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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