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The Tournai Mass is the first known mass to have been written in a manuscript as if it were a single unified setting of the entire Ordinary. Three other similarly compiled masses from the 13th and early 14th century survive: the Toulouse Mass, Barcelona Mass, and Sorbonne Mass (also known as the Besançon Mass).
Tournai, known as Tornacum, was a place of minor importance in Roman times, a stopping place where the Roman road from Cologne on the Rhine to Boulogne on the coast crossed the river Scheldt. It was fortified under Emperor Maximian in the 3rd century AD, [6] when the Roman limes was withdrawn to the string of outposts along the road.
Raï (/ raɪ.i /, / raɪ /; Arabic: راي, rāʾy, [raʔi]), sometimes written rai, is a form of Algerian folk music that dates back to the 1920s. Singers of Raï are called cheb (Arabic: شاب) or shabab, i.e. young, as opposed to sheikh (Arabic: شيخ, shaykh), i.e. old, the name given to Chaabi singers. The tradition arose in the city of ...
Un Canadien errant. " Un Canadien errant " ("A Wandering Canadian") is a song written in 1842 by Antoine Gérin-Lajoie after the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837–38. Some of the rebels were condemned to death, others forced into exile to the United States [n 1][1] and as far as Australia. [n 2] Gérin-Lajoie wrote the song, about the pain of ...
Mirrors for princes or mirrors of princes (Latin: specula principum) was a literary genre of didactic political writings throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.It was part of the broader speculum or mirror literature genre.
Released. ~ 1604. Genre. Traditional. Songwriter (s) Unknown. " À la claire fontaine " (French: [a la klɛʁ (ə) fɔ̃tɛn]; lit. 'By the clear fountain') is a traditional French song, which has also become very popular in Belgium and in Canada, particularly in Quebec and the Maritime provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward ...
New Woman" is a " Y2K -inspired" pop and electronic song with trap sonorities [7] that runs for 3 minutes. [8][9][10] It starts with Lisa singing about "walking through fire to rediscover shes is a 'New Woman' with a 'revved up aura'". [11] The singer also "talks of blooming like a flower, walking through the fire, taking her time and ...
Tournai: Francia: Belgium: 431 486 Under kings Childeric I and Clovis I, Tournai was the capital of the Frankish empire. In the year 486, Clovis moved the centre of power to Paris, as a result, the Low Countries region ceased to be the political centre of the Frankish empire. Kelmis: Neutral Moresnet: Belgium