Throughout time, love has been a constant theme in music, literature and cinema. Love is perhaps one of the most obvious emotions to portray and can often be described as sensual, sexual, spiritual, or mystical and divine. The tradition of courtly love began in the 12th century with the traveling songs of troubadours and trouvères performing throughout Europe. Their love songs were the source of all Western vernacular poetry and through the evolution of time developed into the popular chanson of the 15th and 16th centuries. Perhaps the most common theme in Burgundian, Parisian and international chansons is that of fine amour or refined love. Due to the influence of culture and the passage of time, the subject matter and compositional style of the chanson changed as it moved through Burgundy, Paris, and eventually spread internationally. The Burgundian chanson, also known as Dutch, is the centuries-old song of the Low Countries which today includes Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. This style of chanson derives from the ancient troubadour and trouvère traditions of the Middle Ages. These chansons were written specifically to please the court of the four great dukes of the West, cousins ​​of the king of France: Philip the Bold, John the Fearless, Charles the Bold and Philip the Good. Kemp eloquently describes the Burgundian chanson style as "a tapestry woven not only of the dominant stylistic threads of French and Flemish composers, but also of the artistic interplay of English, Swiss, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese musicians..." While the chanson Burgundian in some aspects continued the traditions of the troubadours and trouvères with prevailing themes of courtly love, the texts of...... half of paper ......t. UDKC60710287. 1994. Online via Naxos.Lute Society of America, The. «Susanne one day.» Dartmouth University. www.cs.dartmouth.edu (accessed May 5, 2014).Miller, Leta Ellen. "The Songs of the French Provincial Composers, 1530-1550: A Study of Stylistic Trends, Volume 1." PhD diss., Stanford University, 1977. proquest.com (accessed 1 May 2014). Munrow, David. “The art of courtly love.” Oxford Journals Vol. 1, No.4 (1973), jstor.org (accessed 5 May 2014). Roden, Timothy. Anthology for music in Western civilization. Boston: Schurmer Cenegage Learning, 2010.Sermisy, Claudin de. "Je n'ay point plus d'affection." In Anthology of Renaissance music, ed. Allan W. Atlas. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.Sermisy, Claudin de. Les cris de Paris, songs by Janequin et Sermisy. Cleément Janequin Ensemble. ocm36863959. 1981. Compact Discs.