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151 Chansons

Franco-American chansons populaires or chants populaires directly translates to “popular song” or “people’s song”, but actually refers to what we now would call folk music or traditional music. Many of these songs feature call-and-response, which I have marked in the style used by Eusèbe Viau and J. Ernest Philie : solo (call) and ch oe ur (=sing in “choir”, or response). With the exception of one song, these songs have no known author. They come from a time where knowledge of authorship was not transferred from person to person, except in cases where the author of the song is mentioned in the lyrics. These songs were composed between the 1400s and the early 1900s, one of the earliest representatives being Ne pleure pas, Jeannette, known in medieval France as La Pernette se lève. The oldest songs come from France; newer ones come from La Nouvelle France, modern-day Acadia and Québec. These songs were brought to the United States regions of New England and upstate New York by those who left Canada during what is now referred to as La Grande Saignée or La Grande Hémorragie — roughly 1 / 3 of Québec (and much of other provinces) emptied into the northeast of the United States, and bec

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