A chanson (UK: /ˈʃɒ̃sɒ̃/, US: /ʃɑːnˈsɔːn/; French: chanson française [ʃɑ̃sɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] , lit. 'French song') is generally any lyric-driven French song...
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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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Huon of Bordeaux (redirect from Chanson d'Esclarmonde)
possible date) and terminus ante quem (latest possible date). The chanson's success gave rise to six continuations and one prologue which triple its length:...
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Music of France (category All articles with unsourced statements)
prominent romantic composers, while folk and popular music have seen the rise of the chanson and cabaret style. The oldest playable musical recordings were made...
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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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Eurovision Song Contest 1968 (redirect from À chacun sa chanson)
broadcast on 30 April 1968 at 20:30 (AST) René-Roger (9 April 1968). "La chanson espagnole triomphe devant 200 millions de spectateurs" [Spanish song triumphs...
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overwhelmingly popular music of the 16th century: indeed many chansons were sung all over Europe. The chanson in the early 16th century was characterised by a dactylic...
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Me Now". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 28 September 2014. "Palmarès de la chanson anglophone et allophone au Québec" (in French). BAnQ. Archived from the...
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List of best-selling music artists (redirect from Best-selling artist of all time)
"Certification Definitions". Music Canada. Retrieved July 1, 2014. "CRIA Reports 46% Rise for Disk Certifications". Billboard. February 27, 1982. Retrieved July 29...
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Eurovision Song Contest (redirect from Concours Eurovision de la chanson)
The Eurovision Song Contest (French: Concours Eurovision de la chanson), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international song competition organised...
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Dorothée (category All BLP articles lacking sources)
traditional nursery rhymes in a record collection called Le jardin des chansons. Several of her songs were used for the openings of animated series featured...
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Yé-yé (category All articles that may contain original research)
yé-yé song composition include baroque, exotica, pop, jazz and the French chanson. The yé-yé movement had its origins in the radio program Salut les copains...
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Gopnik (category All articles lacking reliable references)
and Russia. The subculture is stereotypically associated with Russian chanson music, specifically the blatnaya pesnya subgenre. Since the mid-2010s,...
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Toreador Song (redirect from Chanson du Toréador)
the crowd cries out in a great roar! Calling out names, shouts, and noises Rise to a frenzy, For this is the celebration of courage! It is the celebration...
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Françoise Hardy (category All articles containing potentially dated statements)
herself assembling a song book, Chansons sur toi et nous, a compilation of all of her lyrics with commentaries. Chansons sur toi et nous was published in...
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released in December 2007. The third album in the Connick on Piano series, Chanson du Vieux Carré was released in 2007, and Connick received two Grammy nominations...
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Flood (category All articles with dead external links)
Small Dams, United States Government Printing Office, 1973 Brown, Richard; Chanson, Hubert; McIntosh, Dave; Madhani, Jay (2011). Turbulent Velocity and Suspended...
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Middle Ages (section Rise of Islam)
stories, legends, and popular songs. Often the stories were written down in chansons de geste (songs of great deeds), glorifying their male heroes' often-brutal...
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Lyube (category Russian chanson)
several genres, with influences from both Russian folk music, rock, Russian chanson, and Soviet military songs. The band was founded in 1989, and since then...
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Renaissance music (category All articles with unsourced statements)
techniques from sacred music, and vice versa. Popular secular forms such as the chanson and madrigal spread throughout Europe. Courts employed virtuoso performers...
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Celine Dion (category All articles with dead external links)
skilled vocals. Her music has incorporated genres such as pop, rock, R&B, chanson, and classical music. Her recordings have been mainly in English and French...
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Les biches (section Chanson dansée)
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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A Jewish Princedom in Feudal France (category All articles needing additional references)
Frankish name Theodoric, and the protagonist of the Chanson de geste called Aymeri de Narbonne, as all referring to the same man, a nasi from Baghdad who...
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Pop music (category All articles containing potentially dated statements)
traditional pop, an American counterpart to German Schlager and French Chanson, however compared to the pop of European countries, traditional pop originally...
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Mano Negra (band) (category All articles needing additional references)
array of musical styles: punk rock, folk, flamenco, ska, salsa, French chanson, hip hop, raï, rockabilly, reggae and African rhythms. They also made frequent...
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Tom Dooley (song) (category All articles with dead external links)
Compagnons De La Chanson – Tom Dooley (fais ta prière)". Ultratop. "Les Compagnons de la chanson". infordisc. Select "Les Compagnons de la chanson" from list...
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France in the Middle Ages (category All articles needing additional references)
century"; a growing body of secular vernacular literature (including the chanson de geste, chivalric romance, troubadour and trouvère poetry, etc.) and...
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Chanson, H. (2004). The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow: An Introduction (2nd ed.). Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-7506-5978-9. Chanson, Hubert...
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1950s in music (category All articles to be expanded)
Broadcasting Union started the Eurovision Song Contest in 1956. In France, the Chanson Française genre dominated the music scene. Popular Latin styles of the...
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Neigh (category All articles with unsourced statements)
Karagiannis-Moser, Emmanuelle (1997). "Le hennissement du cheval". Le Bestiaire de La Chanson Populaire Grecque Moderne (in French). Paris: Presses Paris Sorbonne. pp...
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