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A Lai was a song form composed in northern Europe, mainly France and Germany, from the 13th to the late 14th century. Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europes borders. ...
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The poetic form of the lai usually has several stanzas, none of which have the same form. As a result, the accompanying music consists of sections which do not repeat. This distinguishes the lai from other common types of musically important verse of the period (for example, the rondeau and the ballade). Towards the end of its development in the 14th century, some lais repeat stanzas, but usually only in the longer examples. There is one very late example of a lai, written to mourn the defeat of the French at the Battle of Agincourt (1415), (Lay de la guerre, by Pierre de Nesson) but no music for it survives. In poetry, a stanza is a unit within a larger poem. ...
Music is a form of expression in the medium of time using the structures of tones and silence. ...
A Rondeau is a form of French poetry with 13 lines written on two rhymes, as well as a corresponding musical form developed to set this characteristic verse structure. ...
The ballade was a verse form consisting of three (sometimes five) stanzas, each with the same metre, rhyme scheme and last line, with a shorter concluding stanza (an envoi). ...
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There are four lais in the Roman de Fauvel, all of them anonymous. The lai reached its highest level of development as a musical and poetic form in the work of Guillaume de Machaut; 19 separate lais by this 14th-century ars nova composer survive, and they are among his most sophisticated and highly-developed secular compositions. The Roman de Fauvel was first published in Paris in 1314, in a climate of political instability. ...
Guillaume de Machaut (around 1300 – 1377), was a French composer and poet of the late Medieval era. ...
The ars nova was a stylistic period in music of the Late Middle Ages, centered in France, which encompassed the period from the publication of the Roman de Fauvel (1310 and 1314) until the death of Machaut (1377). ...
Other terms for the lai, or for forms which were very similar to the lai, include the descort (Provençal) and the leich (German). Provençal (Prouvençau in Provençal language) is one of several dialects of the Romance language Occitan, which is spoken by a minority of people in southern France and other areas of France. ...
Composers of lais
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Guillaume de Machaut (around 1300 – 1377), was a French composer and poet of the late Medieval era. ...
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