We are glad to announce that our complete edition of the Sacrarum cantionum liber sextus (Antwerp, 1558?) by the Flemish composer Hubert Waelrant (c. 1517-1595) is finally available.
Although Waelrant contributed to the previous volumes of the Sacrarum cantionum, the sixth volume is the only one composed entirely of his motets. It contains fifteen motets, eleven for five voices and four for six voices. The choice of texts is surprising, as Waelrant focuses specially in texts of the New Testament and an unusual amount of care (as he was a music editor himself) can be seen in the underlay of the texts and the indication of accidentals.
As Robert Lee Weaver (The New Grove) points out "he was an innovator among mid-16th-century Flemish composers, and his style bridges the period between that of Gombert and the mature Lassus. His works are characterized by careful attention to the relationship between text and music, reflecting the current humanistic outlook, and by chromatic harmony and inventiveness in the use of dissonances."
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Hubert Waelrant (c.
1517-1595)
Sacrarum cantionum liber
sextus (1558?)
15 motets for 5vv and 6vv
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Sacrarum cantionum (Complete) |
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Pater Abraham |
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Cum autem appropinquaret portae |
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Nihil opertum |
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Cum descendisset autem |
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Venite benedicti Patris mei |
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Facite homines discumbere |
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Cum transiret Jesus |
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Pastores erant |
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Non est vestrum |
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Nisi conversi fueritis |
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Cum ingrederetur |
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Caecus quidam sedebat |
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Miserere mei |
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Domine si tu sustulisti eum |
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Omne quod dat mihi Pater |
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