found: Grove music online, viewed, Aug. 12, 2015under Bergerette (i) ((1) A kind of song in the 15th century, first found in a text manuscript (GB-Lbl Add.15224 (c1430)), which gives the heading 'Bergerete chantee' to 13 poems with no apparent common features; the heading 'Bergerette' appears in another manuscript (F-Pn fr.2230 and fr.19182) for virelais. Descriptions of the term in several literary treatises of the 15th century show no clear consistency of meaning. (2) In common parlance the word is often used to denote a virelai setting from the second half of the 15th century, in the erroneous belief that its single-stanza form is not found among virelais of the 14th century. In this sense it is treated as a forme fixe (see Formes fixes); and the word appears to lie at the root of the Italian word Barzelletta, which does (in music) denote a forme fixe.) under Bergerette (ii) (In the 18th century the word, alongside 'bergerie', is given to folksong-like airs of a pastoral and amorous nature.) under Bergerette (iii) (A shepherd-dance, the title given to four dances in Susato's Het derde musyck boexken(Antwerp, 1551); that three of them are in triple time but the other in duple, and that their formal designs have nothing in common, suggests that the title is just a broad characterization.)
