A bergerette, or shepherdess` air, is a form of early rustic French song. The bergerette, developed by Burgundian composers is a virelai with only is single stanza. It is one of the `fixed forms` of early French song and related to the rondeau. Examples include Josquin`s Bergerette savoyene included in Petrucci`s Odhecaton (1501). ...
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(from the article `virelai`) ...for the refrain; and it was usually even written in a different metre. The form thus allowed more musical variety than did the rondeau. These ...
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