chanson's Usage Examples:

poem, then chanson, with the text divided into eight-verse sections, or octonaries, after the model of Psalm 118.

He must have participated in puys, for his "Force d"Amours me destraint et mestroie" is labelled a chanson.

The earliest versions (preserved in Dolopathos) do not provide specific identity to this knight, but the Old French Crusade cycle of chansons de geste adapted it to make the Swan Knight (Le Chevalier au Cigne, first version around 1192) the legendary ancestor of Godfrey of Bouillon.

Rundkanzone [German: "rounded chanson" or "rounded canzona"] is a type of bar form (AAB form or "canzona form") originally taken from medieval German song.

music, and in all of the significant vocal forms of the time, including masses, motets, chansons and frottole.

Piaf"s music was often autobiographical, and she specialized in chanson and torch ballads about love, loss and sorrow.

In addition, his highly popular church music combined old forms with modern theatricality, and his chansons including Plaisir d'amour were influential.

ronde, 1880 Fenêtres et jalousies, operetta in 1 act, 1882 La chanson des Écus, operetta in 1 act, 1883 Fenêtres et jalousies, operetta en 1 act, 1883.

According to this Old French chanson de geste Ganelon was married to Charlemagne's sister and had a son with her.

two further songs survive (without music) credited to an otherwise unidentifiable "Jocelin" in the Berne Chansonnier (CH-BEsu 389 Trouvère chansonnier.

types were known as the chanson de geste (song of deeds) and were popular amongst the traveling jongleurs and minstrels of the time.