Ravel's "Trois Chansons," for a cappella chorus; New York Virtuoso Singers.
In addition to the chansons for three or four voices, Busnois wrote two masses, eight motets, two hymns, a Magnificat, and a Credo.
In the domain of secular music, Josquin left numerous French chansons, for from three to six voices, as well as a handful of Italian secular songs known as frottole, as well as some pieces which were probably intended for instrumental performance.
The chanson for vocal ensemble had several antecedents.
Accordion and saxophone make this one sound like an English chanson for a struggling saloon-bar philosopher.
For Deezer it meant adding local artists, negotiating licenses with the labels for each individual country, and segmenting music into relevant genres (adding French Chanson for the Russian audience and Schlager for the German).
Music and Dance BELLPORT -- Ravel's "Chansons Madécasses" for baritone, flute, cello and piano, "Jet Whistle" for flute and cello by Villa-Lobos, Weber's Trio in G minor for flute, cello and piano and Baroque songs for countertenor.
Instrumental music was for the most part in the service of the voice, though instrumental church compositions, dances, and chansons arranged for organ were not uncommon.
The influence of Berlioz is there in Britten's teenage assurance of the Quatre Chansons Françaises for Orchestra and Soprano, and later, too.
C. 1485 Châtellerault, France 1558 Paris, France Clément Janequin, also spelled Jannequin (born c. 1485, Châtellerault, Fr. died 1558, Paris), a leading 16th-century French composer of chansons, famous for his program chansons, part-songs in which sounds of nature, of battles, and of the streets are imitated.
Most notably, Rinat Shaham put her supple mezzo-soprano to fine use as an engine of both drama and sensuality, in Ravel's "Chansons Madécasses," for which she was joined by Marco Granados, the flutist; Edward Arron, the cellist; and Mr. Barrett.
