Surname
Boyvin
Given Name
Jean
Variant Name
Boivin
Role
Basse taille
Bassus
Composer (no known polyphonic works preserved)
Employee of a court chapel (musician)
Known voice range
Musician
Singer
Active period
1539 - 1539
Institution
Chapelle royale de France
Biography
Voir Dictionnaire
= Boyvin (attr.)* ?
NG2 Fétis identified the composer with Jean Boyvin, a singer (basse-taille) in the chapel of the dauphin, Duke Henri of Orléans, in 1539; he might, however, be identified with Anthoine Boyvin who was organist to Henri in 1543. Most of the chansons use courtly decasyllabic épigrammes of eight or ten lines, and the musical settings faithfully reflect the poetic form with regular caesuras after the fourth syllable. Their style is generally suave and homophonic and akin to that of Sandrin. Two, Je sens l'affection and Je cherche autant amour (both ed. in SCC, ix, 1994), became favourites and were reprinted and intabulated for guitar and lute several times. Another, Mort sans soleil (ed. F. Lesure, Anthologie de la chanson parisienne, Monaco, 1953), sets Marot's translation of Petrarch's Lasciato hai morte, and represents one of the first complete sonnet settings in France.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BrownI
FétisB
D. Heartz: Pierre Attaingnant, Royal Printer of Music (Berkeley, 1969)
FRANK DOBBINS
= Boyvin (attr.)* ?
NG2 Fétis identified the composer with Jean Boyvin, a singer (basse-taille) in the chapel of the dauphin, Duke Henri of Orléans, in 1539; he might, however, be identified with Anthoine Boyvin who was organist to Henri in 1543. Most of the chansons use courtly decasyllabic épigrammes of eight or ten lines, and the musical settings faithfully reflect the poetic form with regular caesuras after the fourth syllable. Their style is generally suave and homophonic and akin to that of Sandrin. Two, Je sens l'affection and Je cherche autant amour (both ed. in SCC, ix, 1994), became favourites and were reprinted and intabulated for guitar and lute several times. Another, Mort sans soleil (ed. F. Lesure, Anthologie de la chanson parisienne, Monaco, 1953), sets Marot's translation of Petrarch's Lasciato hai morte, and represents one of the first complete sonnet settings in France.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BrownI
FétisB
D. Heartz: Pierre Attaingnant, Royal Printer of Music (Berkeley, 1969)
FRANK DOBBINS