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Noun
/SHäNˈsôn/,
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chansons, plural;
  1. A French song

  1. A chanson ("song", from Latin cantio) is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular. ...
  2. Chanson was an American studio based disco group from the late 1970s, led by James Jamerson Jr. (son of the sideman, James Jamerson) and David Williams. The group took their name from the French word for song. ...
  3. Any song with French words, but more specifically classic, lyric-driven French songs; A religious song
  4. (chansons) (in  chamber music: Sources and instruments)
  5. any French-texted secular song. Trouvère chansons--which were strophic--often followed the internal a a b form of the troubadour canso, but could also be through-composed (without any set musical structure) or follow one of the formes fixes. By the fourteenth century, formes fixes were the norm.
  6. 1) a classical "art song," equiv. to the German lied or the Italian aria; or 2) in Russian, a cabaret-style sung narrative, usually rendered by a guttural male voice with guitar accompaniment. In French, it simply means a song.
  7. 1965. Guit, clock spiral, viola. UE (rental)
  8. French for 'song'; in particular, a style of 14th-16th century French song for voice or voices, often with backing instrumental accompaniment.
  9. (French "song"): A love-song or French love-poem, especially one the Provençal troubadour poets created or performed. Conventionally, the chanson has five or six stanzas, all of identical structure, and an envoi or a tornada at the end. ...
  10. French for song; a song for one or two vocal lines and sometimes instrumental acompaniment.
  11. A song, usually secular. This term is usually applied to works composed during the medieval and Renaissance periods, though many twentieth-century composers have also applied the term to their own works.
  12. French polyphonic song of the Middle Ages and Renaissance set to either courtly or popular poetry.
  13. A (French) song or instrumental composition with a melodramatic character.
  14. (Fr., "song") A major part of the * troubadour-*trouvere tradition, dating from the eleventh through the fourteenth centuries. Also a generic term for a song with a French text.