Burgundian chanson

song : song. specifically : a music-hall or cabaret song.

Most secular chansons by Burgundian composers were for three voices, with the main melody usually in the cantus and with larger ranges for each voice than in the previous century. The foremost composers of the Burgundian style were Guillaume Du Fay (ca. 1397–1474) and Gilles de Bins, known as Binchois (ca.

Musical style and forms The most prominent secular forms used by the Burgundians were the four formes fixes (rondeau, ballade, virelai, and bergerette), all generically known as chansons. Of the four, the rondeau was by far the most popular; at any rate more rondeaux have survived than any other form.

…as a musical genre, the polyphonic chanson, or secular song, is the most characteristic expression of the Burgundian school. Its clear musical structure is based on the stanza patterns of the ballade, rondeau, and virelai, written in the traditional fixed forms of French poetry.

Chanson music refers to various eras of French song, from the monophonic chant of the Middle Ages to the polyphonic singing of the Renaissance. Modern chanson music connects nineteenth-century cabaret music in Paris to contemporary pop music. Each iteration of chanson offers distinctive characteristics.

Two important composers of the Burgundian chanson were Johannes Ockeghem (1410-1497) and Roland de Lassus (1532-1594).

The Burgundians (Latin: Burgundes, Burgundiōnes, Burgundī; Old Norse: Burgundar; Old English: Burgendas; Greek: Βούργουνδοι) were an early Germanic tribe or group of tribes. They appeared in the middle Rhine region, near the Roman Empire, and were later moved into the empire, in eastern Gaul.

Although Guillaume Dufay (q.v.), the most illustrious Burgundian composer, was probably never a regular member of the chapel, he was associated with the ducal court at Dijon as a musician and chaplain.

An example of polyphony would be the song "This Is How We Do It" by Montell Jordan. Another great example of polyphony would be "Ghetto Gospel" by Tupac. Both of these songs have interdependent choruses which align with the hip hop style of each of the artists, illustrating counterpoint.

Chanson is the French word for "song". The word is often used in music to mean any song with French words, but it is more often used when talking about songs in which lyrics have been set to music by French classical composers.

The Burgundians were a Scandinavian people whose original homeland lay on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea, where the island of Bornholm (Burgundarholm in the Middle Ages) still bears their name.

Burgundy This Gaulish domain became the Kingdom of the Burgundians. This later became a component of the Frankish Empire. The name of this kingdom survives in the regional appellation, Burgundy, which is a region in modern France, representing only a part of that kingdom.