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Chanson Française is the typical style of French music (chanson means "song" in French) and is still very popular in France. Some of the most important artists included: Édith Piaf , Juliette Gréco , Mireille Mathieu , Jacques Brel , Georges Brassens , Gilbert Bécaud , Monique Serf (Barbara), Léo Ferré , Charles Aznavour , Salvatore Adamo ...
During the Ars Nova era of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the trend towards writing polyphonic music extended to non-Church music. In the fifteenth century, more secular music emerged, such as the French chanson. In the late sixteenth-century, composers attempted to recreate Greek drama using a style called monody.
Later 19th-century composers of French art songs, known as mélodie and not chanson, included Ernest Chausson, Emmanuel Chabrier, Gabriel Fauré, and Claude Debussy, while many 20th-century and current French composers have continued this strong tradition.
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The popularity of French music in the rest of Europe declined slightly, yet the popular chanson and the old motet were further developed during this time. The epicenter of French music moved from Paris to Burgundy, as it followed the Burgundian School of composers. During the Baroque period, music was simplified and restricted due to Calvinist ...
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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.
Music of France, music of the French people in France; French music may also refer to the music of French-speaking countries: Music of Quebec, music of the French-Canadians in Canada, most often Québécois or Acadians; Music of Belgium; Music of Switzerland; Music of Monaco; Music of Luxembourg; French styles of music may refer ta: French ...