A bergerette, or shepherdess' air, is a form of early rustic French song.
The bergerette, developed by Burgundian composers, is a virelai with only one stanza.[1][2][3] It is one of the "fixed forms" of early French song and related to the rondeau.[4] Examples include Josquin's Bergerette savoyene included in Petrucci's Odhecaton (1501).[5]
^Henri Louis Chatelain Recherches sur le vers français au XVe siècle: rimes, mètres et ... 1908 p197 "Le virelai n'est plus alors que la bergerette, c'est-à-dire un rondeau, dont le deuxième élément est sur d'autres ... Charles d'Orléans a laissé une pièce qui réunit les caractères du rondeau et de la bergerette"
^The Chansonnier El Escorial IV.a.24 Real Biblioteca, Martha K. Hanen - 1983 "The Virelai Texts - A virelai text which has but a single stanza is properly termed a bergerette. All the virelais in Escorial IV.a.24 have single-stanza or bergerette texts. Since the music for a virelai is exactly the same as that for a ..."
^Music Literature Outline 1: Outline 1, Middle Ages and Renaissance p96 Harold Gleason, Warren Becker, Catherine C. Gleason - 1988 "Chanson is a generic term and includes the formes fixes: rondeau, virelai, ballade and bergerette. ... The bergerette, developed by Burgundian composers, is similar to the virelai but with only one stanza.
^Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol.41, American Musicological Society - 1988 "... untexted pieces in Q 18 can be placed, with a certain degree of overlap, in various categories. A number are based on vocal models, relying loosely on the structure of the formes fixes, particularly the rondeau or bergerette."
^Harmonice musices odhecaton A printer Ottaviano Petrucci, ed Helen Hewitt, Isabel Pope - 1978 "The Odhecaton and Brux 1 show complete bergerette music, ie, musical sections, a and p. Brux 1 also gives words of ... There seems little reason to doubt that the original form of the composition was the 'long' form, or, bergerette."
A bergerette, or shepherdess' air, is a form of early rustic French song. The bergerette, developed by Burgundian composers, is a virelai with only one...
music periods, air de cour; popular songs from the 17th to 19th century, bergerette, brunette, chanson pour boire, pastourelle, and vaudeville; art song of...
not survived. A virelai with only a single stanza is also known as a bergerette. The virelai as a song form of the 14th and early 15th century usually...
villancico. Other secular vocal genres included the caccia, rondeau, virelai, bergerette, ballade, musique mesurée, canzonetta, villanella, villotta, and the lute...
94/1 Sonnet in B-flat major Op. 94/3 Shepherd and Shepherdess (Berger et bergerette) Op. 94/4 Mélodie in B major Op. 94/5 Gavotte in C major Op. 94/6 Con...
troix parties by Tielman Susato, Anvers 1544 Tielman Susato: Rondo 1: pour quoy played by Classical Jam Tielman Susato: Bergerette played by Classical Jam...
Burgundians were the four formes fixes (rondeau, ballade, virelai, and bergerette), all generically known as chansons. Of the four, the rondeau was by far...
story entitled The Jacknife. Her musical compositions include: Chamber Bergerette (flute and strings) Operetta Rabbit's Foot (lyrics by Grace Sherwood)...
moy (6vv) Baisé moy, ma doulce amye (4vv) Belle, pour l'amour de vous Bergerette savoyenne Cela sans plus Comment peult haver joye Cueur langoreulx De...
bergerette layee, 'Terriblement suis fortunée' (a complaint of a betrayed woman). At the time the song was composed (before c.1456), the bergerette form...
Martinů Piano Trio No. 1 ("Cinq pièces brèves"), H. 193 (1930) Five Bergerettes for piano trio, H. 275 (1939) Piano Trio No. 2 in D minor, H. 327 (1950)...
this time dressed in green and ornamented with flowers. They perform a bergerette, a dance-song, in praise of the daisy, until they are overcome first by...
Obrecht 58 Mon pere m'a done (donné) mari 4 Loyset Compère 59 Vergironette (Bergerette) savosienne 4 Josquin des Prez HAR 60 Ic hoerde de clocskins luden 4 Jacob...
on which his reputation mainly rests. Most are rondeaux, but some are bergerettes; many of them achieved the status of popular songs, and some were perhaps...
harp (or piano) La jambe me fait mal O douce nuit Nous étions trois Bergerettes Et Bon, Bon, Bon Ecoutez tous bergers, for mixed choir and piano 1931:...
motet-chansons, secular songs in the prevailing formes fixes such as rondeaux and bergerettes, other chansons, and instrumental music. Much of his instrumental music...
amer II (4vv); Je le sçay bien (3vv) (Rondeau); Nul ne l'a tele (3vv) (Bergerette, based on "Je ne viz onques la pareille" by Guillaume Dufay, Gilles Binchois...
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