Virelai - Wikipedia A virelai is a form of medieval French verse used often in poetry and music It is one of the three formes fixes (the others were the ballade and the rondeau) and was one of the most common verse forms set to music in Europe from the late thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries
Virelai | Medieval French Poetry Music | Britannica virelai, one of several formes fixes (“fixed forms”) in French lyric poetry and song of the 14th and 15th centuries (compare ballade; rondeau) It probably did not originate in France, and it takes on several different forms even within the French tradition
What does virelai mean? - Definitions. net A virelai is a form of medieval French verse used often in poetry and music It is one of the three formes fixes (the others were the ballade and the rondeau) and was one of the most common verse forms set to music in Europe from the late thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries
Poetry Guide: Virelai - LanguageIsAVirus. com A virelai is a form of medieval French verse used often in poetry and music It is one of the three formes fixes (the others were the ballade and the rondeau ), and was one of the most common verse forms set to music in Europe from the late 13th to the 15th centuries
Machaut, Guillaume de (c. 1300–1377) - Virelais - Poetry In Translation The virelai verse form (Machaut calls his virelais ‘chansons balladées’) was one of the three ‘formes fixes’, the other two being the ballade and the rondeau, popular from the 13th to the 15th century, and often set to music
virelai - Wiktionary, the free dictionary virelai (plural virelais) (historical, poetry) A medieval poetic form consisting of two or more three line units in each stanza, in the form aabaab and continuing on in that pattern
VIRELAY Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meaning of VIRELAY is a chiefly French verse form having stanzas of indeterminate length and number, alternating long and short lines, and interlaced rhyme (such as abab bcbc cdcd dada)
Virelai | Definition on FreeMusicDictionary. com A Medieval and Renaissance form of French poetry and song, written in an ABBA form with a courtly text The origin of the word " virelai " is the Old French word "Virer ", meaning "to turn" or "to twist", indicating that the song form originated from a dance form