1 janv. 700 - First Record of Chanson

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1. Venantius Fortunatus (6th century), Planctus, & Chanson de geste (the Song of Roland, the battle of Roncevaux, 778)
• Writing pieces that we think were songs
• Later sources show them with melodies…did he write them? Maybe? Maybe not? Someone else could have set the poem to music
• Planctus
• : early genre, a lament
• Chanson de geste: The “song of thieves”. Another early genre.
o Song of Roland. He was one of Charlemagne’s generals
o Roland was in charge of the army, dies at the battle but saves the army, Christendom is saved, etc…
o One of the great secular songs of the Medieval

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