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During the 17th century, the air de cour, chanson pour boire and other like genres, generally accompanied by lute or keyboard, flourished, with contributions by such composers as Antoine Boesset, Denis Gaultier, Michel Lambert and Michel-Richard de Lalande. This still affects today's chanson as many French musicians still employ harp and keyboard.
On 28 April 1956, "Refrains" [a] was one of the five songs with which Lys Assia competed in the Grand Prix Européen de la Chanson: Finale suisse, the eleven-song national final organized by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR) to select its two songs and performers for the first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.
A rondeau (French:; plural: rondeaux) is a form of medieval and Renaissance French poetry, as well as the 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 in France most commonly set to music between the late 13th and the 15th centuries.
Slightly more recent versions often contain one of a group of related refrains: "Sober and grave grows merry in time" "Every rose grows merry with time" "There's never a rose grows fairer with time" "Whilst every grove rings with a merry antine" [note 1] [7] These are usually paired with "Once (s)he was a true love of mine" or some variant.
l'Enfant de l'Irlande (Danny Boy) 1988 l'Enfant Que Je n'Ai Jamais Eu Paul Auriat: Didier Barbelivien: 1980 La Ballade des Gens Heureux: Gérard Lenorman: Pierre Delanoë: 1967 La Chanson de Notre Amour La Chansons des Souvenirs (Song Of A Thousand Voices) 1985 La demoiselle d'Orléans Pierre Delanoë, Jean-Pierre Bourtayre, Jacques Revaux ...
The Toreador Song, also known as the Toreador March or March of the Toreadors, is the popular name for the aria " Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre" ("I return your toast to you"), from the French opera Carmen, composed by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.
With Les Compagnons de la Chanson 1946: Le petit homme: 1946: Le Roi a fait battre tambour: With Les Compagnons de la Chanson 1946: Dans les prisons de Nantes: With Les Compagnons de la Chanson 1946: Elle chantait: With Les Compagnons de la Chanson 1946: Mariage: 1946: Un refrain courait dans la rue: 1946: Miss Otis Regrets: 1946: Il est né ...
The Song of Roland (French: La Chanson de Roland) is an 11th-century chanson de geste based on the deeds of the Frankish military leader Roland at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in AD 778, during the reign of the Emperor Charlemagne. It is the oldest surviving major work of French literature.