tenson

• Among forms which cannot be included under the general title of chansons, are those in dialogue derived from the Provenηal literature; in the tenson or dιbat the two interlocutors put forth their opinions on what theme they may please; in the jeu parti one of the imagined disputants proposes two contrary solutions of some poetical or amorous question, and defends whichever solution his associate refuses to accept; the earliest jeu parti_, attributed to Gace Brulι and Count Geoffroi of Brittany, belongs to the second half of the twelfth century. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• When more than two singers took part in a tenson, it became a tournament. —  Woman's Work in Music
• Disputes before these courts usually took the form of the tenson, or contention, already described Many are the legendary accounts of the laws upon which these courts based their decisions. —  Woman's Work in Music
• _This group contains two-part songs, arranged dialogue-fashion, like a debat or a tenson. —  A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs
• "Heavenly Grandchild," tenson —  A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

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