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- Sadness", a virelai ancien), and Henry Austin Dobson ("July", a virelai nouveau). List of virelais by Guillaume de Machaut Harding, Carol E. "Virelai (Virelay)"...
- output comprises around 400 poems, including 235 ballades, 76 rondeaux, 39 virelais, 24 lais, 10 complaintes, and 7 chansons royales, and Machaut did much...
- 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...
- the Provençal troubador tradition, such as secular monophonic lais and virelais. Jehan de Lescurel (or Jehannot de l'Escurel), a poet and composer from...
- Hanen - 1983 "The Virelai Texts - A virelai text which has but a single stanza is properly termed a bergerette. All the virelais in Escorial IV.a.24...
- The ars-nova style is evident in his considerable body of motets, lais, virelais, rondeaux and ballades. Towards the end of the fourteenth century, a new...
- Early chansons tended to be in one of the formes fixes—ballade, rondeau or virelai (formerly the chanson baladée)—though some composers later set po****r...
- as a refrain. The few surviving melodies of dansas seem like incipient virelais. The verses of the dansa were sung by a soloist while the refrain was sung...
- 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...
- 14th- and 15th-century French poetic forms: the ballade, rondeau, and virelai. Each was also a musical form, generally a chanson, and all consisted of...