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A Quick Lai
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Lai or lay, a term from Old French meaning a short lyric or narrative poem.
alternative electronica pop rock vincent knobil
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Franglophone songwriter extraordinaire.
In a nutshell, I’m French and American, I’ve lived in Paris, London, Brussels and New York, and I’ve been creating unusual musical entertainment since before you were born.
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Alternative • Avant Rock
Charts
Peak #570
Peak in subgenre #36
Author
Pamela Poole/Vincent Knobil
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2007, Vincent Knobil
Uploaded
December 10, 2007
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MP3 2.7 MB • 128 kbps • 2:58
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Lai or lay, a term from Old French meaning a short lyric or narrative poem. The Contes (c. 1175) of Marie de France were narrative lais of Arthurian legend and other subjects from Breton folklore, written in octosyllabic couplets. They provided the model for the so‐called ‘Breton lays’ in English in the 14th century, which include Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale and the anonymous Sir Orfeo. Since the 16th century, the term has applied to songs in general, and to short narrative poems, as in T. B. Macaulay’s Lays of Ancient Rome (1842).
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