Dalla Casa: Canzoni da sonar con la viola bastarda

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Canzoni da sonar con la viola bastarda by Girolamo Dalla Casa contains viola bastarda settings of well-known chansons, including Douce memoire and Ung gay bergier.

With the exception of Petit Jacquet, which is not quite what it seems, the models for Dalla Casa’s settings here are all more or less well-known chansons from the first half of the sixteenth century. Crecquillon’s Ung gay bergier, which originally appeared in 1543, had, for reasons that are a little obscure to me, the status of a classic.  It turns up in two other diminution books, Bassano’s Moteti Madrigali et Canzoni (1591) and Richardo Rogniono’s Passaggi per potersi essercitare, there are keyboard settings by Bernhard Schmid (1577), Cabezon (1578), Bertoldo (1591), Andrea Gabrieli (Canzoni alla francese, Libro sesto, (1605)” and Samuel Mareschall, and there are too many lute settings to mention?

Related: Three Chansons of the mid 16th century (REP6a ↣)