Look up: virelai

1. virelai
   one of the French formes fixe, cultivated in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. A strophic piece with an internal structure of A b b a A, where a capital letter designates a repetition of both text and music and lower case designates new text. The virelai typically had three stanzas...
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2. Virelai
   Complex 14th Century French form composed of long and short lines. The long lines of the second stanza take their rhyme from the short lines of the first stanza. This pattern continues  through out the poem until the final stanza - where the short lines take their rhyme from the long lines of the first stanza.
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3. virelai
   one of several formes fixes (`fixed forms`) in French lyric poetry and song of the 14th and 15th centuries (compare ballade; rondeau). It probably ... [4 related articles]
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4. Virelai
   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 rondeau), and was one of the most common verse forms set to music in Europe from the late thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. A virelai is...
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