Sentence examples for old chansons from inspiring English sources

In the place of Charlemagne, a favourite hero of the old chansons de geste, the legendary cycles of the 12th century spawned a new generation of romantic heroes King Arthur and the knights of his Round Table.

"For the first time," he wrote, "all the realistic sensory experiences of infantrymen have been woven into a pattern which, while retaining all the authentic realism of the event, has the heroic ring which we associate with the old chansons de geste … a book which we can accept as a true record of our suffering and as a work of art in the romantic tradition of Malory and the Mabinogion".

In the course of the set, the music also touched on tarantella, old R&B, chanson, lullaby, honky-tonk, madrigal and movie themes, just for starters.

It begins with a simple acoustic strum, takes in horns, a compound duple time signature that gives it a walzy feel and a whiff of the old French chanson thrown in along the way, and a mesmeric finale of orchestration and Bowie screaming "You're not alone!" at the top of his voice.

His most popular film, "On Connaît la Chanson" ("Same Old Song"), from 1997, is a sort of excavational musical.

I'd also argue that Mr. Resnais's recent satire of middle-class pretense and romantic folly, the 1997 French box-office hit "On Connait la Chanson" ("Same Old Song"), is implicitly stagy.

But their image changed when they wrote for veteran auteur Alain Resnais, on his musical On Connait la Chanson ("Same Old Song", 1997), and adapted his improbable 1993 Alan Ayckbourn double-bill Smoking/No Smoking – although parts of the original didn't make the Channel crossing.

By 1998, she was appearing with Evelyn Künnecke and Helen Vita at the Bar jeder Vernunft, in Berlin, in Drei Alte Schachteln (Three Old Bags), a programme of chansons that the veteran trio toured all over Germany.

The Old French poets who composed the chansons de geste (as the Old French epics are called) had been content to tell a story; they were concerned with statement, not with motivation, and their characters could act without explicitly justifying their actions.

"SAME OLD SONG (ON CONNAIT LA CHANSON)" March 4 and 5 at Scott 123.

The reaction was mixed when Pop held a press conference at a luxury Paris hotel to unveil Après, a collection which includes the 65 year-old's take on Chanson classics including Edith Piaf's La vie en Rose and Les Passantes by Georges Brassens.