A chansonnier (cançoner, cançonièr, Galician and cancioneiro, canzoniere or canzoniéro, cancionero) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, 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.....
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(from the article `chanson`) (French: `song`), French art song of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The chanson before 1500 is preserved mostly in large manuscript ...
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Collection of troubadour poems.
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a singer or writer of chansons, esp. a cabaret performer who specializes in songs that are a combination of melody and rapid spoken patter.
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