A poetic form of a lai commonly has many stanzas, none of which develop the equivalent form. Following, a incidental to music consists of sections which don't repetition. This distinguishes a lai from either more most common types of musically crucial verse of a time period (for instance, the rondeau and the ballade). Towards a prevent of its development in the 14th century, a select few lais repeat stanzas, however normally single in the protracted examples. There exists of these super late lesson of a lai, written to mourn a kill of the French at the battle of Agincourt (1415), (Lay de la guerre, by Pierre de Nesson) but there are no music for it lives.

There are quaternary lais in the Roman de Fauvel, all of the two anon.. A lai reached its greatest level of development as a musical theater & poetic form in the act of Guillaume de Machaut; 19 separate lais by this 14th-century ars nova composer survive, & it is among his virtually all sophisticated & extremely-developed lay compositions.

More terms for even a lai, or for forms which were super similar to the lai, include the descort (Provençal) and a leich (German).

Composers of Lais

Aimeric de Peguilhan Guilhem Augier Novella Charles d'Anjou Tannhäuser Gautier de Coinci Gautier de Dargies Guillaume li Vinier Adam de Givenchi Thomas Herier Guillaume de Machaut Philippe de Vitry (uncertain; works attributed to him may be anon.)