Showing posts with label Mouton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mouton. Show all posts

Wednesday, 9 October 2024

A Musical Treasure for a Medici Pope

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

Andreas de Silva (b. c. 1475-1480)

Missa Tu es pastor ovium

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Pierre Moulu (c. 1484-c. 1550)

Salve regina Barbara

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Jean Conseil (1489 or 1501-1534)

Tempus faciendi

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Philippe Verdelot (c. 1480-c. 1530)

Beata es virgo Maria

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Philip Van Wilder (c. 1500-1554)

Homo quidam fecit

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Carlay

Vidit Dominus

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Philippe Verdelot (c. 1480-c. 1530)

Gaudent in caelis

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Anonymous

Canite tuba

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Josquin Desprez? (c. 1450/5-1521)

Ave Maria

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Anonymous

Ave virgo virginum

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Jean Mouton (c. 1459-1522)

Fulgebunt justi

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Jean Mouton (c. 1459-1522)

Verbum bonum

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Jacquet de Mantua (c. 1483-1559)

Sancta Trinitas

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Philippe Verdelot? (c. 1480-c. 1530)

Inviolata

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Anonymous

Exortum in tenebris

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Jean Mouton (c. 1459-1522)

Nesciens mater

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Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495-c. 1560)

Tu sola es virgo

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Jean Lhéritier (c. 1480-1551)

Locutus est Dominus

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Heinrich Isaac? (c. 1445-1517)

Caelorum decus

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Philippe Verdelot (c. 1480-c. 1530)

Laudate Dominum

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Passet

Nigra sum

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Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495-c. 1560)

Sustinuimus pacem

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Nicolle des Celliers de Hesdin (†1538)

Laetabundus exultet

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Claudin de Sermisy (c. 1490-1562)

Inclina Domine

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Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495-c. 1560)

Regina caeli

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Ruffino Bartolucci da Assisi (1475?-1541)

Missa Verbum bonum

SATB+SATB

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©2024 Jorge Martín


Monday, 15 April 2024

Jean Mouton (c. 1459-1522): Salva nos Domine (SAATTB) [Rusconi Codex]

Now kept in the Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna, the Rusconi Codex, probably copied c. 1518 for the Cathedral of Padua, contains 95 works, mostly motets and a few masses (some of them unica) and, according to Robert Nosow, was copied by one of its most represented composers, a certain Renaldo (probably Petrus de Renaldis, died in 1521). The Rusconi Codex is one of the most important music manuscripts in northern Italy in the first third of the 16th century. We are publishing a selection of over 60 works by Italian and French composers such as Jean Mouton, Renaldo, Jacquet de Mantua, Costanzo Festa, Lupus, Pierre Moulu, Maistre Jhan and others. 

Salva nos Domine is an outstanding six-voice motet by Jean Mouton (c. 1459-1522) from 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

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Jean Mouton (c. 1459-1522)

Moriens lux amantissima

SATTB

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Renaldo (Petrus de Renaldis, †1521?)

Paradisi portas

SATB

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Hotinet Barra (fl. 1510-1523)

Peccantem me quotidie

SATB

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Jacquet de Mantua (c. 1483-1559)

Noe, noe, hodie Salvator

SATB

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Jacquet de Mantua (c. 1483-1559)

O vos qui transitis

SATB

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Jacquet de Mantua (c. 1483-1559)

Veni Sancte Spiritus

SATB

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Jean Mouton (c. 1459-1522)

Salva nos Domine

SAATTB

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©2024 Jorge Martín

Monday, 12 June 2023

Jean Mouton (c. 1459-1522): Moriens lux amantissima (SATTB) [Rusconi Codex]

This motet for five voices by Jean Mouton in the Rusconi Codex has a seven-note ostinato plainchant with the words Tibi soli peccavi.

You can buy or download this score here. You can purchase 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

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Jean Mouton (c. 1459-1522)

Moriens lux amantissima

SATTB

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© 2023 Jorge Martín