• The Chanson de Guillaume, also called Chançun de Willame (English: "Song of William"), is a chanson de geste from the first half of the twelfth-century...
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    11th century: only three chansons de geste have a composition that incontestably dates from before 1150: the Chanson de Guillaume, The Song of Roland and...
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    hero of an entire cycle of chansons de geste, the earliest of which is the Chanson de Guillaume of about 1140. In the chansons, he is nicknamed Fièrebrace...
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  • chansons was Guillaume de Machaut, who composed three-voice works in the formes fixes during the 14th century. Two composers from Burgundy, Guillaume...
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    and hero of the epic poem Chanson de Guillaume Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of...
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  • commune Saint-Guillaume (disambiguation) Search for "Guillaume" on Wikipedia. Chanson de Guillaume, an 11th or 12th century poem Guillaume affair, a Cold...
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    (Guibert, Bernart, Guillaume, Garin, Hernaut, Beuve and Aymer), the most famous being Guillaume d'Orange, the hero of several popular chansons de geste. The "Aymeri"...
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    William of Gellone (755–812). This William is immortalized in the Chanson de Guillaume, and the esteem in which he was held may account for the name's subsequent...
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  • The Chanson de Guillaume is one of the oldest poems of this geste. The Geste de Doon de Mayence, in which the hero, as in the Geste de Guillaume, often...
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  • romance Syr Guy of Warwick, a Sultan swears an oath by Termagant In The Chanson de Roland, the Saracens, having lost the battle of Roncesvalles, desecrate...
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  • century. Along with The Song of Roland and the Chanson de Guillaume, it is one of the three chansons de geste whose composition incontestably dates from before...
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    Prise d'Orange (category Chansons de geste)
    Orange") is a mid-12th century chanson de geste written in Old French. Its fictional story follows the hero Guillaume as he captures the walled city of...
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    Saracens. Chanson de Guillaume (c. 1100) Couronnement de Louis (1130) Charroi de Nîmes (1140) Prise d'Orange (1150?) Aliscans (1165) Aymeri de Narbonne...
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    inspired in the chanson de geste, the Chanson de Guillaume: "Guillaume au Court-nez" (William the Short-Nosed) or its homophone "Guillaume au Cornet" (William...
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  • For the poem Aliscans is, in turn, likely derived from the earlier Chanson de Guillaume, inspired by a historic battle in 793 wherein the Carolingian figure...
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    Guillaume de Machaut (French: [ɡijom də maʃo], Old French: [ɡiˈʎawmə də maˈtʃaw(θ)]; also Machau and Machault; c. 1300 – April 1377) was a French composer...
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  • This is evident within the chansons de geste or songs of heroic deeds. Both the Chanson de Roland and the Chanson de Guillaume demonstrate Christian themes...
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  • La Geste de Garin de Monglane is the second cycle of the three great cycles of chansons de geste created in the early days of the genre. It centres on...
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    complainte, chanson royale, double hocket and mass genres. Most of his extant output is secular music, a notable exception being the renowned Messe de Nostre...
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    and arrangement work by Guillaume Poncelet on 2 albums : Chanson française and Les Hommes Sont Toujours Des Enfants. Guillaume is also the musical director...
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    ten-year-old monarch, and composer of chansons for the royal chamber. In 1570 he published Musique de Guillaume Costeley, which contains almost all of...
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  • famous songs from the film are "A Pair of Twins" ("Chanson des Jumelles") and Maxence's Song ("Chanson de Maxence"), which was later relyricized by Alan and...
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  • The Chanson de toile (also called chanson d'histoire or romance) was a genre of narrative Old French lyric poetry devised by the trouvères which flourished...
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  • Guillaume Chastillon de la Tour (fl. 1550-1610) was a French composer of airs de cour and chansons. He published three books of airs in 1590 at Caen. Revue...
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  • part of the cycle of chansons concerning Guillaume (or William) of Orange, generally referred to collectively as the Geste de Guillaume d'Orange. The poem...
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    Castilian epic poem about El Cid, Cantar de mio Cid, is written. (Approximate). The Chanson de Guillaume, a chanson de geste about William of Gellone, is written...
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    Pablo Picasso. La Chanson du mal-aimé, oratorio by Léo Ferré on Apollinaire's eponymous poem (from Alcools) Monostich Prix Guillaume Apollinaire His full...
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    de faire chanson Jeux-partis Amis Guillaume, ainc si sage ne vi with Adam de Givenchi Frere, ki fait mieus a proisier with Gilles le Vinier Guillaume...
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    (in Occitan, Guilhem de Tudela; in French, Guillaume de Tudèle; fl. 1199-1214) was the author of the first part of the Canso de la Crozada or Song of...
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  • to the Garin cycle include the chansons of Girart de Vienne, Aimeri de Narbonne, and Guillaume. Of these poems, Aimeri de Narbonne has the largest literary...
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