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.
Preparing this complete edition has been unusually challenging as the manuscript is plagued with errors of copy. All these errors have been clearly indicated and corrected.
We are starting our complete edition this week with one of the most beautiful seven-voice Masses of the Renaissance, the Missa Tu es pastor ovium by Andreas de Silva. The cantus firmus of the Mass clearly alludes to St. Peter and thus the figure of the Pope (Tu es pastor ovium, Princeps Apostolorum, tibi traditae sunt claves regni caelorum). Another copy of this Mass exists only in a Vatican source (V-CVbav MS Capp. Sist. 55).
A Musical Treasure for a
Medici Pope (I-VEaf 218)
A collection of Masses &
Motets for 7vv, 8vv, 9vv and 10vv
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Andreas
de Silva (b. c. 1475-1480) |
Missa
Tu es pastor ovium |
SSATTBB |
Soon |
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Pierre Moulu
(c. 1484-c. 1550) |
Salve regina
Barbara |
SSATTBB |
Soon |
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Jean Conseil (1489 or 1501-1534) |
Tempus faciendi |
STTTTBB |
Soon |
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Philippe
Verdelot (c. 1480-c. 1530) |
Beata es virgo
Maria |
SSATTBB |
Soon |
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Philip Van
Wilder (c. 1500-1554) |
Homo quidam fecit |
SAATTBB |
Soon |
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Carlay |
Vidit Dominus |
SAAATTB |
Soon |
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Philippe
Verdelot (c. 1480-c. 1530) |
Gaudent in caelis |
SSAATTBB |
Soon |
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Anonymous |
Canite tuba |
SSAATTBB |
Soon |
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Josquin Desprez?
(c. 1450/5-1521) |
Ave Maria |
SSAATTBB |
Soon |
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Anonymous |
Ave virgo virginum |
SSAATTBB |
Soon |
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Jean Mouton (c.
1459-1522) |
Fulgebunt justi |
SSAATTBB |
Soon |
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Jean Mouton (c.
1459-1522) |
Verbum bonum |
SSAATTBB |
Soon |
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Jacquet de
Mantua (c. 1483-1559) |
Sancta Trinitas |
SSAATTBB |
Soon |
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Philippe
Verdelot? (c. 1480-c. 1530) |
Inviolata |
SSAATTBB |
Soon |
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Anonymous |
Exortum in tenebris |
SAATTTTB |
Soon |
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Jean Mouton (c.
1459-1522) |
Nesciens mater |
SSAAATBB |
Soon |
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Nicolas Gombert
(c. 1495-c. 1560) |
Tu sola es virgo |
SSAATTBB |
Soon |
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Jean Lhéritier
(c. 1480-1551) |
Locutus est Dominus |
SSAATTBBB |
Soon |
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Heinrich Isaac?
(c. 1445-1517) |
Caelorum decus |
SSTTTTTBB |
Soon |
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Philippe
Verdelot (c. 1480-c. 1530) |
Laudate Dominum |
SAAAATTTB |
Soon |
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Passet |
Nigra sum |
SSAATTBB |
Soon |
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Nicolas Gombert
(c. 1495-c. 1560) |
Sustinuimus pacem |
SSAATTBB |
Soon |
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Nicolle des
Celliers de Hesdin (†1538) |
Laetabundus exultet |
SSAATTBB |
Soon |
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Claudin de
Sermisy (c. 1490-1562) |
Inclina Domine |
SATB+SATB |
Soon |
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Nicolas Gombert
(c. 1495-c. 1560) |
Regina caeli |
SSAATTTTBB |
Soon |
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Ruffino
Bartolucci da Assisi (1475?-1541) |
Missa Verbum bonum |
SATB+SATB |
Soon |
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