Clment Janequin - Voulez ouyr les cris de Paris

*Sounds a perfect fourth lower than score* Voulez ouyr les cris de Paris Composer: Clément Janequin (ca. 1485 - 1558) Performers: Ensemble Clément Janequin, dir. Dominique Visse Score editor: Vincent Carpentier _________________________________________________________________ “Clément Janequin (c. 1485 – 1558) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most famous composers of popular chansons of the entire Renaissance, and along with Claudin de Sermisy, was hugely influential in the development of the Parisian chanson, especially the programmatic type. The wide spread of his fame was made possible by the concurrent development of music printing. Few composers of the Renaissance were more popular in their lifetimes than Janequin. His chansons were well-loved and widely sung. The Paris printer Pierre Attaingnant printed five volumes with his chansons. La bataille, which vividly depicts the sounds and activity of a battle, is a perennial fav