chansons
Lyrics from Paris
Chansons is the French word for songs.
In English, it usually refers specifically to French lyric songs, particularly those of medieval troubadours or later French art songs: The concert featured chansons from the courts of Renaissance France.
The singular chanson appears in phrases like chanson de geste, medieval French epic poetry meant to be sung.
Traveling performer of songs
- bardPoet of epics
- courtlyRefined and dignified
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
- lutePear-bodied fretted strings
ballad · narrative · verses · stanzas · refrain · jongleur · canso · rondeau
French cabaret legend
- chanteurFrench male vocalist
- cabaretLive entertainment venue
- MontmartreHilltop artists' district in Paris
- musetteFrench folk aerophone
accordion · francophone · Paris · Jacques · Charles
Outdoor romantic performance
- amourRomantic liaison, often illicit
- passionIntense emotional drive
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- longingIntense, persistent desire
heartbreak · devotion · tenderness · melancholy · wistful · bittersweet · torch song · l'amour
Metrical literary composition
- verseMetered poetic passage
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- refrainAbstain from acting
- coupletTwo successive verse lines
meter · imagery · metaphor · wordplay · storytelling · narrative · strophes · chorus
Following long-held customs
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- oral-historyRecorded firsthand accounts
- regionalRelating to an area
Breton · Québécois · Cajun · Acadian · berceuse · drinking song · work song · sea shanty
minstrel
Traveling performer of songs
lute · ballad · narrative · verses · stanzas · refrain · jongleur · canso · rondeau · ballade
Piaf
French cabaret legend
- chanteurFrench male vocalist
- cabaretLive entertainment venue
- MontmartreHilltop artists' district in Paris
musette · accordion · francophone · Paris · Jacques · Charles
serenade
Outdoor romantic performance
longing · heartbreak · devotion · tenderness · melancholy · wistful · bittersweet · torch song · l'amour · nostalgia
poetry
Metrical literary composition
couplet · meter · imagery · metaphor · wordplay · storytelling · narrative · strophes · chorus · poetic
traditional
Following long-held customs
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- oral-historyRecorded firsthand accounts
regional · Breton · Québécois · Cajun · Acadian · berceuse · drinking song · work song · sea shanty · customs
- love poetrylove poems, love poem, love poetry, love sonnets, love sonnet
- vocal musicsong, vocals, soprano, tenor, alto
- vocal songslieder, folk ballads, love songs, ballads, spirituals
- worksmasterpieces, compositions, piece, pieces, work
- Medieval FranceValois, Philip II, Charles VII, Saint Louis, Joan of Arc
- Early Musicmedieval music, Renaissance music, motet, baroque music, troubadours
chansonslieder
Archaic word for songs
madrigals · ballads · fado · folk songs · spirituals
chansonsdrinking songs
Lyrics for toasting together
work songs · sea shanties · ditties · jingles · chants
chansonsinstrumentals
Music without lyrics
études · symphonies · concertos · sonatas · fugues
- chansons de gesteMedieval French epic poems