- Fors seulement
Fors seulement is a French chanson, popular as a basis for variations and as a a
cantus firmus . An early version is attributed toOckeghem - (this 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 " from Ockeghem's 'Fors seulement l'attente' for the baritoneA web source [http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=787] gives following text:Fors seulement latente que le meure,:En mon las cueur, nul espoir ne dmeure,:Car mon las cueur si fort me tourmente :Qui n'est douleur que par vous je ne sente,:Pourceque suis de vous perdre bien seure.
:(Except in waiting for death:There dwells in my faint heart no hope...)
A full translation to a slightly different version of the French text is to be found in Appendix A of George H Black's DMA thesis (2003, Louisiana State Univ.) here [http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-0828103-132935/unrestricted/Black_Jr_dis.pdf]
Many versions of the chanson were produced including those by
Ockeghem ,Josquin ,Pipelare ,Vervonet , Obrecht,Pirson , Brumel and Agricola.Mass settings include those by Ockeghem, Obrecht. Pipelare,
Gombert and Carpentras (see Black's thesis, loc. cit.)
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