The love song is not a musical genre or musical style it occurs in all styles. The close relationship between poems and song lyrics was underscored when Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 for creating new poetic expressions in the great American song tradition. Poets such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Federico Garcia Lorca wrote romances, which were later set to music, such as Take this waltz by Leonard Cohen. A romance can be narrative and usually amorous, but also a simple aria in an opera, as examples, Plaisir d'amour by Padre Martini and Georges Bizet's aria 'Je crois entendre encore' (romance de Nadir) from the opera Les pГЄcheurs de perles.ДЇranz Schubert wrote several romances, and Giuseppe Verdi wrote 'Celeste Aida' about the impossible love for an Ethiopian slave girl.

The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that 'generally it implies a specially personal or tender quality'. Within Classical music, Romanticism is most commonly associated with love music, especially romantic love music, and the love song is called a romance, although the term is not limited to vocal music. Problems playing these files? See media help. Sung by Joseph Rogatechwsky in 1928 (3:26) The manuscript is from several lyricists, mostly unknown. The Gruuthuse manuscript - written in Middle Dutch - composed around 1400 in Bruges contains 147 songs, including a number of love songs with musical notation. The 14th century Codex Manesse includes love songs by dukes as John I, Duke of Brabant and William IX, Duke of Aquitaine. Generosity, nobility of character, receptivity to new experiences and attention to beauty and appearance are also common themes. A number of personae also constantly return, such as the lover who regrets being rejected by his lady, the lady who regrets the absence of her lord who is on a crusade. The worship of the lady is a recurring theme. The (unfulfilled, unattainable) courtly love in a noble environment is therefore central. Mediavel love songs are called 'Minnelied' in Middle High German, chant d'amour courtois by troubadour ( Langues d'oc) or trouvГЁre ( Langues d'oГЇl). De Rougemont's thesis is that the love song grew out of the courtly love songs of the troubadours, and that those songs represented a rejection of the historical Christian notion of love. 28r of the Gruuthuuse-manuscript, with to the bottom right the song ' Egidius waer bestu bleven' Medieval music ДЄ highly controversial and startling explanation of the genesis of love songs can be found in Denis de Rougemont's 'Love in the Western World'. It was not until the 9th century that a musical notation was developed in the Eastern Roman Empire, the neume notation, and after the addition of lines the staff was created around the 11th century, with which music is only well documented from this period.ДЇol. In Ancient Greece civilization music was certainly made at weddings, and there were certainly love songs, as Erato as a muse was the protector of the love song, but our knowledge is written on myths and on pictures (as on vases) and not on written music based. Herbert Spencer saw music develop from a passionate eloquence, and music arise as an expression of emotions. According to Charles Darwin, it has to do with the choice of partner between woman and man (women choose male partners based on musical performances), and so the first music would be love music. There are several theories about the origin of music in a general sense.

Prior to the discovery of the love song of Shu-Sin, Solomon's Song of Songs from the Bible was considered the oldest love song. It's about both romantic and erotic love.

The oldest known love song is the love song of Shu-Sin, which was discovered in the library of Ashurbanipal in Mesopotamia. Love songs have been around for centuries and can be found in the histories and cultures of most societies, though their ubiquity is a modern phenomenon.

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