2 Anonymous Chansons Rustiques (1541)

for 3 voices or instruments.

These two chansons rustiques are printed after an anthology published in Venice by Antonio Gardane (originally Antoine Gardane), which should probably be in the Guinness Book of Records for the worlds most misleading title: Di Constantio Festa il Primo Libro de madrigali a tre voci, con la Gionta de Quaranta Madrigali di Jhan Gero, Novamente ristampato, & da molti errori emendato, Aggiuntovi similmente Trenta Canzoni Francese di Janequin. None of the chansons is by Janequin (many appear correctly attributed to different composers in other sources), and music genuinely by Festa is not a notable feature of the print either: nul points for integrity. It is possible that Gardane composed some of the pieces himself.
Whoever composed these pieces, they are lively numbers very much in the same tradition as Willaert´s three-part chansons (see LPM PC12), with their closely-spaced textures and rhythmic displacements.
The original note values have been halved throughout. A few editioral accidentals appear above the stave, applying to the one note only.

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