Chansonnier
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A chansonnier is a manuscript
or printed book which contains a collection of chanson
s, or polyphonic and monophonic
settings of songs, hence literally "song-books," although some manuscripts are so called even though they preserve the text but not the music (for example, the Cancioneiro da Vaticana
and Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional
, which contain the bulk of Galician-Portuguese lyric
). The most important chansonniers contain lyrics, poems and songs of the troubadour
s and trouvère
s of the Middle Ages. Prior to 1420, many song-books contained both sacred and secular music, one exception being those containing the work of Guillaume de Machaut
. Around 1420, sacred and secular music was segregated into separate sources, with large choirbooks containing sacred music, and smaller chansonniers for more private use by the privileged. Chansonniers were compiled primarily in France
, but also in Italy
, Germany
and in the Iberian peninsula
.
A singer of chansons could also be called a chansonnier.
In Quebec, Canada: "Is called 'Chansonnier' a poet songwriter, solitary singer, who sings his own songs (chansons) with a guitar, during the 1960's and 1970's. Compared to the popular singer, the chansonnier needs no artifice to sing his soul poetry. He performs in «Les Boites à Chansons» . . which are flourishing in those years. His themes songs vary but include nature, love, simplcity, and a social interest to improve his world. The chansonnier is making way for social and political awareness during the Quiet Revolution
, (La Révolution Tranquille) that leads to the affirmation of Quebeckers national identity
.
Manuscript
A manuscript or handwrite is written information that has been manually created by someone or some people, such as a hand-written letter, as opposed to being printed or reproduced some other way...
or printed book which contains a collection of chanson
Chanson
A chanson is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular. A singer specialising in chansons is known as a "chanteur" or "chanteuse" ; a collection of chansons, especially from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, is also known as a chansonnier.-Chanson de geste:The...
s, or polyphonic and monophonic
Monophony
In music, monophony is the simplest of textures, consisting of melody without accompanying harmony. This may be realized as just one note at a time, or with the same note duplicated at the octave . If the entire melody is sung by two voices or a choir with an interval between the notes or in...
settings of songs, hence literally "song-books," although some manuscripts are so called even though they preserve the text but not the music (for example, the Cancioneiro da Vaticana
Cancioneiro da Vaticana
The Cancioneiro da Vaticana is a compilation of troubadour lyrics in Galician-Portuguese. It was discovered c. 1840 in the holdings of the Vatican Library and was first transcribed by Ernesto Monaci in 1875....
and Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional
Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional
The Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional , commonly called Colocci-Brancuti, is a compilation of Galician-Portuguese lyrics by both troubadours and jograes...
, which contain the bulk of Galician-Portuguese lyric
Galician-Portuguese lyric
In the Middle Ages, the Galician-Portuguese lyric, sometimes called trovadorismo in Portugal and trobadorismo in Galicia, was a lyric poetic school or movement. All told, there are around 1680 texts in the so-called "secular lyric" or lírica profana...
). The most important chansonniers contain lyrics, poems and songs of the troubadour
Troubadour
A troubadour was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages . Since the word "troubadour" is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a trobairitz....
s and trouvère
Trouvère
Trouvère , sometimes spelled trouveur , is the Northern French form of the word trobador . It refers to poet-composers who were roughly contemporary with and influenced by the troubadours but who composed their works in the northern dialects of France...
s of the Middle Ages. Prior to 1420, many song-books contained both sacred and secular music, one exception being those containing the work of Guillaume de Machaut
Guillaume de Machaut
Guillaume de Machaut was a Medieval French poet and composer. He is one of the earliest composers on whom significant biographical information is available....
. Around 1420, sacred and secular music was segregated into separate sources, with large choirbooks containing sacred music, and smaller chansonniers for more private use by the privileged. Chansonniers were compiled primarily in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, but also in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and in the Iberian peninsula
Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula , sometimes called Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes the modern-day sovereign states of Spain, Portugal and Andorra, as well as the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar...
.
A singer of chansons could also be called a chansonnier.
In Quebec, Canada: "Is called 'Chansonnier' a poet songwriter, solitary singer, who sings his own songs (chansons) with a guitar, during the 1960's and 1970's. Compared to the popular singer, the chansonnier needs no artifice to sing his soul poetry. He performs in «Les Boites à Chansons» . . which are flourishing in those years. His themes songs vary but include nature, love, simplcity, and a social interest to improve his world. The chansonnier is making way for social and political awareness during the Quiet Revolution
Quiet Revolution
The Quiet Revolution was the 1960s period of intense change in Quebec, Canada, characterized by the rapid and effective secularization of society, the creation of a welfare state and a re-alignment of politics into federalist and separatist factions...
, (La Révolution Tranquille) that leads to the affirmation of Quebeckers national identity
National identity
National identity is the person's identity and sense of belonging to one state or to one nation, a feeling one shares with a group of people, regardless of one's citizenship status....
.
Catalan
- Cançoner de l'Ateneu
- Cançoner Carreras
- Cançoner dels Comtes d'Urgell
- Cançoner d'Estanislau Aguiló
- Cançoner del Marquès de Barberà
- Cançoner d'obres enamorades
- Cançoner de Paris-Charpentras
- Cançoner de la Universitat de Saragossa
- Cançoner de vides de sants
- Cançoneret d'amor
- Cançoneret de Ripoll
- Jardinet d'Orats
- Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
French
- Cangé Chansonnier
- Cappella Giulia Chansonnier
- Chansonnier CordiformeChansonnier CordiformeThe Chansonnier Cordiforme or Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu is a cordiform music manuscript, Collection Henri de Rothschild MS 2973, in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris....
- Chansonnier de Arras
- Chansonnier du Roi (also Occitan)
- Chansonnier Nivelle de la Chaussée
- Copenhagen Chansonnier
- Dijon Chansonnier
- Florentine Chansonnier
- Laborde Chansonnier
- Mellon Chansonnier
- Noailles Chansonnier
- Seville Chansonnier
- Wolfenbüttel Chansonnier
Occitan
- Cançoner GilCançoner GilThe Cançoner Gil is an Occitan chansonnier produced in Catalonia in the middle of the 14th century. In the systematic nomenclature of Occitanists, it is typically named MS Sg, but as Z in the reassignment of letter names by François Zufferey. It is numbered MS 146 in the Biblioteca de Catalunya in...
- Cançoner Vega-AguilóCançoner Vega-AguilóThe Cançoner Vega-Aguiló is a chansonnier predominantly carrying Catalan and Occitan pieces, but also some Castilian and Middle French verse.-Bibliography:*Anna Alberni Jordà , PhD thesis, University of Barcelona....
- Chansonnier de Saint-Germain-des-Prés
- Philipps Manuscript
- Poetarum Provinciali
Galician-Portuguese
- Cancioneiro da Biblioteca NacionalCancioneiro da Biblioteca NacionalThe Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional , commonly called Colocci-Brancuti, is a compilation of Galician-Portuguese lyrics by both troubadours and jograes...
- Cancioneiro da Ajuda
- Cancioneiro da VaticanaCancioneiro da VaticanaThe Cancioneiro da Vaticana is a compilation of troubadour lyrics in Galician-Portuguese. It was discovered c. 1840 in the holdings of the Vatican Library and was first transcribed by Ernesto Monaci in 1875....
- Pergaminho SharrerPergaminho SharrerThe Pergaminho Sharrer is the name given to a mediaeval parchment fragment containing seven songs by King Dinis I of Portugal, with lyrics in the Galician-Portuguese language and musical notation....
(fragment) - Pergaminho Vindel see Martin CodaxMartín CodaxMartín Codax or Martim Codax was a Galician medieval jogral , possibly from Vigo, Galicia in present day Spain. He may have been active during the middle of the thirteenth century, judging from scriptological analysis...
Portuguese
- Cancioneiro de BelémCancioneiro de BelémThe Cancioneiro Musical de Belém or simply Cancioneiro de Belém is a Renaissance Portuguese manuscript from the beginning of the 17th century....
- Cancioneiro de ElvasCancioneiro de ElvasThe Cancioneiro de Elvas is one of the four Renaissance songbooks of Portuguese music from the 16th century - along with the Lisbon Songbook, the Belém Songbook, and the Paris songbook...
- Cancioneiro de Lisboa
- Cancioneiro de ParisCancioneiro de ParisThe Cancioneiro de Paris is one of the four Renaissance songbooks of Portuguese music from the 16th century. It is one important source of secular music of the Iberian Renaissance and the largest one of Portuguese secular Renaissance music.It contains 130 profane villancicos and cantigas...
French-Canadian (Quebec's) Chansonniers
- La BolducLa BolducMary Rose-Anna Travers, was a French Canadian singer and musician. She was known as Madame Bolduc or La Bolduc. During the peak of her popularity in the 1930s, she was known as the Queen of Canadian Folksingers. Bolduc is often considered to be Quebec's first singer/songwriter...
- Félix LeclercFélix LeclercFélix Leclerc, was a French-Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and Québécois political activist. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 20, 1968...
- Raymond Levesque
- Claude Gauthier
- Claude Léveillé
- Christine CharbonneauChristine CharbonneauChristine Charbonneau is a singer andsongwriter born in Montréal, Canada, in 1943. She began her career in 1959, singing and writing songs in the genre that was popular at the time in Quebec music clubs, known as "boîtes à chansons"...
- Gilles VigneaultGilles VigneaultGilles Vigneault, is a Canadian poet, publisher and singer-songwriter, and well-known Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist.A poet deeply rooted in his native Quebec, Vigneault has become an icon at home and Quebec ambassador abroad...
- Pierre Calvé
- Monique Miville-Deschênes
- Jean-Pierre FerlandJean-Pierre FerlandJean-Pierre Ferland, OC, CQ is a Canadian singer and songwriter.-Life and career:Ferland began work with Radio-Canada in 1956 as an accountant, but his career there was short lived. Shortly after, he began taking guitar lessons with Stephen Fentock and began to fall in love with music, writing his...
- Tex Lecor
- Clémence Desrochers
- Pauline Julien
- Jacques Blanchet
- Hervé Brousseau
- Georges Dor
- Jean-Paul Fillion
- Louise Forestier
- Marc Gélinas
- Serge Deyglun
- Sylvain Lelièvre
- Pierre Létourneau
- Tex Lecor
- Marie-Savard
- Jacques Blanchet
- Hervé Brousseau
- Georges Dor
- Jean-Paul Fillion
- Marc Gélinas
- Suzanne Jacob
- Serge Deyglun
- Jacques Labrecque
- Jacqueline Lemay
- Monique Brunet
- Georges Langford
- Priscilla
- Christian Larsen
- Mado de L'Isle
- Geneviève Aubin-Bertrand
- Lorainne Diot
- Marie Lavigueur
- Gervaises Desbiens-Roy