Vincentius [Vincent]  Misonne [Missonne] {Leo X-Clement VII}

Cambrai; earliest reference, bull of 7 August  1515 ; receipt lists of [ 1525 -26] and December  1526 ; supplication list of [ 1525 - 1526 ]; Roman census of [ 1526 - 1527 ] [ GNOLI , p. 439]; unpublished beneficial documents : LR 21, fol. 179r: entry dated 23 June  1520 , LR 23, fol. 91r: entry dated 21 March  1521 ; RL 1449, fols. 256v-257v: bull dated 28 July  1525 , RL 1476, fols. 50r-52r: bull dated 25 July  1526 , RAS Camerale I, 1109, fols. 325v-326v: bull dated 31 August  1526 ; see  FREY  for bulls dated 7 August  1515 , 3 March  1516 , 17 August  1516 ,19 April  1517 , 1 November  1517 , 1 June  1519 ;   died   in Cambrai on 5 April  1550 .

Misonne was closely associated with the Cathedral of Cambrai. He probably began his musical career there and returned there on the death of Leo X in  1521 , remaining until recalled to Rome by Clement VII in  1524 . However, Misonne's departure appears to have been delayed by an arrest for debts possibly incurred when he acted as procurator for the cathedral chapter in Rome, and the pope wrote to the chapter on 24 December  1524  demanding the singer's release. It is also possible and even likely that he is both the "Messer Vincentio Villano musico di cappella" who was paid 100 ducats in Cambrai sometime before July 1524 in order to bring four singers to Rome, and the "Vincentio cantore" who was paid 30 ducats in Rome on 25 April 1525 to defray the expenses of the return of those singers. In any case, Misonne had arrived in Rome by  1525  and stayed probably until just before the Sack of Rome in May  1527. In  1527  he was back in Cambrai where he basically spent the rest of his life. He was the composer of a few works (edited in JOSEPHSON).  

WORKS IN VATS MSS

Masses: Missa de Beata Virgine  (VatS 13);  Missa Gracieuse plaisant (VatS 26);  Missa Que nay je marion  (VatS 26)

Motets: Regina coeli  (VatS 26);  Salve Regina  (VatS 26)

EDITION: JOSEPHSON, Nors S. Early Sixteenth-Century Sacred Music from the Papal Chapel. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 95, vol. 2 (Neuhausen, 1982), pp. 1-102.

DOCUMENTS

ASV, Arm 39, vol. 44, fols. 934r-935r: breve dated 24 December  1524 .

Dilectis filiis decano et capitulo ecclesiae Cameracensis

Dilecte fili salutem etc. Cum nuper merito laetaremur audientes, dilectum filium Vincentium Misonnem capella nostrae cantorem collegam vestrum a nobis vocatum, et nobis eommendatum, eo consilia vestrum in Romana Curia procuratorem a vobis constitutus fuisse, ut tanquam pro tuum laborum et eiusdem procurationis mercede fructus suorum canonicatus et prebende in absentia sua, vestra ex benignitate perciperet; molestia quidem affecti fuimus paulo post audientes istum Vincentium iam ad iter se accingentem a suis creditoribus retentum et arrestatum fuisse, idque non antea accidisse, quam ipse Vincentius a nobis vocatus esset, atque ad nos pentenderet quare opera ipsius Vincentii pro ornamento capellae nostrae indigentis, ipsumque ob obsequia eius vetera in nos, et praedecessores nostros, atque ob excellentiam musicae scientiae, quae in ea nota est, peculiari beneviolentia prosequentes, vestram devotionem deperito commendantes, hortamur vos deinceps, ac percipimus vobis in virtute sanctae obedientiae, ut nostro et huius sanctae sedis intuitu curetis, atque agatis cum dictis creditoribus, de dominum Vincentium ad nos venientem, sedique apostolicae deserviturum, sua retardatione impediant. Nos enim ut hoc apud nos liberius curare illique nobis, et vobis morem gerere sine suo detrimento possint, tam in vita domini Vincentii, quam post mortem eius (quod absit) fructus, et proventus dictorum canonicatus et praebendae, in quod etiam ipsius Vincentii censum accedere curabatis, successoresque eius in dictis canonicatum et prebenda ipsis creditoribus quoad plene eis satisfactum sit, dummodo debita trecentos ducatos non transcendant, obligamus decernentes Vincentio. et post eius obitum sucessoribus eius predictis nullum ... esse fructus predictos ante staisfactionem creditorum predictorum percipiendi, sed vobis concedentes nonullos eisdem Vincentii et successoribus retinere, ac ipsis creditoribus usque ad satisfactionem prefatam soluere possitis ut valeatis constitutionibus et ordinationibus apostolicis, vestraeque ecclessiae statutis, et consuetudinibus caeterisque contrariis non obstantes quibuscunque. Itaque devotiones vestras paterniae charitatis stimulo, ac filialis obedientiae debito urgemus, ut plenum nobis vestri in haere [?] obsequiis effectum tributatis, nam in occasionibus honestis ubicunque nostra vobis gratificatio accommodaverit, nos huius vestrae obedientiae memores et gratos invenietis. Datum Romae etc. Die xxiiii Decembris  1524  Anno ii

Evangelista

BIBLIOGRAPHY: GNOLI, Domenico. "Descriptio urbis o censimento della populazione di Roma avanti il sacco Borbonico."  Archivio della R. Società Romana di Storia Patria  17 (1894): 375-520; FREY  (1955): 195-196; BRAGARD, Anne-Marie. "Détails Nouveaux sur les Musiciens de la Cour de Clément VII." Revue Belge de Musicologie 12 (1958): 5-18; WRIGHT, Craig. " Musiciens à la Cathédrale de Cambrai 1475- 1550."  Revue de Musicologie  62 (1976): 204-228; WRIGHT, Craig. "Performance Practices at the Cathedral of Cambrai 1475-1550."  The Musical Quarterly  64 (1978): 295-328; BRAGARD, Anne-Marie. "La vie musicale à la cour du pape Médicis Clément VII (1523-1534)." In GRACE, Michael, ed. A Festschrift for Albert Seay (Colorado Springs, 1982), pp. 45-70.

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