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Vincenet, Johannes: 2 Songs

(La pena, Tristo che spero morendo) for 4 voices or instruments.

The composer Vincenet is a mysterious figure, so much so that he may in fact be two mysterious figures. A musician by this name was a singer in the Papal Chapel together with Dufay in 1426, but a document from Naples of more than fifty years later (1479) refers to a recently deceased composer of the same name. The two references may well be to the same musician: if so, he must have kept up with musical trends, for the two pieces here are rather more modern in style than any music by Dufay. It is perhaps more likely that there were two Vincenets, possibly father and son. In any case, all four secular works attributed to Vincenet, including those printed here, survive in the so-called Mellon Chansonnier, which was compiled in Naples in the 1470s.
La pena is a relatively early example of a villancico, and therefore ends with the first section. Triste que spero morendo would appear to be a rondeau with incomplete text, and certainly needs to finish at the end as notated. In this edition the original note values have been halved. Editorial accidentals are shown in the usual way, that is printed small above the stave. Both pieces are printed here after the Mellon Chansonnier (Yale University Library). In bar 17 of Le pena the first two quavers are one note higher in the original.