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Charles Delange
Charles Delange ( –1871) was a 19th-century French chansonnier. He has written many songs of the nineteenth century repertoire as well as an operetta in 1856, ''Un monsieur bien servi!'' presented at Théâtre Déjazet. Works * ''Les Aventures d'une cane'', ditty curiosité musicale, music by Louis Clapisson, 1834 * ''Le Bureau de placement !'', humorous scene, music by Charles-François Plantade, 1843 * ''Le Tombeau des secrets !'', ditty, music by Plantade, 1843 * ''Beloiseau le modèle !'', humorous scene, music by Pierre-Julien Nargeot, 1844 * ''Ce que disent les Cloches !'', romance, music by Plantade, 1844 * ''Gennaro ou l'Enfant du môle'', mélodie, music by , 1844 * ''Monsieur mon-filleul !'', ditty, music by Nargeot, 1844 * ''Le Capitaine Craquefort !'', voyage de circumdivagation, music by Plantade, 1846 * ''Le Galop de la vie !'', music by Plantade, 1846 * ''Histoire de Cendrillon racontée par le caporal Gobin à son retour d' Afrique'', sur l'air de ''Ramonez-ci, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chansonnier (singer)
A ''chansonnier'' (female: ''chansonnière'') was a poet songwriter, a solitary singer, who sang his or her own songs (''chansons'') with a guitar, prominent in francophone countries during the 1960s and 1970s. Unlike popular singers, ''chansonniers'' need no artifice to sing their soul poetry. They performed in "''Les Boites à Chansons''" which flourished during those years. The themes of their songs varied but included nature, love, simplicity and a social interest to improve their world. Canada In Canada, the ''chansonnier'' tradition played a prominent role in the development of Quebec's social and political awareness during the Quiet Revolution, (''la Révolution tranquille'') that led to the affirmation of Quebecers' national identity. One prominent ''chansonnier'', Robert Charlebois, transformed the province's musical culture when he moved from traditional ''chansonnier'' pop to a more rock-oriented sound with his fourth album, ''Lindberg'', in 1968.Bob Mersereau, ''The His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Couplet
A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (or closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the end of a line of verse. In a run-on (or open) couplet, the meaning of the first line continues to the second. Background The word "couplet" comes from the French word meaning "two pieces of iron riveted or hinged together". The term "couplet" was first used to describe successive lines of verse in Sir P. Sidney's '' Arcadia '' in 1590: "In singing some short coplets, whereto the one halfe beginning, the other halfe should answere." While couplets traditionally rhyme, not all do. Poems may use white space to mark out couplets if they do not rhyme. Couplets in iambic pentameter are called ''heroic couplets''. John Dryden in the 17th century and Alexander Pope in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Data
In the pursuit of knowledge, data (; ) is a collection of discrete values that convey information, describing quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted. A datum is an individual value in a collection of data. Data is usually organized into structures such as tables that provide additional context and meaning, and which may themselves be used as data in larger structures. Data may be used as variables in a computational process. Data may represent abstract ideas or concrete measurements. Data is commonly used in scientific research, economics, and in virtually every other form of human organizational activity. Examples of data sets include price indices (such as consumer price index), unemployment rates, literacy rates, and census data. In this context, data represents the raw facts and figures which can be used in such a manner in order to capture the useful information out of it. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Diémer
Louis Joseph Diémer (14 February 1843 – 21 December 1919) was a French pianist and composer. He was the founder of the Société des Instruments Anciens in the 1890s, and also gave recitals on the harpsichord. His output as a composer was extensive, including a piano concerto and a quantity of salon music, salon pieces. Life Diémer was born and died in Paris. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, Paris Conservatoire, where his teachers included Ambroise Thomas for composition, Antoine François Marmontel, Antoine Marmontel for piano, and François Benoist for organ. From the age of twelve, he won several first prizes (''Premiers Prix'') at the Conservatoire, in piano, harmony and accompaniment, counterpoint and fugue, and solfège, and a ''second prix'' in organ. He quickly built a reputation as a virtuoso and toured with, among others, the violinists Delphin Alard and Pablo de Sarasate. In 1888, Diémer succeeded Marmontel as professor of piano at the Paris Conservatory. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Parizot
Victor Parizot (18?? – 26 March 1860) was a 19th-century French composer. With Ernest Bourget Ernest Alexandre Joseph Bourget (10 March 1814 – 2 October 1864 in Thomery (Seine-et-Oise aged 50 ) was a 19th-century French playwright, lyricist and librettist. In 1847 at the Café des Ambassadeurs, Paul Henrion, Victor Parizot and Ernest B ... and Paul Henrion, he was one of the founders of the SACEM (Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique). French composers Year of birth missing 1860 deaths {{France-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Vialon
Antoine Vialon (17 December 1814 – 4 March 1866) was a French draftsman and engraver who became music publisher and composer of vocal music later in his life. Biographical sketch After playing music of other composers for a while, he began writing and playing his own music. A meticulous artist with a large number of vocal works for one, two, three or four voices with or without accompaniment, he left behind him a collection of musical pieces in numbered and standard notation, some of which won awards in regional choral competitions. He was one of the first propagators of the Galin-Paris-Chevé system, that he later abandoned in favour of a more practical point of view. He was a steadfast and tireless artist who devoted his whole life to his art. Works * ''Fanfare du charlatan'' * ''3 duos concertants'' for two violins * ''Chœur bouffe,'' for 3- or 4-part male voice choir à capella * ''Danse pour tous'', choral quadrille for 3- or 4-part male voice choir * ''Souvenirs de l'Or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Henrion
Paul Henrion, (20 July 1819 – 24 October 1901 ) was a 19th-century French composer. President of the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique of which he was a co-founder with Victor Parizot and Ernest Bourget, he was also a goguettier, member of the . In a panorama of the world of songs published in 1882 in ''Le Figaro'', the journalist considered him "a first-rate artist whose romances for salons were famous". Henrion sometimes signed his compositions under the pseudonym A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individua ... Henri Charlemagne. References French composers Musicians from Paris 1819 births 1901 deaths {{France-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Durand
Émile Durand (; 16 February 18307 May 1903) was a French musical theorist, teacher and composer. He was better known for his theoretical writings than for his compositions. Biography Émile Durand was born in 1830, at Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, in the Brittany region of France, and moved south with his family to Montpellier when he was 12 years old. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1845 at age 15, in the class of Napoléon Alkan (brother of Charles-Valentin Alkan). François Bazin and Fromental Halévy were among his other noteworthy teachers. In 1853, he won the second Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata ''Le Rocher d'Appenzell''. He joined the conservatoire as a teacher of music theory and harmony, succeeding his own teacher Bazin in 1871. His pupils includes Gabriel Pierné, Claude Debussy, Camille Erlanger and Arthur Goring Thomas. Durand favored writing popular songs (chansons) and art songs (mélodies), although he also produced a few lighter works for s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Tourte
Louis François, better known as Francis Tourte, (8 June 1816 – 5 October 1891) was a 19th-century French composer, poet, chansonnier and playwright. He was François Tourte's grandson. He wrote lyrics for more than 500 songs and melodies, whose music he sometimes composed, operettas libretti and theatre plays which were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century including the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques, the Théâtre des Variétés, and the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens. Works Poetry *1841: ''Brises du matin'', poems *1843: ''Rémi ou Croyance et martyre'', short story in verse Theatre *1856: ''Une femme qui n'y est pas'', vaudeville in 1 act *1859: ''Le Docteur Tam-Tam'', opérette-bouffe in 1 act, music by Frédéric Barbier *1861: ''La Tour de Bondy'', folie musicale in 1 act, music by Deblond *1861: ''Si Pontoise le savait ''!, comédie-vaudeville in 1 act with Paul-Aimé Chapelle and Jules Adenis *1863: ''Madame Pygmalion' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operetta
Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs, and dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, length of the work, and at face value, subject matter. Apart from its shorter length, the operetta is usually of a light and amusing character. It sometimes also includes satirical commentaries. "Operetta" is the Italian diminutive of "opera" and was used originally to describe a shorter, perhaps less ambitious work than an opera. Operetta provides an alternative to operatic performances in an accessible form targeting a different audience. Operetta became a recognizable form in the mid-19th century in France, and its popularity led to the development of many national styles of operetta. Distinctive styles emerged across countries including Austria-Hungary, Germany, England, Spain, the Philippines, Mexico, Cuba, and the United States. Through the transfer of operetta among different countries, cultural cosmop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavier Eyma
Louis-Xavier Eyma (16 October 1816 – 20 March 1876) was a 19th-century French journalist and writer, author, among others, of novels, travel books and theater plays. Biography Born in Martinique, an illegitimate son of Louis, a French lawyer who had long worked in New Orleans and Victorine Eyma, Xavier Eyma studied in France and joined the Navy administration in Paris in 1836. He began to write in the Parisian press and in 1840 obtained a first success with his novel ''Le Médaillon''. Charged with a mission to West Indies in order to study education there (1845), he also traveled to the United States (1846) as French correspondent of the newspaper '' La Chronique '', which inspired him several travel stories. An editor at the ''Journal des actionnaires'' when he was back in France, he returned in 1858 to New-Orleans where his father lived, and worked there as director of the French section of ''L'Abeille'' (1858–1859). Among several American personalities, he engaged in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hippolyte Guérin
Hippolyte-Louis Guérin de Litteau (5 May 1797 – 19 December 1861) was a 19th-century French poet. Biography Born in Litteau, Calvados (department), Calvados, from a family established since the 17th century in Normandy (descendant of a captain of the bourgeois of the City of Bayeux), born in the castle of Litteau, Guérin was the son of the owner and director of several metallurgical establishments, managing himself the business of the blast furnaces of Montluçon of which he was one of the founders. His activity led him to reside for about twenty years in the Nivernais, in Decize, where he found many sources of inspiration. From 1843, still on business, Guérin joined Paris. - biographic notice in ''Légendes'', 1863 A well-known writer and appreciated by musicians, his poetry inspired many composers during the Second French Empire and the French Third Republic. Guérin is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery (58th division). His daughter married sculptor Eugène-Louis L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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