ABSTRACT
Ockeghem and the Motet-chanson in fifteenth-century France 383 J osquin, of course, picked up the gauntlet, taking Molinet' s Nymphes des
12 Modern editions for this and other motet-chansons cited are given in Appendix I. I 3 Leeman L. PERKINS, 'Motet II,' The New Grove ... , op. cit., XII, p. 6 3 I. 14 David FALLOWS, 'Motet-chanson,' The New Grove ... , op. cit., XII, p. 647. 15 For an overview of definitions of song motet, see H. MECONI, 'Sacred Tricinia and
Basevi 2439', I Tatti Studies: Essays in the Renaissance, 4 (1991), pp. 165-7. 16 Quodlibets are excluded from the following discussion. For a survey of the various def-
initions given for "motet-chanson" and attempts to confine the term to pieces with specific numbers of voices, see H. MECONI, Nymphes des bois ... , op. cit.
