Baisez-moi explained

"Baisez-moi" (French: "Kiss me") is a renaissance French chanson for 4 voices, anonymous in publication by Pierre Attaignant but attributed to the composer Josquin Desprez. The song was the model for masses by Petrus Roselli^[1] and the Missa Baises-moy by Mathurin Forestier.^[2]

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 on the 1975 album The Kings Singers Concert Collection in a sequence of 5 chansons: La belle Margarite by Clemens non Papa,^[3] 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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Score

Notes and References

A Dictionary of music and musicians (A.D. 1450-1889)
Robert Wangermée - Flemish Music and Society in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 1968 p 92 "As early as 1549, certain finicky minds had caviled at the assigning to masses of titles such as A I'ombre d'un buyssonet (Brumel), L'Ami Baudichon (Josquin), Baisez-moi (Forestier), La belle se sied (Ghiselin), Faulte d 'argent (Mouton),"
"La belle marguerite, c'est une noble fleur prenez (malgré) qu'elle est petite elle est de grande valeur."