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65-605: Fauxbourdon (also fauxbordon , and also commonly two words: faux bourdon or faulx bourdon , and in Italian falso bordone ) – French for false drone – is a technique of musical harmonisation used in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance , particularly by composers of the Burgundian School . Guillaume Du Fay was a prominent practitioner of the form (as was John Dunstaple ), and may have been its inventor. The homophony and mostly parallel harmony allows

130-497: A bombard and a biniou (bagpipe), is usually played at festoù-noz ( Fest Noz ) celebrations (some are famous, such as Printemps de Chateauneuf Archived 2004-03-31 at the Wayback Machine ). It is swift dance music and has an older vocal counterpart called kan ha diskan . Unaccompanied call and response singing was interspersed with the gwerz , a form of ballad . Probably the most popular form of Breton folk

195-496: A music festival held annually near Châteauroux , has been a focal point for the music of Auvergne and Limousin. The regions of Morvan and Nivernais have produced some traditional stars, including Faubourg de Boignard and Les Ménétriers du Morvan , respectively. The Nivernais collector Achille Millien was also notable in the early part of the 20th century. The music of the French Basque Country (east of

260-435: A capella , completed in 1908. Maurice Ravel wrote Trois Chansons for choir a cappella after the outbreak of World War I as a return to French tradition, published in 1916. In France today chanson or chanson française is distinguished from the rest of French "pop" music by following the rhythms of French language, rather than those of English, and a higher standard for lyrics. In La Planche , Loire-Atlantique ,

325-472: A few. Corsican polyphonic singing is perhaps the most unusual of the French regional music varieties. Sung by male trios, it is strongly harmonic and occasionally dissonant. Works can be either spiritual or secular. Modern groups include Canta u Populu Corsu , I Muvrini , Tavagna and Chjami Aghjalesi ; some groups have been associated with Corsican nationalism . Corsican musical instruments include

390-558: A jazz musician in the 1950s and spanned several eras of French popular music including pop, rock, reggae, new wave, disco and even hip hop. Musette is a style of French music and dance that became popular in Paris in the 1880s. Musette uses the accordion as main instrument, and often symbolizes the French art of living abroad. Émile Vacher (1883-1969) was the star of the new style. Other popular musette accordionists include Aimable Pluchard , Yvette Horner and André Verchuren . In 2001,

455-659: A master of ceremonies. The first cabaret was opened in 1881 in Montmartre , Paris, by Rodolphe Salis and was called Le Chat Noir (The Black Cat). Built in 1889, Moulin Rouge is famous for the large red windmill on its roof. Other popular French cabarets include the Folies Bergère and Le Lido . Cabarets were a key venue in the careers of many singers such as Mistinguett , Josephine Baker , Charles Trenet and Edith Piaf . More recently, Patricia Kaas embodies

520-410: A mechanical violin, with keys or buttons instead of a fingerboard. It is made up of a curved, oval body, a set of keys and a curved handle, which is turned and connected to a wheel which bows the strings that are stopped by the keys. There is a moveable bridge, a variable number of drones and optional sympathetic strings . Other forms of the hurdy-gurdy are found all over Europe. The bagpipe is found in

585-509: A member of the Duo Chabenat-Paris , who use elements such as mixed polyphonic ensembles and melodies based on the bourrée. Bernard Blanc and Jean Blanchard, along with Éric Montbel from Lyon, were among the musicians who formed the basis of La Bamboche and Le Grand Rouge . It was these two bands who did more than anyone to revitalize the traditions of Central France during the 1970s folk revival . The festival of St. Chartier ,

650-410: A more experimental approach. These performers refer to a former tradition collected and restored by figures such as Etxahun Iruri (1908–1979) where singing improviser poets ( bertsolaris ) played an important role in popular culture. This bertsolari tradition relies almost exclusively on younger generations, and efforts are being made now to restore it along the lines of the "southern" tradition, i.e. of

715-602: A pervading imitation (all voices sharing material and moving at similar speeds), similar to that found in contemporary motets and liturgical music. The first book of music printed from movable type was Harmonice Musices Odhecaton , a collection of ninety-six chansons by many composers, published in Venice in 1501 by Ottaviano Petrucci . Beginning in the late 1520s through mid-century, Claudin de Sermisy , Pierre Certon , Clément Janequin , and Philippe Verdelot were composers of so-called Parisian chansons , which also abandoned

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780-400: A professional class of jongleurs or ménestrels . These usually recounted the famous deeds ( geste ) of past heroes, legendary and semi-historical. The Song of Roland is the most famous of these, but in general the chansons de geste are studied as literature since very little of their music survives. The chanson courtoise or grand chant was an early form of monophonic chanson ,

845-470: A prominent opera composer, wrote an influential treatise on musical theory, especially in the subject of harmony ; he also introduced the clarinet into his orchestras. In the late Renaissance and early Baroque period, a type of popular secular vocal music called Air de cour spread throughout France. The first French opera may be Akébar roi du Mogol , first performed in Carpentras in 1646. It

910-407: A significant number of polyphonic chansons. A broad term, the word chanson literally means " song " in French and can thus less commonly refer to a variety of (usually secular ) French genres throughout history. This includes the songs of chansonnier , chanson de geste and Grand chant ; court songs of the late Renaissance and early Baroque music periods, air de cour ; popular songs from

975-539: A structural tenor. These works are typically still 3 voices, with an active upper voice (discantus) pitched above two lower voices (tenor and altus) usually sharing the same range. Musicologist David Fallows includes the Burgundian repertoire in A Catalogue of Polyphonic Songs 1415–1480. Later 15th- and early 16th-century figures in the genre included Johannes Ockeghem and Josquin des Prez , whose works cease to be constrained by formes fixes and begin to feature

1040-453: A wide array of forms in France. The cabrette and grande cornemuse from Auvergne and Berry are best known. These forms are found at least as far back as the 17th century. Prominent bagpipers include Bernard Blanc , Frédéric Paris and Philippe Prieur , as well as bandleader Jean Blanchard of La Grande Bande de Cornemuses and Quintette de Cornemuses . Frédéric Paris is also known as

1105-463: Is also known for his love songs ("La maladie d'amour", "Je vais t'aimer"). Chanson A chanson ( UK : / ˈ ʃ ɒ̃ s ɒ̃ / , US : / ʃ ɑː n ˈ s ɔː n / ; French: chanson française [ʃɑ̃sɔ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] , lit.   ' French song ' ) is generally any lyric -driven French song. The term is most commonly used in English to refer either to

1170-501: Is in a motet by Du Fay, Supremum est mortalibus , which was written for the treaty reconciling the differences between Pope Eugene IV and Sigismund , after which Sigismund was crowned as Holy Roman Emperor , which happened on 31 May 1433. In this motet, which is for four voices, when the tenor—the lowest voice—drops out, the upper three voices proceed in fauxbourdon. Even though its first use appears to have been in Italy, fauxbourdon

1235-625: Is the bagad pipe band, which features native instruments such as biniou and bombard alongside drums and, in more modern groups, biniou braz pipes. Modern revivalists include Kevrenn Alre Bagad and Bagad Kemper . Alan Stivell is perhaps the most influential folk-rock performer of continental Europe. After 1971's Renaissance of the Celtic Harp , Breton and other Celtic traditional music achieved mainstream success internationally. With Dan Ar Braz , he then released Chemins de Terre (1974), which launched Breton folk-rock. This set

1300-579: The caramusa ( cornemuse bagpipe), cetera (16-stringed lute ), mandulina ( mandolin ), pifana (a type of gemshorn ) and urganettu (diatonic accordion ). The 20th century saw the apogee of the Cabaret style with Yvette Guilbert as a major star. The era lasted through to the 1930s and saw the likes of Édith Piaf , Charles Trenet , Maurice Chevalier , Tino Rossi , Félix Mayol , Lucienne Boyer , Marie-Louise Damien , Marie Dubas , Fréhel , Georges Guibourg and Jean Sablon . During

1365-573: The Basque Country ) should be considered against a Pyrenean cultural background. Up to recent times and still ttun-ttun and xirula should be highlighted in traditional folk music (especially in the province of Soule ) as a tabor and pipe like pair. Mixel Etxekopar or Jean Mixel Bedaxagar have played a major role in Basque traditional music as xirula players as well as traditional singers. Other popular performers such as Benat Achiary take on

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1430-684: The Notre Dame School , an organum composition style. Troubadour songs of chivalry and courtly love were composed in the Occitan language between the 10th and 13th centuries, and the Trouvère poet-composers flourished in Northern France during this period. The fiddle was their instrument of choice. By the end of the 12th century, a form of song called the motet arose, accompanied by traveling musicians called jongleurs . In

1495-648: The Pays de Nantes , the provinces of Vendée , Anjou and Maine , and the Poitou-Charentes region. Traditions of ballad -singing, dance-songs and fiddle -playing have survived, predominantly in Poitou and the Vendée. Jérôme Bujeaud collected extensively in the area, and his 2-volume work "Chants et chansons populaires des provinces de l'ouest: Poitou , Saintonge , Aunis et Angoumois " ( Niort , 1866) remains

1560-566: The Spanish Basque Country . Music from the Basque Country nowadays caters to almost all the tastes of music, with a wide range of music being played in Basque, from choral music ( Oldarra in Biarritz ) to elaborate music bands (e.g. Bidaia) to ska or hardcore trends, while it is much praised lately for the fine bare voices that have arisen with the likes of Maddi Oihenart, Maialen Errotabehere or Amaren Alabak, to mention but

1625-449: The formes fixes , often featured four voices, and were in a simpler, more homophonic style. This genre sometimes featured music that was meant to be evocative of certain imagery such as birds or the marketplace. Many of these Parisian works were published by Pierre Attaingnant . Composers of their generation, as well as later composers, such as Orlando de Lassus , were influenced by the Italian madrigal . French solo song developed in

1690-629: The 14th century, France produced two notable styles of music, Ars Nova and Ars Subtilior Burgundy , which was the mostly French -speaking area unified with the Kingdom of France in 1477, had become a major center for musical development in the musical continent Europe. This was followed by the rise of chansons and the Burgundian School . Influential composers included Jean-Baptiste Lully , Marc-Antoine Charpentier , Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre , Louis Couperin , François Couperin and Jacques Champion de Chambonnières . Jean Philippe Rameau ,

1755-520: The 16th century. Sometimes, the singers were accompanied by instruments . The first important composer of chansons was Guillaume de Machaut , who composed three-voice works in the formes fixes during the 14th century. Two composers from Burgundy , Guillaume Du Fay and Gilles Binchois , who wrote so-called Burgundian chansons , dominated the subsequent generation of chanson composers ( c.  1420–1470 ). Their chansons, while somewhat simple in style, are also generally in three voices with

1820-444: The 17th to 19th century, bergerette , brunette , chanson pour boire , pastourelle , and vaudeville ; art song of the romantic era, mélodie ; and folk music, chanson populaire  [ fr ] . Since the 1990s, the term may be used for Nouvelle Chanson , a French song that often contains poetic or political content. The earliest chansons were the epic poems performed to simple monophonic melodies by

1885-593: The 18th century, vocal music in France was dominated by opera , but solo song underwent a renaissance in the 19th century, first with salon melodies and then by mid-century with highly sophisticated works influenced by the German Lieder , which had been introduced into the country. Louis Niedermeyer , under the particular spell of Schubert , was a pivotal figure in this movement, followed by Édouard Lalo , Felicien David and many others. Another offshoot of chanson , called chanson réaliste (realist song),

1950-667: The 1970s, new artists modernized the chanson Française ( Michel Fugain , Renaud , Francis Cabrel , Alain Souchon , Jacques Higelin , Alain Chamfort , Joe Dassin ) and also in the 80s ( Étienne Daho , Têtes Raides ) till now ( Benjamin Biolay , Zaz , Vincent Delerm , Bénabar , Jean-Louis Murat , Miossec , Juliette, Mano Solo , Jacques Higelin, Matthieu Chedid , Mathieu Boogaerts , Daniel Darc , Maurane , Christina Goh , Renan Luce ). Singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg began as

2015-632: The 50s and 60s, it was the golden age of Chanson Française : Juliette Gréco , Mireille Mathieu , Georges Brassens , Jacques Brel , Gilbert Bécaud , Monique Serf (Barbara), Léo Ferré , Charles Aznavour and Alain Barrière . The Yéyé style was popular in the 1950s and 60s with Sheila , Claude François and Françoise Hardy . Cabaret is a typical form of French musical entertainment featuring chanson , music , dance , comedy and spectacles . The audience usually sits at tables, often dining or drinking, and performances are sometimes introduced by

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2080-461: The Auvergne and Limousin retained the most vibrant folk traditions of the area. As an example of the area's diversity, the bourrée can come in either duple or triple meter; the latter is found in the south of the region, and is usually improvised with bagpipes and hurdy-gurdy, while the former is found in the north and includes virtuoso players. The hurdy-gurdy, or vielle-à-roue , is essentially

2145-759: The Underworld is the tune most associated with the Cancan . The Cancan first appeared in the working-class ballrooms of Montparnasse in Paris in around 1830. It was a more lively version of the Galop , a dance in quick 2/4 time , which often featured as the final figure in the Quadrille . Chanson Française is the typical style of French music (chanson means "song" in French) and is still very popular in France. Some of

2210-570: The West of France include the courante , or maraichine, and the bal saintongeais. Bourrées in triple time have been noted in the 19th century by Bujeaud, and more recently, in Angoumois. Circle- or chain-dances accompanied by caller-and-response singing have been noted in the West, and also in other regions such as Gascony , Normandy and Brittany . Notable contemporary folk musicians include Christian Pacher and Claude Ribouillault (Poitou) and

2275-543: The best-known and most popular operas. Claude Balbastre was an organist, harpsichordist and fortepianist. He was one of the most famous musicians of his time. Henri-Montan Berton , son of Pierre, is principally remembered as a composer of operas, most of which were first performed at the Opéra-Comique. Chélard earned his living for much of his career as a violist at the Paris Opera. His 1827 opera Macbeth

2340-462: The better-known performers of the genre are Damia , Fréhel , and Édith Piaf . 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. In the 20th century, French composers revived the genre. Claude Debussy composed Trois Chansons for choir

2405-419: The chief lyric poetic genre of the trouvères . It was an adaptation to Old French of the Occitan canso . It was practised in the 12th and 13th centuries. Thematically, as its name implies, it was a song of courtly love , written usually by a man to his noble lover. Some later chansons were polyphonic and some had refrains and were called chansons avec des refrains . In its typical specialized usage,

2470-421: The earlist known sound recording device in the world, the phonautograph , which was patented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1857. France is also the 5th largest market by value in the world, and its music industry has produced many internationally renowned artists, especially in the nouvelle chanson and electronic music . French music history dates back to organum in the 10th century, followed by

2535-482: The ends of phrases, faburden was a schematic method of harmonization of an existing chant; in the case of faburden, the chant was in the middle voice. Music of France In France , music reflects a diverse array of styles. In the field of classical music , France has produced several 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 in France using

2600-505: The fauxbourdon technique. In a hymn , the term is sometimes used when the congregation sings in parallel octaves , with some singers singing a descant over the melody, but the term was historically used to indicate an arrangement of the tune in four parts with the melody in the tenor voice, such as those composed by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English composers including John Dowland , Giles Farnaby , and Thomas Ravenscroft . The earliest explicit example of fauxbourdon may be in

2665-441: The first actual use of the term, in the closing part of his Missa Sancti Jacobi . It is possible that his use of the word "bourdon" was intended as a pun on St. James' "staff" (which Du Fay, or the copyist, drew in miniature above the music). Cividale, Museo Civico MS 101 has a work "O salutaris hostia" (f. 82v) which seems to be a work of fauxbourdon, but not labelled as such. The earliest definitely datable example of fauxbourdon

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2730-592: The group La Marienne (Vendée.) Distinctly Celtic in character, the folk music of Lower Brittany has had perhaps the most successful revival of its traditions, partly thanks to the city of Lorient , which hosts France's most popular music festival: Festival Interceltique de Lorient . The documented history of Breton music begins with the publication of Barzaz-Breizh in 1839. A collection of folk songs compiled by Hersart de la Villemarqué , Barzaz-Breizh re-branded and promoted Breton traditions and helped ensure their continuity. Sonneurs couples, consisting of

2795-446: The late 16th century, probably from the aforementioned Parisian works. 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. During

2860-470: The major French composers of the time, and one of the most innovative composers of the early Romantic era, was Hector Berlioz . In the late 19th century, pioneers such as Georges Bizet , Jules Massenet , Gabriel Fauré , Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy revitalized French music. The last two had an enormous impact on 20th-century music - both in France and abroad - and influenced many major composers such as Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky . Erik Satie

2925-430: The manuscript I-BC Q15 ( Bologna , Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica, MS Q15 ), compiled around 1435, which contains several examples, including one by Du Fay dating probably to around 1430. Since many early 15th century compositions are anonymous, and dating is often problematic, exact determination of the authorship of the earliest fauxbourdon is difficult. Du Fay's contribution to this collection contains

2990-406: 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 and Dalida plus the more art-house musicians like Brigitte Fontaine . Also during the 1950s one of the more representative of Montmartre cabaret singers was Suzanne Robert . During

3055-402: The most successful, including Gwerz , Bleizi Ruz , Strobinell , Sonerien Du and Tud . Central France includes the regions of Auvergne , Limousin , Morvan , Nivernais , Bourbonnais and Berry . The lands are the home to a significant bagpipe tradition, as well as the iconic hurdy-gurdy and the dance bourrée . There are deep differences between the regions of Central France, with

3120-470: The musette-style was a huge international success through the album Amélie composed by Yann Tiersen . Yéyé is a style of popular music that emerged from France in the early 1960s. The yé-yé movement had its origins in the radio programme Salut les copains , which was first aired in October 1959. Most famous Yéyé stars include Johnny Hallyday , Eddy Mitchell , Richard Anthony , Dick Rivers and

3185-752: The popular girls such as France Gall , Sheila , Sylvie Vartan , and artists who fuse various music genres such as Chantal Goya , Dalida or Claude François . These were popular female teen idols , and included Françoise Hardy , who was the first to write her own songs. The more commercial and pop part of Chanson is called Variété in French, and included Vanessa Paradis , Patricia Kaas , Patrick Bruel , Marc Lavoine , Pascal Obispo , Florent Pagny , Francis Cabrel , Étienne Daho , Alain Souchon , Laurent Voulzy and Jean-Jacques Goldman . The superstar status of diva Mylène Farmer inspired pop-rock performers such as Zazie , Lorie , Alizée , and R&B singers like Nâdiya and Ophelie Winter . More recently,

3250-451: The principal scholarly collection of music and songs. In recent decades John Wright and Claude Ribouillault (amongst others) have done much to collect, analyse and promote the surviving traditions. The Marais Breton of Vendée is noted particularly for its tradition of veuze playing - which has been revived by the bagpipe -maker and player Thierry Bertrand - and for traditional singers such as Pierre Burgaud. Folk dances specific to

3315-476: The revival of the French cabaret style. The Cancan , also called French-Cancan , is a high-energy and physically demanding musical dance, traditionally performed by a chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes with long skirts, petticoats, and black stockings. The main features of the dance are the lifting and manipulation of the skirts, with high kicking and suggestive, provocative body movements. The Infernal Galop from Jacques Offenbach 's Orpheus in

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3380-439: The secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music or to a specific style of French pop music which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. The genre had origins in the monophonic songs of troubadours and trouvères , though the only polyphonic precedents were 16 works by Adam de la Halle and one by Jehan de Lescurel . Not until the ars nova composer Guillaume de Machaut did any composer write

3445-758: The spectralist composers in the 1970s are only recently beginning to achieve wide recognition in the United States; major composers in this vein include Gérard Grisey , Tristan Murail , and Claude Vivier . Traditional styles of music have survived most in remote areas such as the island of Corsica and mountainous Auvergne, as well as the more nationalistic regions of the Basques and the Bretons . In many cases, folk traditions were revived in relatively recent years to cater to tourists. These groupes folkloriques tend to focus on very early 20th-century melodies and

3510-721: The stage for stars such as Malicorne in the ensuing decades. In later years much has been done to collect and popularize the musical traditions of the Pays Gallo of Upper Brittany , for which the singer Bertran Ôbrée , his group Ôbrée Alie and the association DASTUM must take much credit. The songs of Upper Brittany are either in French or in Gallo . Modern Breton folk music includes harpists such as Anne-Marie Jan , Anne Auffret and Myrdhin , while singers Kristen Nikolas , Andrea Ar Gouilh and Yann-Fanch Kemener have become mainstream stars. Instrumental bands, however, have been

3575-422: The success of musical television shows have spawned a new generation of young pop-music stars including Nolwenn Leroy , Grégory Lemarchal , Christophe Willem , Julien Doré and Élodie Frégé . The French-Caribbean singer Shy'm enjoys a status of popstar in France since her first album in 2006, as well as her male counterpart Matt Pokora . Notable pop-rock groups include Niagara and Indochine . Michel Sardou

3640-414: The text of the mostly liturgical lyrics to be understood clearly. In its simplest form, fauxbourdon consists of the cantus firmus and two other parts a sixth and a perfect fourth below. To prevent monotony, or create a cadence , the lowest voice sometimes jumps down to the octave, and any of the accompanying voices may have minor embellishments. Usually just a small part of a composition employs

3705-409: The use of the piano accordion . In 1900 in Paris, a new style of waltz emerged, the "Valse musette" an evolution of Bal-musette also known as "French Waltz". Aimable, Émile Vacher , Marcel Azzola , Yvette Horner , André Verchuren were famous accordionists who played valse musette. There is also Yann Tiersen and its Amélie (soundtrack) of Amélie from Montmartre. The West of France comprises

3770-415: The word chanson refers to a polyphonic French song of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Early chansons tended to be in one of the formes fixes — ballade , rondeau or virelai (formerly the chanson baladée )—though some composers later set popular poetry in a variety of forms. The earliest chansons were for two, three or four voices, with first three becoming the norm, expanding to four voices by

3835-401: Was Cadmus from 1673. Lully's forays into operatic tragedy were accompanied by the pinnacle of French theatrical tragedy, led by Corneille and Racine . Lully also developed the common beat patterns used by conductors to this day and was the first to take the role of leading the orchestra from the position of the first violin. The French composer Georges Bizet composed Carmen , one of

3900-528: Was a flop in Paris, but a great success in Munich. Jeanne-Hippolyte Devismes married the director of the Paris Opéra. Her only known works are a song, "La Dame Jacinthe", and an opera, Praxitėle, which was a success and ran for 16 performances. Harpsichordist and composer Jacques Duphly contributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau dictionary, for articles relating to the art of playing the harpsichord. One of

3965-431: Was a leading figure of Serialism while Messiaen incorporated Asian (particularly Indian) influences and bird song and Dutilleux translated the innovations of Debussy, Bartók and Stravinsky into his own, very personal, musical idiom. The most important French contribution to musical innovation of the past 35 years is a form of computer-assisted composition called " spectral music ". The astonishing technical advances of

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4030-418: Was a popular musical genre in France, primarily from the 1880s until the end of World War II. Born of the cafés-concerts and cabarets of the Montmartre district of Paris and influenced by literary realism and the naturalist movements in literature and theatre, chanson réaliste was a musical style which was mainly performed by women and dealt with the lives of Paris's poor and working class. Among

4095-414: Was also a very significant composer from that era. His music is difficult to classify. The early 20th century saw neo-classical music flourish in France, especially composers such as Lili Boulanger , Nadia Boulanger , Albert Roussel and Les Six , a group of musicians who gathered around Satie. Later in the century, Olivier Messiaen , Henri Dutilleux and Pierre Boulez proved influential. The latter

4160-611: Was followed by the team of Pierre Perrin and Cambert , whose Pastoral in Music , performed in Issy , was a success, and the pair moved to Paris to produce Pomone (1671) and Les Peines et les Plaisirs de l'Amour (1672). Jean-Baptiste Lully , who had become well known for composing ballets for Louis XIV , began creating a French version of the Italian opera seria , a kind of tragic opera known as tragédie lyrique or tragédie en musique - see ( French lyric tragedy ). His first

4225-637: Was to become a defining characteristic of the Burgundian style which flourished in the Low Countries through the middle of the 15th century. Composers such as Gilles Binchois , Antoine Busnois , and Johannes Brassart all frequently used the technique, always adapting it to their personal styles. A related, but separate, development took place in England in the 15th century, called faburden . While superficially similar, especially in that it involved chains of 6–3 chords with octave-fifth consonances at

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