Barbingant (maybe Pierre; fl. c. 1460) was a French composer to whom is attributed the earliest known surviving

parody mass A parody mass is a musical setting of the mass, typically from the 16th century, that uses multiple voices of a pre-existing piece of music, such as a fragment of a motet or a secular ''chanson'', as part of its melodic material. It is distinguis ...

, a three-voice mass based on the

virelai A ''virelai'' is a form of medieval French verse used often in poetry and music. It is one of the three '' formes fixes'' (the others were the ballade and the rondeau) and was one of the most common verse forms set to music in Europe from the ...

"Terriblement suis fortunée". Barbignant's chanson "Au travail suis" was the base of a parody mass by Ockeghem. His works are included in the Opera Omnia of the slightly later composer Jacob Barbireau, choirmaster at Antwerp, but the two composers are separated in musicology after 1960. Scott Metcalfe, in his programme notes for a concert that included the chanson ''Au travail suis'' and Ockeghem's mass setting, notes that

Guillaume Crétin Guillaume Cretin (c. 1460 – 30 November 1525) was a French coterie poet who is considered to belong to the network of the Grands Rhétoriqueurs ("rhetoricians"). He is sometimes mistakenly referred to as Guillaume Dubois, but this is a wordplay ...

’s ''Déploration...sur le trépas de Jean Okeghem'' includes Barbingant in the choir of illustrious musicians who welcome Ockeghem into heaven.

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