Connor Burrowes, John Scott & David Miller - Blest be those sweet regions

BAIF (Baif) Jean Antoine de [19 II 1532, Venice - 19 IX (X?) 1589, Paris] - French. poet, lute player, composer. Member of the "Pleiades" - a creative community of French. humanist poets. B. sought to revive the ancient forms of art, which would merge dance, poetry, music, drama. Tried to enter into the French. versification quantitative rhythmics, i. e. , the construction of verses according to the rules of the antique, pers. and arab. poetry - on the ordered distribution of syllabic durations. B. 's experiments were important not only for the development of the French. versification, but also for the evolution of some muses. forms. They wrote music to B. 's verses. his contemporaries are T. de Courville, C. Le Gen, and especially J. Moduy. B. - author of plays for the lute, 12 spiritual songs (1562), 2 collection. four-voice secular songs (1578, 1580). Op. these are not preserved. In 1570, B. The Academy of Poetry and Music (Academie de Poesie et de Musik), which lasted until 1584.