Chansons

In these rough-hewn romances, the poet relates four or five couplets of varied rhythm, but all ending with the same refrain, an adventure of war or of love; they are called chansons de toile (spinning songs) or chansons de danse, because women sang them either as they spun and chatted or as they danced rondes. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

He began with fairly traditional "chansons" but quickly began to experiment and over the next ❋ Unknown (2010)

Such songs, also called "romances", or "chansons d'histoire", are a very ancient form of French literature. ❋ Unknown (2009)

By the way, in the Middle Ages, the women used to sing some "chansons de toile", (adventure, love story) while weaving and spinning cloth/linen. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An itinerant upbringing in Morocco and later Paris, along with influences such as Malian desert rock, French chansons, and American hip-hop, helped shape her mellifluous sound. ❋ Unknown (2011)

May 2nd, 2010 at 10: 27 pm ma fiile de 2ans et demi ecoute beaucoup cette chansons c est une bonne approche pour l anglais kidsfactory ❋ Unknown (2010)

A woman with long white hair, tattered sundress, and gauze patch over one eye, Mardi Gras beads around her neck, walks in circles around my bench, singing old chansons. ❋ Mira Bartók (2011)

Two of them were sprawled upon Malemute Kid's bunk, singing chansons which their French forbears sang in the days when first they entered the Northwest-land and mated with its Indian women. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the Roman amphitheater, the well-known Spanish actress Victoria Abril was giving a flamenco-inflected concert of French chansons. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The financial crisis was blamed for driving people to smoking and a radio show rolled out chansons from 1938 onward in which suitably husky-voiced singers hymned the need for nicotine to get through hard times. ❋ Lennox Morrison (2010)

It is this quality that makes Les chansons d'amour a good film - if not necessarily a good musical. ❋ Unknown (2007)

By the way, in the Middle Ages, the women used to sing some "chansons de toile", adventure, love story while weaving and spinning cloth / linen. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Performing a whimsical mix of popular German chansons and original compositions alongside Cuban rumbas, cheery foxtrots, elegant tangos and covers of modern pop songs, Palast has earned rave reviews and standing ovations in glamorous concert halls across the globe. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Instead he stuck with an almost defiant menu of Tin Pan Alley evergreens; sharp, spiky Jacques Brel chansons translated to english by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman, second-tier show tunes, and his own compositions: baroque, many-splendored and increasingly eccentric pillow fights of song that were fast coming to dominate those eponymous LPs he was spinning out on the Philips label, one after another, with striking momentum. ❋ Unknown (2009)

J'aime les chansons de marins, mais j'adore Gaspard plus : ❋ Marina Geigert (2009)