line that serves as a refrain. We can see an example of the rondeau in MORE