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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.
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.
Pierre de Corbie (died after 1195) was an early trouvère from the Île-de-France. He is probably the same person as the magister Petrus de Corbeia (" master Peter of Corbie") who served as a canon at Notre Dame d'Arras between 1188 and 1195. [ 1 ]
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.
"Scarborough Fair" (Roud 12, Child 2) is a traditional English ballad. [1] The song lists a number of impossible tasks given to a former lover who lives in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
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.
With Les Compagnons de la chanson: 1946: Dans ma rue: 1946: J'm'en fous pas mal: 1946: C'est merveilleux: From the film Étoile sans lumière: 1946: Adieu mon cœur: 1946: Le Chant du pirate: 1946: Céline: 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 ...
Over the years the song became popular throughout the world and developed into a chanson classic and jazz standard with a large number of prominent artists recording their own versions. Besides the original in French, the song was also recorded in several other languages, with the English version " Beyond the Sea " being particularly popular ...