"Baisez-moi" (French: "Kiss me") is a

renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas ...

French

chanson A (, , french: chanson française, link=no, ; ) is generally any lyric-driven French song, though it most often refers to the secular polyphonic French songs of late medieval and Renaissance music. The genre had origins in the monophonic s ...

for 4 voices, anonymous in publication by

Pierre Attaignant Pierre Attaingnant (or Attaignant) (c. 1494 – late 1551 or 1552) was a French music publisher, active in Paris. Life Attaingnant is considered to be first large-scale publisher of single-impression movable type for music-printing, thus making it ...

but attributed to the composer

Josquin Desprez 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 ...

. The song was the model for masses by Petrus Roselli and the ''Missa Baises-moy'' by

Mathurin Forestier Mathurin Forestier (fl. c. 1500) was a French Renaissance composer. Works * ''Missa L'homme arme'' * ''Missa Baises moy'', after the song Baisez Moi attributed to Josquin Josquin Lebloitte dit des Prez ( – 27 August 1521) was a composer of ...

Lyrics

:Baisez moy ma doulce amy :Par amour je vous en prie :Non feray. Et pour quoy? :Si je faisois la folie :Ma mere en seroit marye :Vela de quoy.

Recordings

The song was recorded by the

Kings Singers The King's Singers are a British a cappella vocal ensemble founded in 1968. They are named after King's College in Cambridge, England, where the group was formed by six choral scholars. In the United Kingdom, their popularity peaked in the 19 ...

on the 1975 album ''The Kings Singers Concert Collection'' in a sequence of 5 chansons: La belle Margarite by

Clemens non Papa Jacobus Clemens non Papa (also Jacques Clément or Jacob Clemens non Papa) ( – 1555 or 1556) was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance based for most of his life in Flanders. He was a prolific composer in many of the current styles, and ...

,"La belle marguerite, c'est une noble fleur prenez (malgré) qu'elle est petite elle est de grande valeur." Baisez moi by Josquin Desprez, Petite camusette, also attributed to Josquin Desprez, Mon coeur en vous (anonymous) and Au joly jeu du pousse avant by Clément Jannequin.

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