Guillaume Costeley (1531-1606) has in common with Clément Janequin (v.1485-1558), exception of three motets, to have provided only secular music. Musically, it is related to the style and research of his illustrious predecessor.
"Le jeu, le rire, le passetemps", published in 1570 in his collection Music is a typical example: short and imitation motifs that alternate with more homophonic passages, a use of chromaticism unheard of at the time as the interval do-sharp-bec from the measure 3 and especially a light text in the Rabelaisian tradition ... All the ingredients of the elegance and lyricism of the French song in the second half of the 16th century.
