Chansonnier

A chansonnier (Catalan: cançoner, Occitan: cançonièr, Galician and Portuguese: cancioneiro, Italian: canzoniere or canzoniéro, Spanish: cancionero) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings of songs, hence literally "song-books," although some manuscripts are so called even though they preserve the text but not the music (for example, the Cancioneiro da Vaticana and Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, which contain the bulk of Galician-Portuguese lyric). The most important chansonniers contain lyrics, poems and songs of the troubadours and trouvères of the Middle Ages. Prior to 1420, many song-books contained both sacred and secular music, one exception being those containing the work of Guillaume de Machaut. Around 1420, sacred and secular music was segregated into separate sources, with large choirbooks containing sacred music, and smaller chansonniers for more private use by the privileged. Chansonniers were compiled primarily in France, but also in Italy, Germany and in the Iberian peninsula.

A singer of chansons could also be called a chansonnier.

In Quebec, Canada: "Is called 'Chansonnier' [1] a poet songwriter, solitary singer, who sings his own songs (chansons) with a guitar, during the 1960's and 1970's. Compared to the popular singer, the chansonnier needs no artifice to sing his soul poetry. He performs in «Les Boites à Chansons».[2][3][4] which are flourishing in those years. His themes songs vary but include nature, love, simplcity, and a social interest to improve his world. The chansonnier is making way for social and political awareness during the Quiet Revolution,[5] (La Révolution Tranquille) that leads to the affirmation of Quebecers National identity.[6]

Contents

List of important chansonniers

Catalan

French

Occitan

Galician-Portuguese

Portuguese

Spanish

French-Canadian (Quebec) Chansonniers

References

Notes

  1. ^ "Chansonnier definition as intended in Quebec",http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000664
  2. ^ "Paragraph 6, "After 1960 the boites à chansons increased in number concurrently with Quebec's Quiet Revolution, a powerful movement of economic and cultural emancipation (...)",http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000663
  3. ^ "Thanks to Félix Leclerc', the new Québec song (chanson) would become the natural path for the collective identity of all Quebeckers and the first Ambassador of this Society in complete mutation...",http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=Q1ARTQ0000663
  4. ^ "Boites à chansons",http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000352
  5. ^ "Paragraph 8, "http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000663
  6. ^ "The chansonniers were making way for social and polical awareness, the affirmation of Québec's growing national identity",http://books.google.ca/books?id=pJvzEzjahkQC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=Chansonnier+and+Quebec%27s+national+identity&source=bl&ots=e866eUSUN8&sig=3r33Hnj4hcQ2FMtQrfYnaqT-LxU&hl=en&ei=Y5vPTuPYGoH40gHWroTzDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Chansonnier%20and%20Quebec%27s%20national%20identity&f=false