This Mass is the last work of the collection of four Masses dedicated to the Dukes of Parma and Piacenza, the Missarum cum quinque et septem vocibus, published in Venice in 1569. This collection was thought to be lost by Bernstein, but was recently found in the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emmanuele III in Naples.
The seven-voice (SAATTBB) Missa ad Illustrissimam Parmae et Placentiae Ducissam is a unique work in more than one way: it is a Mass dedicated to a noblewoman, Margherita di Parma (1522-1586), daughter of the Emperor Charles V and Duchess of Parma and Piacenza, married to the Duke of Parma Ottavio Farnese (the dedicatee of the first Mass in Chamaterò's collection of masses, the five-voice Missa ad Illustrissimum et Eccellentissimum Octavium Farnensem Parmae et Placentiae Ducem, available here); and, unlike any other Mass dedicated to a nobleman there is no cantus firmus here, and the special text dedicated to Margherita is sung by several voices simultaneously with the usual text of the Mass:
Parmae et Placentiae populis, Margarita Austria, principum omnium, Margarita Imperante, aurei saeculi felicitas affulsit.
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Ippolito Chamaterò (c. 1535/40-c. 1592)
Missarum cum quinque et septem vocibus (1569)
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Missa ad Illustrissimum Parmae Ducem |
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Missa Elasmamera |
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Missa Expurgate vetus fermentum |
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Missa ad Illustrissimam Parmae Ducissam |
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