This is an overview of all known French Chansons from the Renaissance that have been intavolated for lute, from the songs of Ockeghem or Ghizeghem in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to composers at the end of the sixteenth century when a new genre, the Air de Cour, made its appearance. Airs de Cour are in not included in this index, except for the ones from the first lute edition with Airs de Cour by Adrian Le Roy (Le Roy, Livre d’Airs de Cour miz sur le Luth, 1571[1]). Intavolations of psalms on a French text are also not included. Some French Chansons live on in Dutch or German titles, such as Thysius (Pour ung plaisir qui si peu dure/Schoon lief ghij sijt prijs waert alleyne) or Neusidler (“Qui belles amours/Ach unfal wes zeigstu mich”).
The works are arranged alphabetically according to their standardized title.
[1] The same pieces are repeated in the third book of Le Roy’s “A briefe and plaine instruction” from 1574, “conteinyng diverse Psalmes and many fine excellente Tunes, sette for the by A.R.the aucthour thereof”. Some pages in Le Roy 1571 are missing from the microfilm.