Song
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...before the baroque period are those of the troubadours , trouveres , minnesingers , and meistersingers...lyrical air de cour of late 16th-century France, for one or more voices with lute accompaniment...that is a hybrid of song and speech. In France a renewed interest in song composition...