The popular song Se canta today brings together all the Pays d’Oc, from the Médoc to the Occitan valleys of Italy, from Limousin to the southern Pyrenean slopes.

Aquel songs de segur lo mai conegut e espandit dels cants tradicionals Occitans like Lo Boièr, Carnaval es arribat, Diga Joaneta, Jol pont de Mirabel, mai que los cants felibrencs Magali or La copa Santa, may que L’encantada del group Nadau.

Wrongly attributed to the Pyrenean Occitan prince Gaston Fébus (14th century), the Se canta is similar in style and language, on the one hand, to the anonymous shepherds’ songs of the Renaissance and Baroque periods (16th-18th centuries), and on the other, to Iberian or Sephardic romances. But it seemed prestigious to attribute the poetic and musical creation of the Se canta to Gaston Fébus, especially since his court was one of the European centers of musical research, and he called himself the heir of the Troubadours.
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