masses, three motets and six chansons have survived, and also one mass which has an uncertain attribution to him. Stylistically Basiron's music resembles that of Ockeghem, and is innovative in several ways. He used sequential repetition, and was perhaps the first composer to write a piece in which imitation was the main structural device from beginning to end (the Regina celi). He also was capable of creating long movements by juxtaposing sections of varying texture, but without disunity; his Messa de Franza is the most famous example. Ercole I d'Este, duke of Ferrara, heard of Basiron's fame, and asked that his Missa l'homme armé be sent to him. Eloy d'Amerval mentioned Basiron in 1508 as among the "20 great composers of the 15th century"; both Pierre Moulu and theorist Gaffurius praised him highly; and most famously, poet Guillaume Crétin, in his Déploration sur le trépas de Jean Ockeghem, listed Basiron among the sweetly singing angels in heaven welcoming Ockeghem to join them. Works Masses Missa de Franza (4vv); Missa l'homme armé (mentioned as a new composition on 24 March 1484, in Ferrara) (4vv); Missa Regina caeli (4vv); Missa tetradi pladis (lost; described by Franchinus Gaffurius) (voicing unknown) Mass (attributed) Missa D'ung aultre amer (4vv) Motets Inviolata integra et casta (4vv); Regina celi (4vv); Salve regina (4vv) (also, erroneously, attributed to Johannes Ockeghem). Chansons De m'esjouir plus n'ay puissance (3vv) (Rondeau); D’ung aultre amer I (4vv) (uses "L'homme armé" in the tenor); D’ung aultre amer II (4vv); Je le sçay bien (3vv) (Rondeau); Nul ne l'a tele (3vv) (Bergerette, based on "Je ne viz onques la pareille" by Guillaume Dufay, Gilles Binchois, or Antoine Busnois); Tant fort me tarde (3vv) (Rondeau). Recording 1996 - Oh Flanders Free. Music of the Flemish Renaissance: Ockeghem, Josquin, Susato, De la Rue. Capilla Flamenca. Alamire LUB 03, Naxos 8.554516. References Jeffrey Dean: "Philippe Basiron", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed September 13, 2005), (subscription access) Martin Picker, "Philippe Basiron," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. External links 1449 births 1491 deaths French classical composers French male classical composers Renaissance composers 15th-century French people