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Salut is a song performed by Joe Dassin from his 1975 album Joe Dassin (Le Costume blanc) (CBS 81147). [2] It was also released as a single, in 1976 with "Et si tu n'existais pas" on the other side. It is a French adaptation, by Pierre Delanoë and Claude Lemesle, of an Italian song, "Uomo dove vai" (by Toto Cutugno).
Bonjour Biqui, Bonjour! is an 1893 song for voice and piano with words and music by Erik Satie.At a mere four bars - less than half a minute in performance, and that due to its slow tempo - it is the shortest of his complete compositions.
In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline ...
In its typical specialized usage, the word chanson refers to a polyphonic French song of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. [4] Early chansons tended to be in one of the formes fixes—ballade, rondeau or virelai (formerly the chanson baladée)—though some composers later set popular poetry in a variety of forms. The earliest chansons were ...
Picard gambe ~ Old French jambe (leg; pronounced in Old French [ˈdʒãmbə] rather than the modern [ʒɑ̃b] – [ʒ] is the ge sound in beige), from *gambe (vulgar Latin gamba): absence of palatalization of /ɡ/ in Picard before tonic /a/ and /ɔ/. Picard kief ~ Old French chef (leader), from *kaf (Latin caput): less palatalization of /k/ in ...
Even English-language dialogue containing these words can appear on Quebec French-language television without bleeping. For example, in 2003, when punks rioted in Montreal because a concert by the band The Exploited had been cancelled, TV news reporters solemnly read out a few lyrics and song titles from their album Fuck the System .
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The formes fixes were standard forms in French-texted song of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The ballade is usually in three stanzas, each ending with a refrain (a repeated segment of text and music). [1] The ballade as a verse form typically consists of three eight-line stanzas, each with a consistent metre and a particular rhyme ...