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    The Song of Roland (French: La Chanson de Roland) is an 11th-century chanson de geste based on the deeds of the Frankish military leader Roland at the...
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    The chanson de geste (Old French for 'song of heroic deeds', from Latin: gesta 'deeds, actions accomplished') is a medieval narrative, a type of epic poem...
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    literature. The first and most famous of these epic treatments was the Old French Chanson de Roland of the 11th century. Two masterpieces of Italian Renaissance...
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    Orly is a chanson (song) in French by the Belgian songwriter Jacques Brel. It was recorded on September 5, 1977 and released on Brel's last long-playing...
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  • La Bonne Chanson, Op. 61, by Gabriel Fauré, is a song cycle of nine mélodies for voice and piano. He composed it during 1892–94; in 1898 he created a...
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  • Termagant (category Stereotypes of women)
    to the latter's "companions". In the 15th-century Middle English romance Syr Guy of Warwick, a Sultan swears an oath by Termagant. In The Chanson de Roland...
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    Acromegaly (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
    Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology (10th ed.). Saunders. ISBN 0-7216-2921-0. Melmed S, Casanueva FF, Klibanski A, Bronstein MD, Chanson P, Lamberts...
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    Serge Gainsbourg (category Alumni of the Académie de la Grande Chaumière)
    public opinion. His artistic output ranged from his early work in jazz, chanson, and yé-yé to later efforts in rock, zouk, funk, reggae, and electronica...
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    Baphomet (redirect from Goat of Mendes)
    For example, one finds the gods Bafum e Travagan in a Provençal poem on the life of St. Honorat, completed in 1300. In the Chanson de Simon Pouille, written...
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    Raphaël Enthoven (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    France on the meaning of life.[citation needed] Since 2013, he also teaches philosophy to first and second year high-school students at the École Jeannine...
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    and renewal. Examples include the use of the burlap whip and the tune on which the Chanson de Mardi Gras are based, both of which are traced back to Brittany...
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    Johannes Ockeghem (category Classical composers of church music)
    prolationum; the Missa cuiusvis toni, which can be sung in any mode; the chanson Fors seulement; and the earliest surviving polyphonic Requiem. The spelling of Ockeghem's...
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  • chanson identitaire occitane? - Actes du 6º congrès international de l'Association Internationale d'Études Occitanes (in French). Praesens. CHANSONS du...
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    Frederic Austin. "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is a cumulative song, meaning that each verse is built on top of the previous verses. There are twelve...
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    masses and motets which are in the typical imitative polyphonic style of the time. He also wrote two books of chansons which were specifically designed...
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    Orlando di Lasso (category Musicians from the Habsburg Netherlands)
    different in tone and style from either the chansons or madrigals; in addition, he wrote them later in life, with none appearing until 1567, when he...
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    derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος (amphíbios), which means 'both kinds of life', ἀμφί meaning 'of both kinds' and βίος meaning 'life'. The term was...
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    of a curtain concealing the orchestra, chorus and solo singers. The actor's dramatic monologues explain the meaning of the music in the life of the artist...
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    Josquin des Prez (category Classical composers of church music)
    and secular chansons. Josquin's biography has been continually revised by modern scholarship, and remains highly uncertain. Little is known of his early...
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    Frog (redirect from Frog life cycle)
    Opportunities to Make a Difference. The Nature Conservancy. Retrieved September 5, 2012. Stuart, S. N.; Chanson, J. S.; Cox, N. A.; Young, B. E.; Rodrigues...
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  • minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Official naming citations of newly named small...
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    Madrigal (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    from the stylistic influence of the French chanson; and from the polyphony of the motet (13th–16th centuries). The technical contrast between the musical...
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  • less on style and more on meaning. This means that fewer stylistic devices are used, and the poetry is often in the form of a narrative. What separates...
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    "As Black as the Sky" (Aussi noir que le ciel), "Life Is a Dream, They Say" (La vie est un songe dit-on), and "Song of Oblivion" (La chanson du néant),...
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  • Papaoutai (category Works about the Rwandan genocide)
    première pour une chanson en français". 22 May 2023. "Karl Ruben Noel". IMDb. Stromae: Disillusion, With a Dance Beat, by Scott Sayer, The New York Times...
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  • son goût: "to each his/her own taste(s)." chanson a classical "art song", equiv. to the German Lied or the Italian aria; or, in Russian, a cabaret-style...
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    dissipated release of flows from a dam or levee gabiondesign.be Archived January 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Wüthrich, Davide; Chanson, Hubert (September...
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    manuscript of the Chanson de Roland, readable online images of the complete original, Bodleian Library MS. Digby 23 (Pt 2), La Chanson de Roland, Anglo-Norman...
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  • won the Best Original Song of the Year in 2018 during the Victoires de la chanson in France. In a special feature La chanson secrète broadcast on 29 December...
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    Ballad (redirect from The ballad)
    A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally...
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