Surname
Prato (de)
Given Name
Johannes
Variant Name
Stockhem
Date of death
after 1487-11-2-1487-11-3
Role
Composer
Employee of a court chapel (musician)
Musician
Active period
1455 - 1487
Workplace
Liège
Biography
NGD (P. Starr), MGG (P. Vendrix)
• Duodenus à Saint-Lambert de Liège à partir de 1455 et duodenus mutatus de 1471 à 1474, il obtint en 1478 un canonicat dit “de la petite table”, vacant par le décès d’Henri de Prato, peut-être un parent. Vers 1481, il devint magister capelle du roi de Hongrie Mathias Corvin. Il quitte la chapelle de Hongrie en 1486, pour passer deux mois à la SS Annunziata de Florence, avant d’entrer dans la chapelle pontificale en septembre de 1486, où il est rémunéré jusqu’en septembre 1487, désigné tantôt comme 'Johannes Stokem' (with spelling variants) et comme 'Johannes de Pratis'. Il meurt peu avant le 3 octobre 1487.
• La seule source du De inventione de Tinctoris, imprimé partiel, s’accompagne d’un extrait d’une lettre à Stokem (Joannes Tinctoris Brabantinus: Joanni Stokem viro bene morato: Salutem plurimam dicit. etc). Woodley résume: The complete version of De inventione, in five books of perhaps some 100 chapters, has not survived, but calTinctoris lui adr leculations suggest that its size was roughly comparable with the rest of Tinctoris's theoretical work put together, and there is some evidence that the Valencia manuscript may have been one of a pair, the other (lost) volume containing this treatise intact (Woodley 1985). What has survived is a single copy of a print (Weinmann 1961), made probably by Mathias Moravus in Naples around 1481–83, containing extracts from the work, prefaced by a printed letter from Tinctoris to the singer and composer Johannes Stokem in Buda, in which he transmits his good wishes to Beatrice, by then Queen of Hungary. A brief passage after this letter, probably written by the printer himself or an informed editor, tells us that Tinctoris had dedicated the full treatise to his (recently?) deceased father, Martin. These printed extracts cover a range of material – more anecdotal than pedagogical or strictly 'theoretical' – focusing principally on ancient and contemporary instrumental and vocal practice. A number of renowned singers known to Tinctoris are named, with their voice functions: the Cypriot but Brabant-educated Philippus de Passagio (Philippe du Passaige), tenorista bassus; Wassettus of Cambrai (Guillaume Wasset), tenorista altus; Joannes Okeghem, contratenorista bassus; the Fleming Jacobus Teunis, contratenorista altus; and Joannes de Lotinis of Dinant, soprano (the dedicatee of the Expositio manus). Other discussion includes coverage of various wind instruments (with a number of sub-species such as the tibia, celimela, dulcina, bombarda and sackbut), and stringed instruments (lute, lyra, viola, rebec, ghiterra, cetula and tambura), in which details of stringing, tuning, bowing and finger/plectrum technique are analysed (Baines 1950). It is clear, however, that lost portions of the treatise also contained further coverage of some of these areas. Noted instrumentalists named are Godefridus Germanus, tibicen to the Emperor Frederick; Petrus Bonus (Pietrobono), lutenist to Ercole d'Este of Ferrara; Henricus, lutenist to Charles, Duke of Burgundy; and the Flemish brothers Carolus and Johannes Orbus, exponents of the bowed viola (vihuela). In an earlier passage, Tinctoris recounts with astonishment how he heard the musician Gerard of Brabant, aulicus to the Duke of Bourbon, singing and whistling simultaneously two parts of the song Tout a par moy outside Chartres Cathedral (Weinmann 1961: 34).
It seems likely that the complete version of De inventione was circulating in northern Europe in the late fifteenth century as well as the printed extracts, since an epitomized selection of other, otherwise unknown chapters survive in Cambrai, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS A16, fols. 8v–12v (Woodley 1985). This selection includes the enlarged Complexus in abridged form, and its accurate retention of book and chapter identification enables the scope of the original treatise to be roughly computed.
ANALECTES
1478
4 novembre. J. de Prato, alias de Stockem, recteur des autels de Saint-Georges et de Sainte-Aldegonde dans la chapelle supérieure de Saint-Lambert, près de la chapelle de Notre-Dame de Lyenche, résigne son bénéfice.
1481
4 juillet. Collation de la prébende de J. de Stockem, chanoine de la petite table, à J. Lathomi.
• Duodenus à Saint-Lambert de Liège à partir de 1455 et duodenus mutatus de 1471 à 1474, il obtint en 1478 un canonicat dit “de la petite table”, vacant par le décès d’Henri de Prato, peut-être un parent. Vers 1481, il devint magister capelle du roi de Hongrie Mathias Corvin. Il quitte la chapelle de Hongrie en 1486, pour passer deux mois à la SS Annunziata de Florence, avant d’entrer dans la chapelle pontificale en septembre de 1486, où il est rémunéré jusqu’en septembre 1487, désigné tantôt comme 'Johannes Stokem' (with spelling variants) et comme 'Johannes de Pratis'. Il meurt peu avant le 3 octobre 1487.
• La seule source du De inventione de Tinctoris, imprimé partiel, s’accompagne d’un extrait d’une lettre à Stokem (Joannes Tinctoris Brabantinus: Joanni Stokem viro bene morato: Salutem plurimam dicit. etc). Woodley résume: The complete version of De inventione, in five books of perhaps some 100 chapters, has not survived, but calTinctoris lui adr leculations suggest that its size was roughly comparable with the rest of Tinctoris's theoretical work put together, and there is some evidence that the Valencia manuscript may have been one of a pair, the other (lost) volume containing this treatise intact (Woodley 1985). What has survived is a single copy of a print (Weinmann 1961), made probably by Mathias Moravus in Naples around 1481–83, containing extracts from the work, prefaced by a printed letter from Tinctoris to the singer and composer Johannes Stokem in Buda, in which he transmits his good wishes to Beatrice, by then Queen of Hungary. A brief passage after this letter, probably written by the printer himself or an informed editor, tells us that Tinctoris had dedicated the full treatise to his (recently?) deceased father, Martin. These printed extracts cover a range of material – more anecdotal than pedagogical or strictly 'theoretical' – focusing principally on ancient and contemporary instrumental and vocal practice. A number of renowned singers known to Tinctoris are named, with their voice functions: the Cypriot but Brabant-educated Philippus de Passagio (Philippe du Passaige), tenorista bassus; Wassettus of Cambrai (Guillaume Wasset), tenorista altus; Joannes Okeghem, contratenorista bassus; the Fleming Jacobus Teunis, contratenorista altus; and Joannes de Lotinis of Dinant, soprano (the dedicatee of the Expositio manus). Other discussion includes coverage of various wind instruments (with a number of sub-species such as the tibia, celimela, dulcina, bombarda and sackbut), and stringed instruments (lute, lyra, viola, rebec, ghiterra, cetula and tambura), in which details of stringing, tuning, bowing and finger/plectrum technique are analysed (Baines 1950). It is clear, however, that lost portions of the treatise also contained further coverage of some of these areas. Noted instrumentalists named are Godefridus Germanus, tibicen to the Emperor Frederick; Petrus Bonus (Pietrobono), lutenist to Ercole d'Este of Ferrara; Henricus, lutenist to Charles, Duke of Burgundy; and the Flemish brothers Carolus and Johannes Orbus, exponents of the bowed viola (vihuela). In an earlier passage, Tinctoris recounts with astonishment how he heard the musician Gerard of Brabant, aulicus to the Duke of Bourbon, singing and whistling simultaneously two parts of the song Tout a par moy outside Chartres Cathedral (Weinmann 1961: 34).
It seems likely that the complete version of De inventione was circulating in northern Europe in the late fifteenth century as well as the printed extracts, since an epitomized selection of other, otherwise unknown chapters survive in Cambrai, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS A16, fols. 8v–12v (Woodley 1985). This selection includes the enlarged Complexus in abridged form, and its accurate retention of book and chapter identification enables the scope of the original treatise to be roughly computed.
ANALECTES
1478
4 novembre. J. de Prato, alias de Stockem, recteur des autels de Saint-Georges et de Sainte-Aldegonde dans la chapelle supérieure de Saint-Lambert, près de la chapelle de Notre-Dame de Lyenche, résigne son bénéfice.
1481
4 juillet. Collation de la prébende de J. de Stockem, chanoine de la petite table, à J. Lathomi.