Sentence examples for chansons about from inspiring English sources

His chansons (about 60 have survived) were admired particularly for their melodic beauty, rhythmic complexity, harmonic colour, and clarity of structure.

This 1930s classic, now recorded in 37 languages, is one of those inimitable chansons about love and kissing that made French singers – from Charles Trenet to Georges Brassens to Serge Gainsbourg – famous the world over.

She sets a distinctive Gallic tone with her Piaf-echoing "Chanson" about a village on the brink of change.

The music slaloms between genres – hard rock, big ballads with a hint of the declamatory vocals of chanson about them, unreconstructed 50s rock'n'roll, 70s stuff decorated with proggy keyboard arpeggios – which tells you something about the sheer length of his career.

Thomas Pigor, a cabaret performer who does a popular chanson about the Führer's aftershave, maintains that the only way to still get any comic mileage out of the Hitler impressions these days is to explore the gap between cardboard cut-out madman and the private human being.

He read Chanson d'Aventure, about his journey in an ambulance after his stroke.

His works include about 160 motets, about 60 chansons, 10 masses, and 8 Magnificats.

More than half the pieces published in Pierre Attaingnant's famous collection of chansons (1529) are by Sermisy, and about 200 of Sermisy's chansons more than 20 of which were settings of poems by his contemporary Clément Marot were published during his life.

The core of Charlemagne legends is contained in the chansons de geste, a name given to about 80 medieval epic poems in Old French.

Piaf began formulating a repertory of chansons réalistes, a popular tradition of story-songs about the downtrodden and desperate.

The songs are about desire and estrangement, and in another incarnation they could almost be cabaret chansons.