The formes fixes (French: [fɔʁm fiks]; singular: forme fixe, "fixed form") are the three 14th- and 15th-century French poetic forms: the ballade, rondeau...

the formes fixes—ballade, rondeau or virelai (formerly the chanson baladée)—though some composers later set popular poetry in a variety of forms. The...

ballad) is a form of medieval and Renaissance French poetry as well as the corresponding musical chanson form. It was one of the three formes fixes (the other...

A virelai is a form of medieval French verse used often in poetry and music. It is one of the three formes fixes (the others were the ballade and the...

ballade and the virelai it was considered one of three formes fixes, and one of the verse forms in France most commonly set to music between the late 13th...

extensive surviving oeuvre is an important and rare examples of the formes fixes before the time of Guillaume de Machaut; it consists of 34 works: 20...

He began to break free from conformity to formes fixes, especially in his chansons. Of the formes fixes, the rondeau retained its popularity longest...

range of styles and forms and was crucial in developing the motet and secular song forms (particularly the lai and the formes fixes: rondeau, virelai and...

Guitarra morisca Medieval harp (Medieval form of the modern harp) Hurdy-gurdy Lute Lyre Organistrum (large form of medieval hurdy-gurdy) Psaltery Rebab...

have been synonyms for lai. The poetic form of the lai usually has several stanzas, none of which have the same form. As a result, the accompanying music...

ballate) is an Italian poetic and musical form in use from the late 13th to the 15th century. It has the musical form AbbaA, with the first and last stanzas...

Catherine C. Gleason - 1988 "Chanson is a generic term and includes the formes fixes: rondeau, virelai, ballade and bergerette. ... The bergerette, developed...

more quickly, followed the rigid formal structure of the contemporary formes fixes, particularly the rondeau and the bergerette. The three most prominent...

the repertoire by the beginning of the 16th century. Along with the formes fixes ballade and virelai, the forme fixe rondeau was limited to only vocal...

the French trouvères. This is most obvious in the adoption of the strophic form of the canzone, at its most basic a seven-line strophe with the rhyme scheme...

An octave is a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter (in English) or of hendecasyllables (in Italian). The most common rhyme scheme...

The kyrielle is a poetic form that originated in 15th century French troubadour poetry. The name kyrielle derives from the Kýrie, which is part of many...

The rondelet is a brief French form of poetry. It contains a single septet, refrain, a strict rhyme scheme and a distinct meter pattern. Rondelet is the...

cledisat [klediˈzat]; also known as sestine, sextine, sextain) is a fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line...

the circumstances and content of his five surviving compositions of formes fixes; three ballades, a virelai and rondeau. His best known and most often...

ends with one or more envois (called Tornadas in Old Occitan). It takes the form of a shortened stanza, containing only a last part of the standard stanza...

works are in the form of the virelai, one of the formes fixes. Most of the composers of the period wrote in another of formes fixes, the rondeau, but...

lifetime, the rondeau became the dominant chanson-type of the three formes fixes. This was reflected in Binchois' body of work: of his 54 chansons, the...

the rondel, and the rondelet, other French verse forms emphasizing repetition and rhyme. The form stems from medieval French poetry and seems to have...

in musical forms corresponding to the poetry they set, which were in the so-called formes fixes of rondeau, ballade, and virelai. These forms significantly...

The lauda (Italian pl. laude) or lauda spirituale was the most important form of vernacular sacred song in Italy in the late medieval era and Renaissance...

of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music...

the motet-chanson. Though similar to 15th-century works based on the formes fixes mold which were completely secular, Josquin's motet-chansons contained...

the formes fixes: the ballade, the virelai, the lai, the rondeau, which correspond to poetic forms of the same names. Most pieces in these forms are for...

The Trecento Madrigal is an Italian musical form of the 14th century. It is quite distinct from the madrigal of the Renaissance and early Baroque, with...