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Di Scadre (Monseigneur?) (c. 1515 – after 1599) was a Franco-/Italian composer working in the Perinaldo-Nice region during the Renaissance. His sole known major work, a collection of sacred and profane motets (and loose-leaf compositions both choral and instrumental) called “Tre Meridiani” (“Three Meridians”) exists in a single extant copy purchased in the Nice brocante in 2011. It remains in private hands, and has been released piece by piece to conductors and performers for transcription and performance purposes.

Life
Di Scadre lived in the south of France and Liguria, holding church prebends in both Nice (what would become Ste Réparate cathedral) and Perinaldo. A portrait of the composer refers to a 1534 period of exile to western Brittany, where the portrait was found near Quimper.

Tre Meridiani
Di Scadre’s 1599 “Tre Meridiani” was printed in 1599 by Guichard Jullieron and Thibaud Ancelin in Lyons. It is a collection of several dozen compositions, "songs passably useful in the Divine Office and for minor comfort to the soul" ("chantz passablemens utilisables dans l’Office Diuin & pour confort mineur a l’asme", according to the Preface), motets most often sacred (Quand’ io son tutto volto in quella parte—a reading of Petrarch’s Sonnet XVIII—and Je meurs de soif—from a Villon ballade—appearing to be the only exceptions). A 2011 Paris recording of motets Qui quaeritis viventem, Sed hoc erit pactum quod feriam, and Tu autem, as well as a six-voice Gloria demonstrate homophony of eloquent simplicity, contrasted with occasional simple polyphony (see ) and a novel use of canon forms.