De tous biens plaine

This edition brings together for the first time the complete set of twenty-eight settings based on Hayne van Ghizeghem’s “De tous biens plaine,” one of the most famous chansons of the later fifteenth century. Hayne’s original song circulated in at least twenty-six notated sources and was expanded to four voices by the addition of si placet altus parts on at least two occasions. A few of the settings preserve the discant-tenor framework of the original, adding one or more substitute contratenor parts to enhance and enliven the texture. More often, however, the arrangements of Hayne’s rondeau quatrain adopt a cantus prius factus from the original, around which they construct new—and often quite animated—polyphony. Like the families of settings of “D’ung aultre amer,” “J’ay pris amours,” and “Fors seulement,” the arrangements of Hayne’s song have long been recognized as a particularly important reference point for late-fifteenth-century musical culture.

1.  De tous biens plaine (a 3), [Hayne van Ghizeghem]

2.  De tous biens playne (a 4), Anonymous

3.  [De tous biens plaine] (a 4), Anonymous     

4.  De tous biens playne (a 3), Anonymous     

5.  De tous biens plaine (a 3), Anonymous

6.  De tous biens (a 3), Anonymous

7.  De tous bien (a 4), de Planquard

8.  [De tous biens plaine] (a 4), [Josquin des Prez]

9.  De tobiens plena (a 3), Anonymous

10.  De tous biens (a 3), Josquin [des Prez]

11.  De tous biens (a 3), [Johannes] Ghiselin [dit Verbonnet]

12.  De tous biens playne (a 4), Anonymous

13.  [De tous biens plaine] (a 3), Anonymous

14.  De tous biens (a 4), Anonymous

15.  [De tous biens plaine] (a 3), Anonymous

16.  De tobiens plaine e ma maetressa (a 3), Anonymous

17a.  De tous biens (a 4), [Alexander] Agricola

17b.  [De tous biens plaine] (a 3), [Alexander Agricola?]

18.  De tous biens (a 3), Anonymous

19.  De tous biens (a 3), Bourdon/[Alexander Agricola]

20.  De tous biens playne (a 3), Alexander Agricola

21.  De tous biens playne (a 3), Alexander Agricola

22.  De tous biens playne (a 3), Allexander [Agricola]

23.  De tous biens playne (a 3), Allexander [Agricola]

24.  De tous biens (a 3), Bactio [Bartolomeo degli Organi]

25.  De to biens playne (a 3), Anonymous

26.  De tous bien plen (a 4), Anonymous

27.  De tous biens (a 4), Jo[hannes] Japart

28.  De tous biens plaine (a 4), D'Oude Schuere