Surname
Besancourt
Given Name
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Role
Composer
Musician
Active period
1549 - 1568
Biography
FreedmanDC
Besancourt 2. French composer active during the middle years of the sixteenth century. Nine chansons are ascribed to him in publications of Attaingnant, Du Chemin, and Le Roy et Ballard. Dobbins describes his works as homorhythmic, and comparatively old-fashioned by the 1550’s. Frank Dobbins, “Besancourt,” New Grove 2, III, 483.
NG2
Besancourt
(fl 1549–68). French composer. Nine four-voice chansons by him, all with languishing, amorous texts, were printed in Paris by Pierre Attaingnant, Nicolas Du Chemin and Le Roy & Ballard. They are composed in a courtly musical idiom and a homophonic style that was rather old-fashioned by the late 1550s.
WORKS
all for 4 voices
Hélas mes yeux, 15579; Jeune beauté, bon esprit, bonne grace (C. Marot), 155910, ed. in SCC, ix (1994); Las qui eust deu voir, 155910, ed. in SCC, ix (1994); Ne te voyant je languis, 155712; Puisque je dois vivre en malheur, 156810a; Qui le sommeil à la mort, 154924; Qui pourra dire la douleur, 155320; Si vostre mal, 15579; Si vous eussiés le naturel préveu, 154924
Vive sera et tousjours perdurable, attrib. Besancourt in 15736, is by Arcadelt.
FRANK DOBBINS
Besancourt 2. French composer active during the middle years of the sixteenth century. Nine chansons are ascribed to him in publications of Attaingnant, Du Chemin, and Le Roy et Ballard. Dobbins describes his works as homorhythmic, and comparatively old-fashioned by the 1550’s. Frank Dobbins, “Besancourt,” New Grove 2, III, 483.
NG2
Besancourt
(fl 1549–68). French composer. Nine four-voice chansons by him, all with languishing, amorous texts, were printed in Paris by Pierre Attaingnant, Nicolas Du Chemin and Le Roy & Ballard. They are composed in a courtly musical idiom and a homophonic style that was rather old-fashioned by the late 1550s.
WORKS
all for 4 voices
Hélas mes yeux, 15579; Jeune beauté, bon esprit, bonne grace (C. Marot), 155910, ed. in SCC, ix (1994); Las qui eust deu voir, 155910, ed. in SCC, ix (1994); Ne te voyant je languis, 155712; Puisque je dois vivre en malheur, 156810a; Qui le sommeil à la mort, 154924; Qui pourra dire la douleur, 155320; Si vostre mal, 15579; Si vous eussiés le naturel préveu, 154924
Vive sera et tousjours perdurable, attrib. Besancourt in 15736, is by Arcadelt.
FRANK DOBBINS