Few composers of the Renaissance were more popular in
their lifetimes than Janequin. His chansons were
well-loved and widely sung. The programmatic chansons
for which Janequin is famous were long, sectional
pieces, and usually cleverly imitated natural or
man-made sounds (La chasse, les cris de Paris, La
Bataille de Marignan). Le chant des oiseaux imitates
bird-calls. (from Wikipedia)