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	Comparative Arts: A CyberEd Course: Part 4: Medieval Music: P.3
		The simple repetitive melodies of the chansons de geste, together with the assonated verses and insistent rhythms of the poetry, had much in common With the litany -though, of course, the subject matter differed radically.
		In the manuscript of the Chanson de Roland the enigmatic letters AOI appear after each of the 321 strophes, while in the songs of troubadours and minnesingers the letters are EUOUAE or some variant.
		The single authentic example of a chanson de geste melody that survives is found in a little pastoral play from the 13th century by Adam de la Halle, where it is quoted humorously by one of the characters.
	www.uml.edu /Dept/History/ArtHistory/compart/4med3.html (834 words)

	Chanson de geste
		The poems (of which about 100 survive) date from the 11th to the 14th centuries, and were sung to short musical phrases, probably involving repetition, by trouvères (see minstrel).
		The most famous, La Chanson de Roland (early 12th century), recounts the death of Roland, one of Charlemagne's knights, with remarkable grandeur and pathos.
		The chansons de geste were predecessors of the verse romances written by Chrétien de Troyes.
	www.orbilat.com /Encyclopaedia/C/Chanson_de_geste.html (94 words)

	4ch8
		Hervis de Mes was composed in the mid-thirteenth century, after most of the other works in the geste; fictionally, however, it extends the cycle by reverse chronology, recounting the adventures and exploits of Garin's father before the great feud.
		These examples demonstrate that changes of identity in the chanson de geste serve to facilitate victory over the heathen adversary; they highlight the unworthiness of those groups excluded from the closed circle of Christian knighthood; and they permit the protagonist to realize his full potential as an epic hero.
		The first half of the story relates the early adventures of Hervis, who is the son of the bourgeois Thieri and the noble Aelis (daughter of the duke of Metz).
	www.luc.edu /publications/medieval/vol4/4ch8.html (2790 words)

	chanson de geste
		The chansons de geste, of which some 80 are extant, were for the most part composed in the 12th century.
		One hundred and fifteen chansons de geste are now extant in manuscripts written in either old French or Old Provencal, the Romance language spoken in southern France during the Middle Ages.
		The historical events which the chansons purport to immortalize are treated with little regard for the facts; but the poems are unintentionally revelatory of the customs, manners, and attitudes of their day--the crusades and the infidel, feudal relationships and feudal loyalties.
	www.octc.kctcs.edu /crunyon/e261c/12-Roland/chanson_de_geste.htm (482 words)

	chansons de geste - Encyclopedia.com
		chansons de geste [Fr.,=songs of deeds], a group of epic poems of medieval France written from the 11th through the 13th cent.
		The origin of the form is disputed, but probably the first chansons were composed after the year 1000 by the joint efforts of wandering clerks and jongleurs (itinerant minstrels) to attract pilgrims to shrines where heroes of the chansons were supposedly buried.
		Moses and the princess: Josephus' 'Antiquitates Judaicae' and the chansons de geste.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-chansons.html (610 words)

	TEMPORAL PATTERNS IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY CHANSON DE GESTE
		chanson de geste and the fifteenth-century prose epic, I will attempt to demonstrate that the later prose epic is characterized by a “prise de conscience du temps” which transforms the literary heritage of the preceding centuries.
		La chanson de Roland where Ganelon is labelled as “li traitres” from the outset, well in advance of his plotting any betrayal of Roland and the rear guard.
		Chanson de Roland, events are preordained and even though Charlemagne has privileged foreknowledge of the impending disaster, he is powerless to prevent it.
	tell.fll.purdue.edu /RLA-Archive/1991/French-html/Gaudet,Minnette.htm (4624 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Chanson
		The unaccompanied chanson for a single voice part, composed by the troubadour s and later the trouvere s, first appeared in the 12th century.
		, the great French hero of the medieval Charlemagne cycle of chansons de geste, immortalized in the Chanson de Roland (11th or 12th cent Existence of an early Roland poem is indicated by the historian Wace's statement that Taillefer sang of Roland's deeds to inflame the men before the Battle of...
		They are best known for their three-part chanson s in rondeau form (formes fixes), usually with text only in the highest part—perhaps implying a solo voice accompanied by...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Chanson (750 words)

	Chanson de geste - Definition, explanation
		The chansons de geste, Old French for "songs of heroic deeds", are the epic poetry that appears at the dawn of French literature.
		The Geste de Doon de Mayence; this cycle concerned traitors and rebels against royal authority, and in each case the revolt ends with the defeat of the rebels and their eventual repentance.
		The chansons de geste created a body of mythology that lived on well after the creative force of the genre itself was spent.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/c/ch/chanson_de_geste.php (934 words)

	CHANSONS DE GESTE - Online Information article about CHANSONS DE GESTE
		Charlemagne, and was known as the Geste du roi.
		To this group belong Bertha Greatfoot and Aspremont, both of the 12th century, and a variety of chansons dealing with the childhood of Charlemagne and of Ogier the Dane.
		This is what has been defined as the Feudal Epic; it includes Girars de Viane and Ogier the Dane, both of the 13th century, or the end of the 12th.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /CAU_CHA/CHANSONS_DE_GESTE.html (1867 words)

	Knighthood, Chivalry & Tournament Glossary of Terms
		Geoffrey de Charnay, a highly regarded French knight, attempted to release the town through bribery in 13__, but was met in person by Edward and the Black Prince.
		Chanson d'Antioche: The work is a 'history' of the first crusade surrounding the career of Godfrey de Bouillon, begun c.
		Chanson d'Aspremont: Epic from the last decade of the 12th century, the poem details an incident at Charlemagne's court where a messenger from king Agolant so infuriates Charlemagne that he sets out with his army and a young, untried knight named Roland.
	www.chronique.com /Library/Glossaries/glossary-KCT/gloss_c.htm (6657 words)

	CROrality
		In either case, the extant Chanson de Roland was seen as an edited compilation of independent poems.
		The chansons de geste could have been recreated orally until being written down by literate monks, either acting as scribes, or being themselves both literate and trained in oral-formulaic composition.
		The chansons de geste are constructed on the basis of scenes, a characteristic of oral-formulaic composition, but the nature and existence of assonantal formulae is a difficult problem.
	www.unlv.edu /Faculty/jmstitt/Eng446/crorality.html (426 words)

	Chanson de geste & Opinions - Publications - [ chloedelaume.net ]
		Chanson de geste and Opinions est le quatrième opus de cette expérience éditoriale.
		Les trois héros de ce conte sont le duc d'Auge, la jeune Zazie et le perroquet Laverdure.
		Chanson de geste and Opinions = [Chanson de geste + Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien ] ²
	www.chloedelaume.net /publications/chanson-de-geste-opinions.php (232 words)

	Imago Mundi - Les Chansons de Geste.
		Quand la conquête franque eut introduit l'usage germanique de chanter les événements et les héros contemporains ou traditionnels, d'abord dans la langue des envahisseurs, puis dans celle des vaincus, la récitation musicale de l'épopée fut désignée par l'expression chanter de geste.
		On a dit quelquefois en France une geste pour une chanson de geste; et ce mot, transporté de l'autre côté de la Manche, y a pris, à l'époque de la décadence de l'épopée et de la classe qui la chantait, le sens actuel de l'anglais jest (plaisanterie, farce).
		siècle dans les écrits de Roquefort et de l'abbé de la Rue, et c'est Paulin Pâris qui en a le premier saisi la véritable signification et les a remis en honneur, sinon auprès du grand public, au moins dans le langage des savants et des lettrés.
	www.cosmovisions.com /textGeste.htm (1010 words)

	Qu'est-ce qu'une chanson de geste ?
		Les chansons de geste sont des poèmes narratifs chantés - comme leur nom l'indique - qui traitent de hauts faits du passé - comme leur nom l'indique également.
		L'autre trait caractéristique des chansons de geste est leur contenu.
		De surcroît; chaque jongleur souhaitait pouvoir annoncer une oeuvre sinon originale, du moins peu connue, ou une version nouvelle, meilleure que toutes les autres, d'un texte déjà répandu.
	www.chanson-de-geste.com /Composition.htm (1437 words)

	ORB -- Geste Francor: Italian Literature
		The so-called Geste Francor is a fourteenth-century untitled manuscript, damaged at the beginning, containing nine parts: these are chansons de geste, but in a language and style unlike those of Northern France where the literary genre of chanson de geste originated.
		The so-called Geste Francor is a ninety-five folio manuscript on vellum.
		The form of these stories, as the others in the manuscript, is the chanson de geste, an Old French form consisting of varying length laisses (strophes), each line of which is the same length (decasyllable, or later, dodecasyllable or alexandrine).
	www.the-orb.net /encyclop/culture/lit/italian/morganintro.html (5729 words)

	La chanson de geste
		Le terme de chanson et le syntagme "chanter de geste" mettent en évidence le caractère oral de textes qui étaient en général chantés ou psalmodiés par des jongleurs (il fallait plusieurs journées pour la récitation publique des 4000 vers de la Chanson de Roland), et leur caractère musical (chaque chanson avait sa mélodie).
		En raison de ce caractère oral, les manuscrits de chansons de geste présentent des variantes particulièrement fréquentes.
		Le thème récurrent de la croisade, de la lutte des chrétiens contre les sarrasins (ou musulmans) est prétexte à l'exaltation de la vaillance guerrière, de la prouesse, sur un arrière-plan mythique de combats surhumains et de descriptions fabuleuses.
	gallica.bnf.fr /themes/LitMA6.htm (255 words)

	English 205 English Literature I On-line Class; Discussion Questions Week 5 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the chanson de geste the group is dominant; a knight may have individual exploits, but he considers himself first to be fighting for the glory of his group.
		Both heroes are known for their prowess, but the hero of the chanson de geste displays his prowess in a public context, while the romance hero does so solely in pursuit of a private ideal.
		In the chanson de geste, there is an attempt to adhere to actual political, social, and geographic conditions.
	www.lahc.edu /english/eng205/Dq5.htm (544 words)

	Chanson - AOL Music
		The traditional subject matter of the chansons de geste became known as the Matter of...
		The origin of the chanson de geste as a form is much debated.
		Machaut's chansons were succeeded by those of two overlapping generations: a...
	music.aol.com /artist/chanson/25174/main (160 words)

	The Saracens
		According to Chanson de Roland, Baligant was a very old man, "...outliving Virgil and Homer".
		In the Chanson de Roland, she praised Ganelon when he agreed to betray his own king, and setting an ambush to have Roland killed along with the other Twelve Peers.
		In the Chanson de Roland, Aelroth asked his uncle to let him be the one to strike down Roland, the leader of the Twelve Peers.
	www.timelessmyths.com /arthurian/saracens.html (1045 words)

	La Chanson de Gefrei
		He had medals, too, citations for bravery and a croix de guerre in a box, and beneath those ornaments was the faded picture of an attractive woman who could hardly have been much more than eighteen.
		Still, it was odd to believe that I had opened Uncle Otto's trunk to discover a lost Chanson de Geste beside my Chevrolet.
		It was a Chanson de Geste, undoubtedly, but cut short, only a page of it, and that page incomplete.
	www.indiana.edu /~librcsd/resource/france/annexe/chanson.html (1160 words)

	OUP: UK General Catalogue
		This is a major reassessment of the relation between the medieval French chansons de geste and the romance genre.
		The chanson de geste are seen as 'formulaic', composed from a public fund of pre-existant and primarily oral narratives and motifs; romance on the other hand, is seen as a more sophisticated product of a newly 'literary' story-telling, line with the more complex social and political conditions of the time.
		Drawing tellingly on recent literary and feminist theory, Kay argues that the chanson de geste and romance are engaged in a productive and telling dialogue; moreover, each genre illuminates the 'political unconscious' of the other: those political conflicts and contradictions that the text attempts to evade and disguise.
	www.oup.com /uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198151920 (448 words)

	Le Figaro — Actualité en direct et informations en continu
		Le deuxième jumeau de la pieuse Gladys (son aîné, Jessie Garon, est mort quelques minutes avant sa naissance) est devenu une star, une icône immortelle, un mythe, écouté, chanté, révéré comme jamais, près de trente ans après sa mort.
		Composé comme une chanson de geste, ou une chanson tout court, mêlant incantations, chapitres plus descriptifs, brefs instantanés ou récits à plusieurs voix, comme si tout se bousculait dans la pauvre tête du héros déchu shooté aux médicaments, Fonction Elvis est un objet littéraire non identifié.
		Les avocats de la famille de ce franco-israélien retenu en otage par le Hamas veulent mobiliser l’opinion.
	www.lefigaro.fr /litteraire/20060601.LIT000000277_la_chanson_de_geste_du_king.html (756 words)

	chanson de geste definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		chanson de geste definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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		French epic poem: a French epic poem written between the 11th and 14th centuries, usually celebrating legendary events and figures
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861687402/chanson_de_geste.html (86 words)

	King Arthur Primer: Lancelot
		Before Lancelot, most of the stories of Arthur take the form of the chanson de geste: songs of war.
		In Geoffrey of Monmouths The History of the Kings of Britain, which is the chief source of the pre-romantic period, the story is mostly about Arthur, his rise to power, defeat of the Saxons, and his final conquest of Rome.
		By the twelfth century, a kinder, gentler Europe, at least they thought, had been erected and virtues of the chanson de geste, were no longer pertinent.
	www.moviecitynews.com /arrays/2004/ka_primer_lancelot.html (412 words)

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