The main type was the German lied, Italian frottola, the French chanson, the Italian madrigal, and the Spanish villancico.

Her nickname was " la tragédienne de la chanson ", and amongst her big hits were " Les goélands ", " Johnny Palmer ", " C ' est mon gigolo " and " Tu ne sais pas aimer "-- the latter song became a theme for French sufferers of AIDS.

Regarded as one of the most important figures in French popular music, he was renowned for his often provocative and scandalous releases, as well as his diverse artistic output, which embodied genres ranging from jazz, chanson, pop and yé-yé, to reggae, funk, rock, electronic and disco music.

He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson.

The literature which was popular then was heroic-romantic literature derived from the French and in turn English courts, notably chanson de geste around Charlemagne ( the Matter of France ) and tales of King Arthur ( the Matter of Britain ).

* Apart from the main block is the Rocher Bayard that was said to have been split by giant hoof of Bayard, the giant horse carrying the four sons of Aymon on their legendary flight from Charlemagne through the Ardennes, told in Les Quatre Fils Aymon, a famous 12th-century chanson de geste.

Another form which Lassus cultivated was the French chanson, of which he wrote about 150.

She was an attractive tenor who sang lieder, chanson and opera and operetta.

The horn that came to symbolize Orange when heraldry came in vogue much later in the 12th century was a pun on his name in French, from the character his deeds inspired in the chanson de geste, the Chanson de Guillaume, " Guillaume au Court Nez " or " Guillaume au Cornet ".

While the second half of the program was the same kind of straightforward, nonsensical humor that had always been his hallmark, the first half of the new show entitled " Ik heb je lief " ( a deeper statement than " I love you ", not unlike " I love thee ") consisted only of songs, in a mixture of simple jazz and French-style " chanson ", that were tributes to love and, indirectly, to his late wife.

Lale Andersen ( 23 March 1905 – 29 August 1972 ) was a German chanson singer-songwriter born in Bremerhaven, Germany.

The chanson de geste was also adapted in southern ( Occitan-speaking ) France.

The chanson de geste form was also used in such Occitan texts as Canso d ' Antioca ( late 12th century ), Daurel e Betó ( first half of the 13th century ), and Song of the Albigensian Crusade ( c. 1275 ) ( cf Occitan literature ).

Doon himself was probably one of the last characters to be clearly defined, and the chanson de geste relating his exploits was drawn up partly with the view of supplying a suitable ancestor for the other heroes — in modern terms, a prequel.

Renaud de Montauban, ( also spelled Renaut, Renault, Italian: Rinaldo di Montalbano, Dutch: Reinout van Montalba ( e ) n ) was a fictional hero and knight who was introduced to literature in a 12th century Old French chanson de geste known as Les Quatre Fils Aymon (" The Four Sons of Aymon ") ( frequently referred to simply as tale of Renaud de Montauban ).

Maugis d ' Aigremont was a chanson de geste most likely composed in the early 13th century.

When he first began to cultivate the chanson, it was a minor and little-regarded form, restricted to slight subjects and a humorous guise of treatment.

One of its madrigals was a setting of Guarini's notorious Tirsi morir volea, an obscene poem that Einstein called " worthless, indeed contemptible ", and "... more obscene than the coarsest mascherata, the most suggestive canto carnascialesco, or the most impertinent chanson ... could not be more removed from true poetry " but yet which was the most-often set individual poem of the late sixteenth century.

Stylistically, the music in both Arcadelt's and Verdelot's books was more akin to the French chanson than either the Italian frottola or the sacred music of the time, such as the motet.

The amount of influence was roughly inversely proportional to the strength of the local secular musical tradition: for example France, which had the robust and sophisticated form of the chanson during the 16th century, never adopted the madrigal – they did not need it.

Chanson Française is the typical style of French music ( chanson means " song " in French ) and is still very popular in France.

The work incorporates eclectic musical influences, ranging from Johann Sebastian Bach and Igor Stravinsky to the old Netherlands chanson " L ' homme armé " and 20th-century boogie-woogie .< ref > The work opens with 144 iterations of the same chord played fortissimo ( very loud ) and features an extended solo for two large metal boxes played with hammers.

These composers had mastered a serious polyphonic style suitable for setting sacred music, and also were familiar with the secular music of their homelands, music such as the chanson, which differed considerably from the lighter Italian secular styles of the late 15th and very early 16th centuries.

Members, former members and contributors include many French artists who are now very well known on their own and considered as part of what is now called the " Renouveau de la chanson Française " ( the " Renewal of French chanson "): Camille Dalmais, Phoebe Killdeer, Mélanie Pain, Marina Céleste and Gerald Toto.

In 2004, after the successful release of Les risques du métier, he won the award for " album " chanson / variété " of the year ".

** A chanson à quatre voix in " 6 Gaillardes et six Pavanes avec 13 chansons " Attaingnant, Paris s. d., 1528

* Ecoutez la chanson bien douce ( Verlaine ), 1 voice, orchestra, 1905

The focus for this season was expected to shift from traditional songs to the " nouvelle chanson francaise " style made popular by singers like Benabar, Benjamin Biolay and former Star Ac 1 contestant Olivia Ruiz.

Roland appears in Entrée d ' Espagne, a 14th century Franco-Venetian chanson de geste ( in which he is transformed into a knight errant, similar to heroes from the Arthurian romances ) and La Spagna, a 14th century Italian epic.

Gabriel Fauré composed many mélodies, such as the song cycles Cinq mélodies " de Venise " and La bonne chanson, which were settings of Verlaine's poems.

One such song by Bolduc is La chanson du bavard, which notably employs an introduction inviting the listener to hear a tale, as is common in broadside ballads.

In addition to epic poems in the Germanic tradition ( e. g. Beowulf and Nibelungenlied ), epic poems in the tradition of the chanson de geste ( e. g. The Song of Roland and Digenis Acritas which deal with the Matter of France and the Acritic songs respectively ) and courtly romances in the tradition of the roman courtois, which deal with the Matter of Britain and the Matter of Rome, achieved great and lasting popularity.

In Italy, there exists several 14th century texts in verse or prose which recount the feats of Charlemagne in Spain, including a chanson de geste in Franco-Venetian, the Entrée d ' Espagne ( c. 1320 ) ( notable for transforming the character of Roland into a knight errant, similar to heroes from the Arthurian romances ), and a similar Italian epic La Spagna ( 1350-1360 ) in ottava rima.

For the chanson, as he says himself, opened up to him a path in which his genius could develop itself at ease ; he escaped, by this literary gateway, from strict academical requirements, and had at his disposal the whole dictionary, four-fifths of which, according to La Harpe, were forbidden to the use of more regular and pretentious poetry.

He produced a large quantity of original compositions, from the opera and the oratorio to the simple chanson, including several musical hoaxes, the most famous of which is the " Lute concerto by Valentin Strobel ", premiered with Fernando Sor as soloist.

Born of the cafés-concerts and cabarets of the Montmartre district of Paris and influenced by literary realism and the naturalist movements in literature and theatre, chanson réaliste was a musical style which was mainly performed by women and dealt with the lives of Paris's poor and working class.

The parallel development of solo song with accompaniment in France was called the air de cour: the term monody is not normally applied to these more conservative songs, however, which retained many musical characteristics of the Renaissance chanson.

The three names were first used by the twelfth century French poet Jean Bodel, author of the Chanson de Saisnes, a chanson de geste in which he wrote:

The pastoral, which tells how Marion resisted the knight, and remained faithful to Robert the shepherd, is based on an old chanson, Robin m ' aime, Robin m ' a.

Like the chanson de geste, the romance of adventure is but slightly represented in the south ; but it is to be borne in mind that many works of this class must have perished, as is rendered evident by the mere fact that, with few exceptions, the narrative poems which have come down to us are each known by a single manuscript only.

The frottola was a significant influence not only on the madrigal, but on the French chanson, which also tended to be a light, danceable, and popular form.

The roots of written Gallo literature are traced back to Le Livre des Manières written in 1178 by Etienne de Fougères, a poetical text of 336 quatrains and the earliest known Romance text from Brittany, and to Le Roman d ' Aquin, an anonymous 12th century chanson de geste transcribed in the 15th century but which nevertheless retains features typical of the mediaeval Romance of Brittany.

He wanted to break with the traditional chanson, which he considered to be more literary than musical.