secular song

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secular
adjective
uk
/ˈsek.jə.lər/us
/ˈsek.jə.lɚ/
not having any connection ...
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song
noun
uk
/sɒŋ/us
/sɑːŋ/
a usually short piece of music with words that ...
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(Definition ofsecularandsongfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It emulates how someone in his position may well sing on the spur of such a moment; he borrows elements ofsecularsong, without matching it exactly in structural design.
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Alongside these traditions of sacred and church music there existed a vibrant tradition ofsecularsong.
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It was probably used for this purpose more than any othersecularsong: over 40 settings are known.
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Machaut helped develop the motet andsecularsongforms (particularly the lai and the "formes fixes": rondeau, virelai and ballade).
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Of his secular songs, one became immensely popular.
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Only fifteen pieces are found in sources of the period: ten secular songs, a lauda, and four instrumental compositions.
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There are more secular songs on this album than on its immediate predecessor.
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The music at the church is a contemporary but gritty rock, and there are occasional covers of popular secular songs that fit that week's message.
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They are almost exclusively secular songs, and have as their subject matter love, war, chivalry, and stories from classical antiquity.
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All of the sources are motets; unlike many composers of parody masses, he avoided secular songs as sources.
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Most of his secular songs are rondeaux, which became the most common song form during the century.
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Secular songs include a number of social dances, such as the triple meter round dances and songs to inspire warriors or recent exploits.
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He compiled four sacred tunebooks in the years 1797-1806, and also issued a book of secular songs with music.
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The second contains 34 strophic secular songs, set somewhat more freely and in a more ornamented manner.
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Many of the secular songs are quodlibets.
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The council limited relations between monks and laymen and ruled that secular activities were impermissible for monks: secular business and secular songs were both forbidden, especially ludicrous songs.
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A collection of secular songs, it has been described as a treatise on singing technique aimed at the growing number of amateur musicians who wished to improve their skills.
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His compositional output mainly consists of sacred music, although he did compose some secular songs for voice and piano and a number of works for solo piano.
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Pipelare's style was wide-ranging; he wrote in almost all of the vocal forms current in his day: masses, motets, secular songs in all the local languages.
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