| When I was down in Transylvania I made a chanson about it all, and set it myself to music. |
| Every 'bar' of the music is called either a 'battement' of the drum, or a 'mesure' of the chanson. |
| The audience greeted Brel's show with rapturous applause, while the critics hailed him as the new star of French chanson. |
| Others, such as the chanson de toile and the pastourelle, hint at popular traditions of song. |
| Hugo has selected the first and the best part of the chanson for modernization. |
| Despite their momentariness within the whole work, it is probable that a late 15 th-century audience familiar with the chanson would have found these quotations striking. |
