Unzièsme livre de chansons (Le Roy and Ballard)
General information
Title: Unzièsme livre de chansons
Full Title: Unzièsme livre de chansons nouvellement composées en Musique à 4. & 5. parties par plusieurs Autheurs, Contenant la Guerre Marine, la bataille de Renty, le vol de la Perdrix, avec un quarillons de cloches, & plusieurs autres chansons
Publication date and place: 1559 in Paris by Adrien Le Roy and Robert Ballard.
Genre, Subgenre: Secular, Chansons. Language: French.
Description: Le Roy and Ballard's eleventh book of chansons. This collection contains works for four and five voices and was published as four partbooks. It was reprinted in 1562 and 1567 with three chansons dropped and five new works added. Another edition followed in 1573, dropping two works by Goudimel and adding another by Janequin. A further edition, in 1578, dropped the rest of the works by Goudimel and Pierre Certon and added another by Guillaume Costeley.
Facsimiles:
- Royal Holloway Repository - 1567 edition; Superius, Tenor, and Bassus only
- Royal Holloway Repository - 1573 edition; Contratenor only
List of works
| 1559 No. |
1567 No. |
1573 No. |
1578 No. |
Title | Composer | Voices | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | Quarillon de cloches ("Resveilles vous") | Fourmentin | 5 | |
| 2 | Guerre de Renty ("Branlez vos piques") | Clément Janequin | 4 | ||||
| 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | Guerre marine ("Sus mathelots") | Desbordes | 4 | |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | Chasse de la Perdix | Delafont | 4 | |
| 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | Qui veut ouir chansonnette | Guillaume Nicolas | 5 | "Canon ad longum" in Superius |
| 6 | Un jour vis un foullon qui foulloit | Jean Hérissant | 4 | ||||
| 7 | Je ne veut rien qu'un baiser de la bouche | Pierre Certon | 4 | ||||
| 8 | 4 | 4 | Chant de Rossignol ("En escoutant") | Pierre Certon | 4 | ||
| 9 | 5 | 5 | 5 | Venez danser au son de ma musette | Guillaume Costeley | 4 | |
| 6 | 6 | 6 | Or dansons donc maudit soit | Touteau | 4 | ||
| 8 | 8 | Tu me fais mourir | Claude Goudimel | 4 | |||
| 9 | 10 | Du jour que je feux amoureux | Claude Goudimel | 4 | |||
| 10 | Celuy qui n'ayme est malheureux | Claude Goudimel | 4 | ||||
| 11 | Il me semble que la journee | Claude Goudimel | 4 | ||||
| 9 | 4 | Ouvrez moy l'huys | Clément Janequin | 4 | |||
| 1 | Las, je n'yray plus | Guillaume Costeley | 4 |
Works at CPDL
| Title | Composer | Year | No. | Subgenre | Vo. | Voices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La guerre de Renty - Verger de musique | Clément Janequin | 1559 | 2 | Chansons | 4 | SATB |