Pont Jacques du, Ponte Jachet, Giaches, de, *ca. 1510, † after 1546, French composer. From 1527, he remained in the service of Cardinal G. Salviati, the papal legate in France. In 1530, he accompanied him to Rome, where, between 1536 and 1538, he also served as maestro di cappella at the church of S. Luigi dei Francesi and probably sang for some time in the papal chapel and the Cappella Giulia. Ponta’s most original achievement is his repeatedly republished arrangement of P. Bembo’s poem Ne l’odorat’et lucid’oriente, which bears traces of a cyclical concept. Ponta’s motets are in the style of Dutch polyphony, and his madrigals belong to the “a note nere” type.
Literature: A. Cametti Jacques du Pont e la sua “Canzon di cald’arost”, “Rivista Italiana di Musicologia” XXIII, 1916.
Compositions:
sacred:
3 motets (for 4, 5, and 8 voices)
secular:
Cinquanta stanze del Bembo, 49 works for 4 voices and one for 8 voices, published in Venice 1545, 5th edition 1567
In collective prints from 1539–49:
3 madrigals for 4 voices
3 chansons for 4 voices
Editions:
Cinquanta stanze, 2 vols., ed. L. Bianchi and E. Piattelli, «Musica Rinascimentale in Italia» VII, Rome 1981–82
2 motets in The Gardane Motet Anthologies (for 4 voices, in three movements) and The Buglhat Motet Anthologies (for 5 voices, in 2 movements), ed. M.S. Lewis, «Sixteenth-Century Motet» XIII and XIV, New York 1993 and 1995
madrigals in The Anthologies of Black-note Madrigals, ed. D. Harran, «Sixteenth-Century Motet» LXXIII/1b, 2, 4, 1978, 1978, 1980
