Fleuster une chanson – Song & Dance in Attaingnant's Prints

At the Burgundian court of the fifteenth century, it was already customary to render chansons – music conceived for the voice – on the recorder. When the Parisian printer Pierre Attaingnant published his 27 Chansons musicales à quatre parties in 1533, he both preserved and refined this practice, singling out certain pieces as especially suited to transverse flutes, others to recorders.

In April 2021, a consort of transverse flutes presented the first half of this collection at ReRenaissance, with the tacit promise that a recorder consort would one day complete the arc. Now, five years later, that promise is fulfilled, though not without expansion: alongside vocal and instrumental chansons, the art of dance also claims center stage.

Attaingnant’s prints, as well as those of his widow Marie Lescaloppier, abound in bransles, pavanes, galliards, basse danses, and tourdions – each with its own distinct temperament. From this abundance emerges a miniature theatrical universe in which prince and peasant, fool and doctor, knight and shepherd make their appearances. Newly devised choreographies, drawing on the movement language of sixteenth-century France, set the music quite literally in motion.

Hubert Hazebroucq – dance
Emma-Lisa Roux – lute, voice
Marc Pauchard – recorder
Mirko Schacht – recorder
Siri Löffel – recorder
Tabea Schwartz – recorder; direction

Free entry – Collection

Saturday, 30 May 2026, 18:15
Klosterkirche Dornach, Amthausstrasse 7, 4143 Dornach

Sunday, 31 May 2026, 18:15
Barfüsserkirche, Historisches Museum Basel