Sentence examples for chansons to from inspiring English sources

Luranah gave recitals in London until the First World War, her repertory ranging from lieder to chansons to parlor songs.

He was one of the first composers of chansons to make all voices equal parts of the texture; and many of his chansons contain points of imitation, in the manner of motets.

And Serge's versatility – from hard bebop to sentimental chanson to light reggae – is a challenge from which they do not shrink.

Their half-hour program juxtaposes Faure's "La Bonne Chanson" (to poems by Paul Verlaine) with Bernstein's song cycle "La Bonne Cuisine". The information number is 949-0384.

It's as if all music is buoyantly alive and coexisting in its two-hour span: from Wagner to Mussorgsky, Bartók, Nielsen, Ravel, Shostakovich and Nancarrow; from 12th-century chanson to chaconne and choral polyphony, via flamenco and Stravinsky, forward into melody and backwards into dissonance.

The sound of ska could be heard throughout in the band's frantic off-beat guitar scratches and strident brass, while there were shades of everything from chanson to salsa to Catalan rumba in the mix, the latter notable on a scorching Rumba de Barcelona, one of several nods to Chao's hometown.

The chief forms of vocal music continued to be the mass, the motet, and the chanson, to which must be added other national types that developed during the 15th century the villancico (secular poetry set for voice and lute or for three or four voices) in Spain and the frottola (a simple, chordal setting in three or four parts of an Italian text) in Italy.

Beirut are the encapsulation of a musical wanderlust that has taken Condon from Balkan folk to French chansons through to Mexican and Hispanic sounds.