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Richafort, Jean: 5 Chansons rustiques

for 3 voices or instruments.

These five chansons rustiques are typical of a kind of chanson that flourished around the beginning of the sixteenth century, though one of the main sources, Antico & Brabate´s La Couronne de chansons a troys (Venice, 1536) did not appear until 1536. In some cases (e.g. L´amour de moy) the melodies have survived in other settings; but it is likely that all five pieces are based on popular tunes of the day, presented in all cases in the tenor part. However, all three parts use the basic material, and there is a great deal of imitation. This obviously has implications for performance: if only one part is to be sung, it should be the middle voice, and even in a purely instrumental performance the tenor line should ring through clearly.
The fact that these pieces are part of a repertoire based on given melodies - whether strictly “popular” or not - has implications for performance. It was normal to notate settings of this kind of repertoire in a given mode, regardless of the layout of the parts, so that, for instance, all the settings of L´amour de moy, are written in F, even though Richafort´s has two high parts sharing the same range. With much Renaissance music the notated pitch has little to do with practical considerations, but this is even more the case with pieces like these. So performers should feel very free to transpose the pieces to suit their ensemble.
In this edition the original note values have been halved throughout. A few editorial accidentals are printed small above the stave, applying to the one note only; for the sake of convenience, the original accidentals are taken as
applying to the whole bar.