A "new" motet by Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599): In passione positus (SSATB) [Santiago Codex]

The Santiago Codex of Valladolid is one of the most significant manuscript sources of Renaissance Spanish music in the beginning of the 17th century. Preserved in the Parroquia de Santiago in Valladolid (Spain), it was copied by Diego Sánchez and other unknown copyists. It contains seventy-five works, including three Masses, one Requiem Mass and sixty-three motets: some of them are unique, as they are only found in this manuscript or have some important differences with the other known sources. The significance of the Santiago Codex also lies in its composers: we can find unique works by Cristóbal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero, Juan Navarro and Francisco Guerrero among others.

In passione positus is a five-voice motet by the Spanish composer Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599). It is completely different from the homonym work that Guerrero published in his first printed collection, the Sacrae cantiones (1555). Some small passages and notes have been reconstructed due to the damage in some parts of the folios.

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The Santiago Codex of Valladolid

Masses and motets by Cristóbal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero, Juan Navarro and others

Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599)	In passione positus	SSATB	Buy
Cristóbal de Morales (c. 1500-1553)	Hoc est praeceptum meum	SSATB	Buy

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Alonso de Tejeda (c. 1540-1628): Cum sublevasset (SSATB)

A beautiful motet for the fourth Sunday of Lent (with a canon at the third in the two Cantus) from the Liber secundus sacrarum cantionum by the Spanish composer Alonso de Tejeda (c. 1540-1628).

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Maistre Jhan (c. 1485-1538): Vox de caelis (TTTB) [Rusconi Codex]

The so-called Rusconi Codex (I-Bc Q.19), now kept in the Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna, probably copied c. 1518 for the Cathedral of Padua, contains 95 works, mostly motets and a few masses (some of them unica) and, according to Robert Nosow, was copied by one of its most represented composers, a certain Renaldo (probably Petrus de Renaldis, died in 1521). It is one of the most important music manuscripts in northern Italy in the first third of the 16th century. 

We are publishing a selection of over 60 works by Italian and French composers such as Jean Mouton, Renaldo, Jacquet de Mantua, Costanzo Festa, Lupus, Pierre Moulu, Maistre Jhan and others.

Vox de caelis is four-voice motet by the French composer Maistre Jhan (c. 1485-1538). It is scored for four male voices (TTTB) and dedicated to St. Catherine.

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Music from the Rusconi Codex (I-Bc Q.19)

Sebastiano Festa (c. 1490/5-1524)	Angele Dei	SSTB	Buy
Jean Mouton (c. 1459-1522)	Moriens lux amantissima	SATTB	Buy
Renaldo (Petrus de Renaldis, †1521?)	Paradisi portas	SATB	Buy
Hotinet Barra (fl. 1510-1523)	Peccantem me quotidie	SATB	Buy
Jacquet de Mantua (c. 1483-1559)	Noe, noe, hodie Salvator	SATB	Buy
Jacquet de Mantua (c. 1483-1559)	O vos qui transitis	SATB	Buy
Jacquet de Mantua (c. 1483-1559)	Veni Sancte Spiritus	SATB	Buy
Jean Mouton (c. 1459-1522)	Salva nos Domine	SAATTB	Buy
Renaldo (Petrus de Renaldis, †1521?)	Illuminavit eum Dominus	SATB	Buy
Renaldo (Petrus de Renaldis, †1521?)	Haec dies	SATB	Buy
Jacquet de Mantua (c. 1483-1559)	Ecclesiam tuam	SATB	Buy
Maistre Jhan (c. 1485-1538)	Vox de caelis	TTTB	Buy

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Francesco Portinaro (c. 1520 - c. 1577): Da pacem Domine (SATTB) [Primi frutti de motetti, 1548]

Primi frutti de motetti a cinque voci (Venice, 1548) was the first collection of motets by the Italian composer Francesco Portinaro (c. 1520-c. 1577). Born in Padua, Portinaro worked for important institutions such as the Accademia dei Costanti of Vicenza, the Accademia degli Elevati of Padua or the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona. According to Maria Archetto "Portinaro's clearly constructed, fluid and reserved polyphonic style was praised during his lifetime". 

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Francesco Portinaro (c. 1520 - c. 1577)

Primi frutti de motetti a cinque voci (Venice, 1548)

19 motets for 5vv, 6vv and 7vv

Tribularer si nescirem	SATTB	Buy
Absterget Deus	SATTB	Buy
Preparate corda vestra	SATTB	Buy
Sancta et immaculata	SATTB	Buy
Peccavi super numerum	SATTB	Buy
Principes persecuti sunt	SATTB	Buy
Da pacem Domine	SATTB	Buy
Impetum inimicorum	SATTB	Soon
Domine, quis habitabit	SATTB	Soon
Regina caeli	SATTB	Soon
Vidi speciosam	SAATB	Soon
Aspice Domine	SATBB	Soon
Iste est Johannes	SATTB	Soon
Sicut cedrus	SATBB	Soon
Deus misereatur nostri	SSATTB	Soon
Gaudent in caelis	SATTB	Soon
Quanti mercenarii	SATTBB	Soon
Puer natus est nobis	SATTBB	Soon
Regina caeli	SAATTBB	Soon

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Philippe Verdelot (c. 1480-c. 1530): Beata es virgo Maria (SSATTBB) [I-VEaf 218]

We are glad to announce the forthcoming publication of the complete edition of the I-VEaf 218, a manuscript collection of extraordinary Masses and motets from seven to ten voices, copied around 1534.

Preserved in the Biblioteca dell'Accademia Filarmonica di Verona, I-VEaf 218 contains 24 motets and two masses for seven to ten voices. Additionally, there is a set of double-choir psalms by a second copyist that will be published in a future complete edition of another Italian source. 

Some of the motets and the seven-voice Mass show a connection with Giulio Medici, the Pope Clement VII: that is the case of the Missa tu es pastor ovium by Andreas de Silva (b. c. 1475-1480), Tempus faciendi by Jean Conseil (1489 or 1501-1534) or Vidit Dominus by the otherwise unknown Carlay. 

The works are surprising in scale and uniqueness. Though some pieces from I-VEaf 218 were republished in a printed collection a few decades later (the Thesaurus musicus continens selectissimas octo, septem... in 1564), an important group of motets are unica, including the nine-voice Locutus est Dominus by Jean Lhéritier (c. 1480-1551), the rework for eight voices of Josquin's Ave Maria virgo serena, the outstanding nine-voice Caelorum decus attributed by some to Heinrich Isaac, and the final masterpiece of the collection, the ten-voice Regina caeli by Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495-c. 1560). Some motets are also contrafacta, such as Tu sola es virgo and Sustinuimus pacem by Gombert.

The seven-voice Beata es virgo Maria is among the most beautiful motets by Philippe Verdelot (c. 1480-c. 1530). One of the earliest sources where this masterpiece can be found is the I-VEaf 218. The Cantus 2 sings a cantus firmus taken from Josquin's famous motet Ave Maria... Virgo serena.

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A Musical Treasure for a Medici Pope (I-VEaf 218)

A collection of Masses & Motets for 7vv, 8vv, 9vv and 10vv

Andreas de Silva (b. c. 1475-1480)	Missa Tu es pastor ovium	SSATTBB	Buy
Pierre Moulu (c. 1484-c. 1550)	Salve regina Barbara	SSATTBB	Buy
Jean Conseil (1489 or 1501-1534)	Tempus faciendi	STTTTBB	Buy
Philippe Verdelot (c. 1480-c. 1530)	Beata es virgo Maria	SSATTBB	Buy
Philip Van Wilder (c. 1500-1554)	Homo quidam fecit	SAATTBB	Soon
Carlay	Vidit Dominus	SAAATTB	Soon
Philippe Verdelot (c. 1480-c. 1530)	Gaudent in caelis	SSAATTBB	Soon
Anonymous	Canite tuba	SSAATTBB	Soon
Josquin Desprez? (c. 1450/5-1521)	Ave Maria	SSAATTBB	Soon
Anonymous	Ave virgo virginum	SSAATTBB	Soon
Jean Mouton (c. 1459-1522)	Fulgebunt justi	SSAATTBB	Soon
Jean Mouton (c. 1459-1522)	Verbum bonum	SSAATTBB	Soon
Jacquet de Mantua (c. 1483-1559)	Sancta Trinitas	SSAATTBB	Soon
Philippe Verdelot? (c. 1480-c. 1530)	Inviolata	SSAATTBB	Soon
Anonymous	Exortum in tenebris	SAATTTTB	Soon
Jean Mouton (c. 1459-1522)	Nesciens mater	SSAAATBB	Soon
Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495-c. 1560)	Tu sola es virgo	SSAATTBB	Soon
Jean Lhéritier (c. 1480-1551)	Locutus est Dominus	SSAATTBBB	Soon
Heinrich Isaac? (c. 1445-1517)	Caelorum decus	SSTTTTTBB	Soon
Philippe Verdelot (c. 1480-c. 1530)	Laudate Dominum	SAAAATTTB	Soon
Passet	Nigra sum	SSAATTBB	Soon
Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495-c. 1560)	Sustinuimus pacem	SSAATTBB	Soon
Nicolle des Celliers de Hesdin (†1538)	Laetabundus exultet	SSAATTBB	Soon
Claudin de Sermisy (c. 1490-1562)	Inclina Domine	SATB+SATB	Soon
Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495-c. 1560)	Regina caeli	SSAATTTTBB	Soon
Ruffino Bartolucci da Assisi (1475?-1541)	Missa Verbum bonum	SATB+SATB	Soon

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Johannes Mangon (c. 1525-1578): Emendemus in melius (SATB)

Johannes Mangon was a Flemish composer. The only sources of his music are three manuscript choirbooks in the Aachen Cathedral (Germany).  The first book (D-AAm Chorbuch I) contains nineteen masses, the second one (D-AAm Chorbuch II) motets by Mangon and other composers (forty five of these motets are by Mangon) and the third one (D-AAm Chorbuch III) has several hymns.

Emendemus in melius is a four-voice motet by Johannes Mangon that can be found in the D-AAm Chorbuch II.

We have also published the beautiful Missa ne abscondas me Domine on the homonym motet by Clemens non Papa. Its edition can be found here.

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Music from the Aachen Cathedral

Johannes Mangon (c. 1525-1578)

Masses

Missa Ne abscondas me Domine

SATB

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Motets

Emendemus in melius

SATB

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