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- A virelai is a form of medieval French verse used often in poetry and music. It is one of the three formes fixes (the others were the ballade and the...
- same texts. It is thus most similar to the French musical 'forme fixe' virelai (and not the ballade as the name might otherwise suggest). The first and...
- secular song forms (particularly the lai and the formes fixes: rondeau, virelai and ballade). Among his only surviving sacred works, Messe de Nostre Dame...
- corresponding musical chanson form. Together with the ballade and the virelai it was considered one of three formes fixes, and one of the verse forms...
- surviving works encomp****ing many forms, the three formes fixes rondeaux, virelais, ballades, as well as motets, lais and a single representative of the complainte...
- 14th century, by the French composer Guillaume de Machaut. The song is a virelai, belonging to the style ars nova, and is one of the most often heard medieval...
- rise to the three "formes fixes" (fixed forms): the rondeau, ballade, and virelai. The northern ars nova, a culmination of earlier secular monophony and...
- one of the three formes fixes (the other two were the rondeau and the virelai) and one of the verse forms in France most commonly set to music between...
- (fol. 23) ("Splendid ruler") Virelai: Mariam, Matrem Virginem, Attolite (fol. 25r) ("Praise Mary, the virgin mother") Virelai/danse: Polorum Regina (fol...
- formes fixes; three ballades, a virelai and rondeau. His best known and most often performed work in modern-times is the virelai and proto-battaglia: A l’arme...