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Monday 21 November 2022

Sebastián Raval (c. 1550-1604): Motectorum quinque vocum (1593)

Sebastián Raval (c. 1550-1604) was a Spanish composer, friar and soldier, active in Italy. He apparently worked as a musician at the Urbino court of Duke Francesco. He published a book of motets, another of canzonets and one of madrigals in Rome.

Raval was famous for his competitive personality: He challenged Giovanni Maria Nanino, Francesco Soriano and Achille Falcone to musical contests between 1592 and 1600.

The Motectorum quinque vocum is the only printed sacred music by Raval that remains extant nowadays. It is an exhaustive collection of 28 works that includes an extensive range of styles: homophonic, polychoral and canonic motets, from four to sixteen voices.

Some extraordinary works in the Motectorum quinque vocum are the canon for sixteen voices Vivat Alexander (a nod to the dedicatee of the collection, the Cardinal Alessandro Peretti di Montalto) or the outstanding seven-voice Credo quod Redemptor meus with its canonic cantus firmus, the six-voice Salve regina or the polychoral (with two choirs of three voices each) Panis quem ego dabo.

Perhaps the most remarkable work in the Motectorum quinque vocum is the five-voice Iste qui est contempsit. This motet, that has to be performed at a slower tempo than usual (which is suggested by its time signature and the short note values), is based on a mensural canon, producing a very similar effect to the legendary motet by Miserere nostri by Thomas Tallis

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Sebastián Raval (c. 1550-1604)

Motectorum quinque vocum (Rome, 1593)

28 motets for 4vv, 5vv, 6vv, 7vv and 16vv

Motectorum quinque vocum (Complete)

4vv-16vv

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Veni Creator Spiritus

AAAA

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Vivat Alexander

16vv

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Puer qui natus est

SSATB

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Vidi turbam magnam

SATTB

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Ascendit Deus

SSATB

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Intret in conspectu tuo

SATTB

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Iste est qui contempsit

SATTB

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Beata es Virgo Maria

SSSS

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Panis quem ego dabo

SSB+SAT

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Alma redemptoris Mater

SATB

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Credo quod Redemptor

SSAATTB

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Ave regina caelorum

SATB

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Salve regina

SSATTB

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Beatus Laurentius

SATTB

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Ille oculos tollens

SATTB

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Angelus ad pastores ait

SATTB

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Gloriosae virginis Mariae

SSATB

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Franciscus pauper

SSATB

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Crux fidelis

SSATB

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Gloriosus Deus in sanctis

SATTB

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Pueri Hebraeorum

SSSAB

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Dicebat Jesus turbis

SSATB

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Quanti mercenarii

SSATB

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O sacrum convivium

SSAAT

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Venisti tandem caeli

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Ego sum panis vivus

SSSAT

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Regina caeli

SATTB

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Cum pervenisset

SATTB

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