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...
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secular song forms (particularly the lai and the formes fixes: rondeau, virelai and ballade). Among his only surviving sacred works, Messe de Nostre Dame...
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same texts. It is thus most similar to the French musical 'forme fixe' virelai (and not the ballade as the name might otherwise suggest). The first and...
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List of compositions by Guillaume de Machaut (redirect from List of virelais by Guillaume de Machaut)
surviving works encompassing many forms, the three formes fixes rondeaux, virelais, ballades, as well as motets, lais and a single representative of the complainte...
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corresponding musical chanson form. Together with the ballade and the virelai it was considered one of three formes fixes, and one of the verse forms...
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14th century, by the French composer Guillaume de Machaut. The song is a virelai, belonging to the style ars nova, and is one of the most often heard medieval...
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Grimace (composer) (section Virelai)
formes fixes; three ballades, a virelai and rondeau. His best known and most often performed work in modern-times is the virelai and proto-battaglia: A l’arme...
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(fol. 23) ("Splendid ruler") Virelai: Mariam, Matrem Virginem, Attolite (fol. 25r) ("Praise Mary, the virgin mother") Virelai/danse: Polorum Regina (fol...
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Spanish villancico. Other secular vocal genres included the caccia, rondeau, virelai, bergerette, ballade, musique mesurée, canzonetta, villanella, villotta...
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Ciconia Dunstaple Major forms Canso Conductus Formes fixes Ballade Rondeau Virelai Geisslerlied Gregorian chant Lai Lauda Liturgical drama Madrigal Motet...
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one of the three formes fixes (the other two were the rondeau and the virelai) and one of the verse forms in France most commonly set to music between...
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The ars-nova style is evident in his considerable body of motets, lais, virelais, rondeaux and ballades. Towards the end of the fourteenth century, a new...
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literature - Vignette (literature) - Villain/villainess - Villanelle - Virelai - Volta (literature) War poet - Whodunit Yellow back Zeugma Glossary of...
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Early chansons tended to be in one of the formes fixes—ballade, rondeau or virelai (formerly the chanson baladée)—though some composers later set popular...
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carole, eighteen jeux-partis, fourteen rondeaux, five motets, one rondeau-virelai, one ballette, one dit d'amour, and one congé. Adam's shorter pieces are...
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14th- and 15th-century French poetic forms: the ballade, rondeau, and virelai. Each was also a musical form, generally a chanson, and all consisted of...
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translations) are typical of memento mori in medieval music; they are from the virelai Ad Mortem Festinamus of the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat from 1399: The...
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highly developed secular compositions. Breton lai Roundelay § Etymology Virelai Henry Garland; Mary Garland, eds. (2005) [1997], "Leich", The Oxford Companion...
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Ciconia Dunstaple Major forms Canso Conductus Formes fixes Ballade Rondeau Virelai Geisslerlied Gregorian chant Lai Lauda Liturgical drama Madrigal Motet...
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Salut d'amor Sestina Sicilian octave Sirventes Tagelied Tenso Tornada Torneyamen Traethodl Triolet Trobar clus Trobar leu Trobar ric Viadera Virelai...
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Salut d'amor Sestina Sicilian octave Sirventes Tagelied Tenso Tornada Torneyamen Traethodl Triolet Trobar clus Trobar leu Trobar ric Viadera Virelai...
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Ciconia Dunstaple Major forms Canso Conductus Formes fixes Ballade Rondeau Virelai Geisslerlied Gregorian chant Lai Lauda Liturgical drama Madrigal Motet...
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Ciconia Dunstaple Major forms Canso Conductus Formes fixes Ballade Rondeau Virelai Geisslerlied Gregorian chant Lai Lauda Liturgical drama Madrigal Motet...
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the Provençal troubador tradition, such as secular monophonic lais and virelais. Jehan de Lescurel (or Jehannot de l'Escurel), a poet and composer from...
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Salut d'amor Sestina Sicilian octave Sirventes Tagelied Tenso Tornada Torneyamen Traethodl Triolet Trobar clus Trobar leu Trobar ric Viadera Virelai...
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Salut d'amor Sestina Sicilian octave Sirventes Tagelied Tenso Tornada Torneyamen Traethodl Triolet Trobar clus Trobar leu Trobar ric Viadera Virelai...
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diverse: 280 different formats for the 420 Cantigas. The most common are the virelai and the rondeau. The length of the lines varies between two and 24 syllables...
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includes examples of each of the prevailing formes fixes, the ballade, the virelai, and the rondeau. The melody is always in the topmost voice, and all are...
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beginning of the 16th century. Along with the formes fixes ballade and virelai, the forme fixe rondeau was limited to only vocal music due to its use...
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Ciconia Dunstaple Major forms Canso Conductus Formes fixes Ballade Rondeau Virelai Geisslerlied Gregorian chant Lai Lauda Liturgical drama Madrigal Motet...
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