Fors seulement is a French

chanson A (, ; , ) is generally any Lyrics, lyric-driven French song. The term is most commonly used in English to refer either to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval music, medieval and Renaissance music or to a specific style of ...

, popular as a basis for variations and as a

cantus firmus In music, a ''cantus firmus'' ("fixed melody") is a pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition. The plural of this Latin term is , although the corrupt form ''canti firmi'' (resulting from the grammatically incorrect trea ...

. An early version, attributed to

Johannes Ockeghem Johannes Ockeghem ( – 6 February 1497) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of early Renaissance music. Ockeghem was a significant European composer in the period between Guillaume Du Fay and Josquin des Prez, and he was—with his colle ...

, is sometimes called ''Fors seulement l'attente'' to distinguish it from his similarly titled ''Fors seulement contre''. Brumel wrote a polytextual version, combining a tenor setting of '' Du tout plongiet'' with the words and ''

superius In early music polyphony, ''superius'' or cantus is the Latin language-derived name given to the highest voice or part.Arnold D. (ed), ''New Oxford Companion to Music'', Oxford, (1983) See also * Voice type A voice type is a classification of ...

'' from Ockeghem's ''Fors seulement l'attente'' for baritone.

Lyrics

Versions and settings

Many versions of the chanson were produced including those by

Josquin des Prez Josquin Lebloitte dit des Prez ( – 27 August 1521) was a composer of High Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he was a central figure of the ...

, Pierre de La Rue,

Matthaeus Pipelare Matthaeus Pipelare ( – ) was a Dutch School (music), Netherlandish composer, choir director, and possibly wind instrument player of the Renaissance music, Renaissance. He was from Leuven, Louvain, and spent part of his early life in Antwerp. U ...

, Johannes Ghiselin,

Jacob Obrecht Jacob Obrecht (also Hobrecht; 1457/8

Antoine Brumel Antoine Brumel (c. 1460 – 1512 or 1513) was a French composer. He was one of the first renowned French members of the Franco-Flemish School, Franco-Flemish school of the Renaissance music, Renaissance, and, after Josquin des Prez, was one of t ...

, Jheronimus Vinders and Alexander Agricola.

Mass Mass is an Intrinsic and extrinsic properties, intrinsic property of a physical body, body. It was traditionally believed to be related to the physical quantity, quantity of matter in a body, until the discovery of the atom and particle physi ...

settings include those by Vinders, Ockeghem, Obrecht, Pipelare, and

Carpentras Carpentras (, formerly ; Provençal dialect, Provençal Occitan language, Occitan: ''Carpentràs'' in classical norm or ''Carpentras'' in Mistralian norm; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Vaucluse Departments of France, department in the ...

.Black (2003), pp. 48; 65.

References

Citations

Sources

* George H Black (2003). ''Matthaeus Pipelare’s Fors Seulement (II) Chanson and its Related Motet and Mass Performance Editions and Commentary.'' DMA thesis. Louisiana State Univ.
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