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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. In 2012, "Je m'appelle Funny Bear" by German virtual singer Gummibär became the first French-language music video to reach 100 million views. In 2023, Indila's song "Dernière Danse" became the first music video in French to reach 1 billion views.
French music history dates back to organum in the 10th century, followed by the Notre Dame School, an organum composition style. Troubadour songs of chivalry and courtly love were composed in the Occitan language between the 10th and 13th centuries, and the Trouvère poet-composers flourished in Northern France during this period.
"À la claire fontaine" (French: [a la klɛʁ(ə) fɔ̃tɛn]; lit. ' By the clear fountain ') is a traditional French song, which has also become very popular in Belgium and in Canada, particularly in Quebec and the Maritime provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb.
Chansons d'Ennui Tip-Top features twelve cover versions of French pop songs by artists including Françoise Hardy, Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot and Jacques Dutronc.It is a companion release to the soundtrack for Wes Anderson's 2021 film The French Dispatch. [5]
MCM (originally an acronym for Monte-Carlo Musique, later Ma Chaîne Musicale [1]) is a French music video and entertainment TV channel owned by Groupe M6.It was started in 1989 by Europe 1 Communication following the MTV model, as a programming block of the Monegasque TV station TMC.
The song is one of several contemporary tunes that are played by the musical box of the Negress head clock, made in Paris in 1784. Rita Dove references the song and the clock in her 2009 poem "Ode on a Negress Head Clock, with Eight Tunes". [11] Ludwig van Beethoven used the tune to represent the French in his musical work Wellington's Victory.
The song shows some influence from broadside ballads, a traditional Irish song type. It has a very regular pattern that both the music and the lyrics follow. It also opens with the phrase Je vais vous dire quelques mots which is very similar to the traditional opening of broadside ballads, O come ye listen to my story. [4]