Octonaire

Last updated April 28, 2019

The Octonaire is a genre of early French poem, then chanson, with the text divided into eight-verse sections, or octonaries, after the model of Psalm 118.

An octonary is an eight-line section in a poem, song or psalm. The most notable example is found in Psalm 119

Psalm 118 is the 118th psalm of the Book of Psalms, generally known in English by its first verse, in the King James Version, "O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever." The Book of Psalms is the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament. In the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and in its Latin translation in the Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 117 in a slightly different numbering system. In Latin, it is known as "Confitemini Domino quoniam bonus quoniam in saeculum misericordia eius". Its themes are thanksgiving to God and reliance on God rather than on human strength.

Three poets wrote Octonaires de la vanité et inconstance du monde. The best known was Antoine de la Roche Chandieu. Claude Le Jeune and Paschal de L'Estocart both wrote collections of moral chansons, Octonaires de la vanité et inconstance du monde, with 19 texts common to both collections.^[1]

Antoine de la Roche Chandieu was a French Reformed theologian, poet, diplomat and nobleman. His trend toward the Reformed Protestantism was strengthened during his study of law at Toulouse, and after a theological course at Geneva, he became the pastor of the Reformed congregation of Paris, 1556-62.

Claude Le Jeune was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was the primary representative of the musical movement known as musique mesurée, and a significant composer of the "Parisian" chanson, the predominant secular form in France in the latter half of the 16th century. His fame was widespread in Europe, and he ranks as one of the most influential composers of the time.

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References

↑ Mary Linda Doerfler Octonaires de la vanité et inconstance du monde set by Claude Le Jeune 1962 p60 INTRODUCTION Claude LeJeune and Paschal de L'Estocart each wrote a collection of short pieces entitled Octonaires de la vanite et inconstance du monde. Within these collections, the texts for 19 of the Octonaires are the same.

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[1] Mary Linda Doerfler Octonaires de la vanité et inconstance du monde set by Claude Le Jeune 1962 p60 INTRODUCTION Claude LeJeune and Paschal de L'Estocart each wrote a collection of short pieces entitled Octonaires de la vanite et inconstance du monde. Within these collections, the texts for 19 of the Octonaires are the same.