A four-voice motet for Christmas (de nativitate Domini) by the French composer Pierre Colin (fl. 1538-1572).
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A beautiful motet attributed to the Portuguese composer Pedro de Cristo (c. 1550-1618). The source of Quae est ista, copied by Pedro de Cristo himself, has four voices written down and indicates a beginning and an end of a canon in the Cantus, but omits its interval. However, the only possible option is a canon ad unisono, producing a very similar sound to the famous motet Ave virgo sanctissima by Francisco Guerrero. Could Pedro de Cristo have known and been inspired by the motet of Guerrero?
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A collection of five, six and eight-voice motets and echoi by the Italian composer Lodovico Agostini and his uncle (?) Agostino Agostini (†1569). The motets usually have enigmatic canons with their solutions. The Canones et echo finishes with four double-choir motets (two secular, Quae voces and Quis puer hic, and two sacred, Gloria virorum and Omnes gentes).
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Lodovico Agostini (1534-1590)
Canones et echo sex vocibus (Venice, 1572)
19 motets and echoi for 5vv-8vv
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Alma Dei genitrix |
SSAATB |
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Ave mundi spes Maria |
SSAATB |
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Gaude Barbara beata |
SSATTB |
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Dum clamaremus ad Dominum |
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Eleva Domine |
SSATTB |
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Quae celebrat thermas |
SSAATB |
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Dic Echo |
SSAATB |
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Quis colit olim Alcide |
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Fili mi Absalon |
SSAATB |
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Veni sponsa Christi |
SSATTB |
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Peccantem me quotidie |
SSATTB |
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Ego sum panis vivus |
SAATTB |
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Veni Sancte Spiritus |
SATTB |
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Odi te |
SSATTB |
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Veni sponsa Christi |
SSAATTB |
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Quae voces? |
SATB+SATB |
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Quis puer hic? |
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Gloria virorum |
SATB+SATB |
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Omnes gentes |
SATB+SATB |
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A five-voice Mass by the Ferrarese composer Paolo Isnardi. It is based on an unknown motet (by Isnardi himself?). The surprising twist happens in the final six-voice Agnus Dei, when two tenors sing in canon a soggetto cavatto with the words Alfonsus secundus serenissimus Dux Ferrariae vivat felix, dedicated to Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara.
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The Missa de Beata Virgine by the Franco-Flemish composer Pierre de Manchicourt is scored for five voices, with its final Agnus Dei for six voices (SSATTB).
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We are glad to announce that our complete edition of the Sacrarum cantionum liber sextus (Antwerp, 1558?) by the Flemish composer Hubert Waelrant (c. 1517-1595) is finally available.
Although Waelrant contributed to the previous volumes of the Sacrarum cantionum, the sixth volume is the only one composed entirely of his motets. It contains fifteen motets, eleven for five voices and four for six voices. The choice of texts is surprising, as Waelrant focuses specially in texts of the New Testament and an unusual amount of care (as he was a music editor himself) can be seen in the underlay of the texts and the indication of accidentals.
As Robert Lee Weaver (The New Grove) points out "he was an innovator among mid-16th-century Flemish composers, and his style bridges the period between that of Gombert and the mature Lassus. His works are characterized by careful attention to the relationship between text and music, reflecting the current humanistic outlook, and by chromatic harmony and inventiveness in the use of dissonances."
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Hubert Waelrant (c.
1517-1595)
Sacrarum cantionum liber
sextus (1558?)
15 motets for 5vv and 6vv
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Sacrarum cantionum (Complete) |
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Pater Abraham |
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Cum autem appropinquaret portae |
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Nihil opertum |
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Cum descendisset autem |
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Venite benedicti Patris mei |
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Facite homines discumbere |
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Cum transiret Jesus |
SATTB |
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Pastores erant |
SATTB |
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Non est vestrum |
SATTB |
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Nisi conversi fueritis |
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Cum ingrederetur |
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Caecus quidam sedebat |
SSATTB |
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Miserere mei |
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Domine si tu sustulisti eum |
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Omne quod dat mihi Pater |
SSATTB |
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