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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...
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  • accomplishes all these feats with the assistance of the fairy king Oberon. The chanson de geste that survives (in three more or less complete manuscripts and...
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    The sword is famous for its hardness and sharpness. Sources including La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland) state that it first belonged to the young...
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  • involving Charlemagne and the Paladins. The cycle springs from the Old French chansons de geste, and was later adapted into a variety of art forms, including...
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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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  • "Toutes les Chansons N° 1 des Années 70" (in French). InfoDisc. 1978-03-10. Retrieved 22 December 2019. "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Fantasy". Irish...
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    court in the 8th century. They first appear in the medieval (12th century) chanson de geste cycle of the Matter of France, where they play a similar role...
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    (E-flat major): Act 3, aria (Micaëla) – "Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante" Chanson du Toréador (F minor/F major) – Act 2, introduction and aria (Escamillo):...
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    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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    1854)) Vieille chanson (Millevoye, 1865) Adieux de l'hôtesse arabe (Hugo, 1866) Apres l'hiver (Hugo, 1866) Douce mer (Lamartine, 1866) Chanson d'avril (Bouilhet...
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  • Carmen (1988 musical) Carmen (2008 musical) Music Discography Carmen Fantasy (Sarasate) Carmen Fantasie (Waxman) Habanera Toreador Song Carmen: Duets...
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  • New York-Le Havre, 1968 Three Place Settings, 1968 Four Approaches, 1967 Chanson Bas, 1966 Sequela for orchestra, 1965 The Pleasures of Merely Circulating...
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    violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist. Under their former pseudonym Final Fantasy, Pallett won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds...
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    particular, "the emphasis on love and courtly manners distinguishes it from the chanson de geste and other kinds of epic, in which masculine military heroism predominates...
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  • of only two verses. In the French original, the crucial line "C'est une chanson" starts at the 13th bar, while in English the line "the autumn leaves"...
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  • la vie opportune Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheur Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune, Au calme clair de lune triste et beau, Qui fait...
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    thirteenth-century chanson de geste. It is preserved in four manuscripts, though some are fragmentary. It is a sequel to the Chanson de Roland, and is...
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    historiques, chants et chansons des soldats de France. The tune is also featured in the fourth movement of the Scottish Fantasy, composed in 1880 by German...
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    Ogier the Dane (category Chansons de geste)
    Danske) is a legendary paladin of Charlemagne who appears in many Old French chansons de geste. In particular, he features as the protagonist in La Chevalerie...
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  • French CD single "Sexy Boy" (radio edit) – 3:51 "New Star in the Sky" (Chanson Pour Soleil) – 5:38 The Kinky Boyz (feat. Kia) covered "Sexy Boy" in 1999...
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  • Berio Les mots sont allés (1978; for Paul Sacher) Sequenza VIb (1981) Chanson pour Pierre Boulez (Song for Pierre Boulez) (2000) Sequenza XIV (2002)...
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    pop music and fashion. In 2006 she was awarded the Grande médaille de la chanson française, an honorary award given by the Académie française, in recognition...
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  • Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest (category 2000s children's fantasy films)
    The Princes' Quest (French: Azur et Asmar) is a 2006 animated fairytale fantasy film written and directed by Michel Ocelot and animated at the Paris animation...
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    Caribbean epic poetry Chanson de geste Duma (Ukrainian epic) Elegiac Epic fiction List of epic poems List of world folk-epics Epic fantasy Epic film Epic theatre...
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  • Charts Company. Retrieved 25 October 2015. "Europe – The Final Countdown (chanson)". Lescharts.com (in French). Media Control Charts. Retrieved 2 October...
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    Shakespeare (tr. Bouchor) Chanson de clown from Twelfth Night (1890) Chanson d'amour from Measure for Measure (1891) Chanson d'Ophélie from Hamlet (1896)...
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    Marta (26 March 2021). "'I feel admonished for being myself': Yseult, the chanson singer riling the French establishment". the Guardian. Archived from the...
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    overture followed by eight movements. The second (Chanson dansée), fourth (Jeu) and seventh (Petite chanson dansée) contain parts for unseen chorus. The published...
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    be found in France, amongst such writers as Pierre Louys, author of Les chansons de Bilitis (1894) (a celebration of lesbianism and sexual awakening). Pioneering...
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    setting and characters, it shares some features with the Old French La Chanson de Roland of the eleventh century, which tells of the death of Roland....
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