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In France, music reflects a diverse array of styles. In the field of classical music, France has produced several prominent romantic composers, while folk and popular music have seen the rise of the chanson and cabaret style. The oldest playable musical recordings were made in France using the earlist known sound recording device in the world, the phonautograph, which was patented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1857. France is also the 5th largest market by value in the world, and its music industry has produced many internationally renowned artists, especially in the nouvelle chanson and electronic music.
In France, music reflects a diverse array of styles. In the field of classical music, France has produced several prominent romantic composers, while...
French pop music is pop music sung in the French language. It is usually performed by singers from France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, or any of the...
France has a rich music history that was already prominent in Europe as far back as the 10th century. Frenchmusic originated as a unified style in medieval...
French electronic music is a panorama ofFrenchmusic that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. Notable...
French rock is a form of rock music produced in France, primarily with lyrics in the French language. French rock was born as early as mid-1950s, when...
American umbrella division of multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation. It is the recording division of the Sony Music Group, with the other half...
The musicofFrench Polynesia came to the forefront of the world music scene in 1992, with the release of The Tahitian Choir's recordings of unaccompanied...
Europe experienced a wave of roots revivals in the 1950s and 1960s, France found its regional culture reviving traditional music. Brittany, Limousin, Gascony...
French popular music is a musicofFrance belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed...
French classical music began with the sacred musicof the Roman Catholic Church, with written records predating the reign of Charlemagne. It includes all...
and Indian oceans, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and...
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Australian radio station ABC Classic FM held a Classic 100 MusicofFrance countdown. The selection of works that were available in the survey was determined...
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French hip hop or commonly French rap (French: rap français, [ʁap fʁɑ̃sɛ]), is the hip hop music style developed in French-speaking countries. France...
The Kingdom ofFrance is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities ofFrance in the medieval and early modern period...
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The musicof Latin America refers to music originating from Latin America, namely the Romance-speaking regions of the Americas south of the United States...
historically linked to both East Africa and France, and now has a strong Malagasy influence. Zanzibar's taarab music, however, remains the most influential...
The French Navy (French: Marine nationale, lit. 'National Navy'), informally La Royale, is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the...
See: MusicofFrance The most well-known kind ofFrenchmusic in the United States is that of the Cajuns of Louisiana. Cajun and Creole music has spawned...
reference to music, in an anonymous, satirical review of the première in October 1733 of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie, printed in the Mercure de France in May...
YouTube Music is a music streaming service developed by the American video platform YouTube, a subsidiary of Google. The service is designed with a user...
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