Weerbecke, Gaspar van: 2 Instrumental Pieces

for 3 instruments.

Gaspar van Weerbecke (c. 1445-1517) was one of many musicians from the Low Countries who spent their working lives in Italy. Weerbecke was associated particularly, with the Sforza court in Milan, but he also had periods working in Florence and Rome.
The two pieces printed here were included, without any composer´s names, in Petrucci´s Odhecaton (Venice, 1501). In fact the question of authorship is problematic in both cases. La Stangett appears in one source (Zwickau, Ratsschulbibliothek) ascribed to Obrecht, a quite credible attribution. O Venus bant survives in St. Gallen 463 attributed to Josquin; the attribution to Gaspar is from the Seville Chansonnier. It seems quite unlikely to me that Josquin could have composed this piece: its modal character is different from any piece definitely by Josquin, and the dissonance treatment in the last four bars is a little unorthodox. It is of course possible that neither musician composed the piece, though a mass on it by Weerbecke has survived.
La Stangetta appears in one source (Bologna Q1 6) with a chanson text incipit (“Ce nest pas”). However, it is hard to imagine text fitting this piece at all well, especially in the second section. The piece makes more sense as part of that small group of purely instrumental numbers written by northern composers working in Italy (Ghiselin´s La Alfonsina, Josquin´s La Bernardina, Martini´s La Martinella etc.).
O Venus bant is one of ten different surviving settings of this Dutch melody, including two by Agricola (see EML 204), Isaac (AN12) and others.
This edition follows Petrucci throughout. The original note values have been halved. Editorial accidentals are shown in the usual way, printed small above the stave, applying to the one note only. The text underlaid in the tenor of O Venus bant is after Duyse, Het oude nederlandsche lied (The Hague, 1903), where additional verses may be found.
In performance I would suggest a tempo for both pieces that is brisk enough to allow the cross-rhythms to speak, perhaps semibreve (whole note) = 60-66.

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