Giovanni Battista Corvo (fl. 1554-5): Impetum inimicorum (AATBB) [Mutettorum quinque vocum, 1555]

We know very little about the life of Giovanni Battista Corvo (fl. 1554-5). His Liber primus mutettorum quinque vocum was published by Antonio Gardano in Venice, in 1555. He was probably from Como and dedicated the collection to Alessandro Farnese. Some of Corvo's motets are rather uncommon, as they are designated to unusual Saints like St. Julian, St. Severin and St Provino di Como ("Beati Provini Episcop Comensis").

Impetum inimicorum (AATBB) is the third motet from Liber primus mutettorum quinque vocum. It is dedicated to an unsual Saint: St. Julian.

Giovanni Battista Corvo (fl. 1554-5)

Mutettorum quinque vocum (Venice, 1555)

22 motets 5vv, 6vv, 8vv and 9vv  

Surge propera	SATTB	Buy
Cenantibus illis	SATTB	Buy
Impetum inimicorum	AATBB	Buy
Nunc dimittis	SSAAATTBB	Buy

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Francesco Portinaro (c. 1520 - c. 1577): Sancta et immaculata (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".

The beautiful Sancta et immaculata (SATTB) is the fourth motet in the Primi frutti de motetti. You can buy this score here. Please consider purchasing our scores for the price you want to support Ars Subtilior Editions! 

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	Soon
Principes persecuti sunt	SATTB	Soon
Da pacem, Domine	SATTB	Soon
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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Giovanni Battista Corvo (fl. 1554-5): Cenantibus illis (SATTB) [Mutettorum quinque vocum, 1555]

We know very little about the life of Giovanni Battista Corvo (fl. 1554-5). His Liber primus mutettorum quinque vocum was published by Antonio Gardano in Venice, in 1555. He was probably from Como and dedicated the collection to Alessandro Farnese. Some of Corvo's motets are rather uncommon, as they are designated to unusual Saints like St. Julian, St. Severin and St Provino di Como ("Beati Provini Episcop Comensis").

Cenantibus illis is the second motet in Liber primus mutettorum quinque vocum. You can buy this score here. Please consider purchasing our scores for the price you want to support Ars Subtilior Editions!

Giovanni Battista Corvo (fl. 1554-5)

Mutettorum quinque vocum (Venice, 1555)

22 motets 5vv, 6vv, 8vv and 9vv  

Surge propera	SATTB	Buy
Cenantibus illis	SATTB	Buy
Nunc dimittis	SSAAATTBB	Buy

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Ippolito Chamaterò (c. 1535/40-c. 1592): Missa ad Illustrissimam Parmae et Placentiae Ducissam (SAATTBB)

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)

Missa ad Illustrissimum Parmae Ducem	SATTB	Buy
Missa Elasmamera	SATTB	Soon
Missa Expurgate vetus fermentum	SATTB	Soon
Missa ad Illustrissimam Parmae Ducissam	SAATTBB	Buy

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Francesco Portinaro (c. 1520 - c. 1577): Preparate corda vestra (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".

Preparate corda vestra (SATTB) is the third motet in the Primi frutti de motetti. You can buy this score here. Please consider purchasing our scores for the price you want to support Ars Subtilior Editions! 

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	Soon
Peccavi super numerum	SATTB	Soon
Principes persecuti sunt	SATTB	Soon
Da pacem, Domine	SATTB	Soon
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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Ippolito Chamaterò (c. 1535/40-c. 1592): Missa ad Illustrissimum et Eccellentissimum Octavium Farnensem Parmae et Placentiae Ducem (SATTB)

This Mass is the work that starts 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 Missa ad Illustrissimum et Eccellentissimum Octavium Farnensem Parmae et Placentiae Ducem is a five-voice Mass dedicated to Ottavio Farnese (1521-1586), Duke of Parma and Piacenza and grandson of the Pope Paul III. We can find a cantus firmus pervading all the Mass with the text Quam Roma felix Augusto tam Parma gaudet Octavio. Farnesius prudens, fortunatus Octavius. The cantus firmus, which is not related to the technique of the soggetto cavato, appears in various rhythms and pitches: it is presented in syncopated values in the Qui tollis peccata mundi in the Gloria, and it is sung in black notes (hemiola) in the Hosanna in excelsis in the Sanctus while the other voices sing in a triple meter.

We are also publishing the three remaining Masses of the Missarum cum quinque et septem vocibus (Missa Elasmamera and Expurgate vetus fermentum for five voices and the Missa ad Illustrissimam Parmae Ducissam for seven voices).

Ippolito Chamaterò (c. 1535/40-c. 1592)

Missarum cum quinque et septem vocibus (1569)

	Missa ad Illustrissimum Parmae Ducem	SATTB	Buy

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Jacquet de Mantua (c. 1483-1559): O vos qui transitis (SATB) [Rusconi Codex]

An expressive three-part motet by Jacquet de Mantua in the Rusconi Codex. You can buy this score here. Please consider purchasing our scores for the price you want to support Ars Subtilior Editions! 

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

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Francesco Portinaro (c. 1520 - c. 1577): Absterget Deus (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".

Absterget Deus (SATTB) is the second motet in the Primi frutti de motetti. You can buy this score here. Please consider purchasing our scores for the price you want to support Ars Subtilior Editions! 

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	Soon
Sancta et immaculata	SATTB	Soon
Peccavi super numerum	SATTB	Soon
Principes persecuti sunt	SATTB	Soon
Da pacem, Domine	SATTB	Soon
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

©2023 Jorge Martín