chanson

La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland) is dated to between 1129 and 1165.

The gulag definitely helped it spread, as did the chanson style singers in the 90s.

I also just took a random sentence from the Chanson de Roland (c.

The success of the chanson was sudden and overwhelming.

Rock'n'roll may have been mostly dance music, but Jazz, Folk, Blues, Chanson etc.

It's also a renaissance French chanson for 4 voices.

Oh and I forgot the medieval Chanson which is ever earlier.

N’i ad castel ki devant lui remaigne; Mur ne citet n’i est remés a fraindre, Relative to modern French and English, the French of Chanson de Roland is comparable to the English of Chaucer.

* Chanson Eloignee, by Morten Lauridsen.

On the afternoon before her last concert, she summarized the impressions she had gathered over the past few days, which had been unexpectedly positive, in the rough version of the chanson Göttingen, which she wrote in the garden of the Junges Theater, and performed it (not yet fully formulated and with a different melody) that same evening.

Nobody in French would call Debussy's Clair de Lune "une chanson", why should the English language be oversimplified?

Driver usually smokes while driving and listens loudly to songs about criminal life ("Russian chanson").

Mostly "Russian chanson" music — songs about jail life and "thieves romanticism", lowest grade pop music and propaganda news.

My native tongue is French, so in my case it was Rabelais' "Gargantua" (~1500) and "La Chanson de Roland" (~1100).

Classical music has many styles (Renaissance, Classical, Romantic, Chanson, Bel Canto...) and they are all as teachable as popular styles.