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Lied is a term to describe setting poetry to classical music to create a piece of polyphonic music. The term is used for songs from the late fourteenth or early fifteenth centuries or even to refer to Minnesang from as early as the 12th and 13th centurie
A chanson is generally any lyric-driven French song, though it most often refers to the polyphonic French song of late medieval and Renaissance music.
