This outstanding motet by Christian Hollander was published in the Liber tertius sacrarum cantionum quinque et sex vocum in 1554 and served as a model (in 1636, more than 80 years later!) for the Missa Si ignoras te by Filipe de Magalhães, which we are also publishing this week.
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The Missa Quarti toni is one of the two shortest Masses (alongside with the Missa Sexti toni) of the Liber missarum (1608). Unlike other Vivanco Masses, the Missa Quarti toni does not add any additional voices in any of its parts.
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The most famous work by Alonso Lobo. This astonishing six-voice motet was composed for the funeral of Philip II of Spain. Although there are lots of editions available online, they seem to miss some very crucial musica ficta: the most interesting omission occurs in measure 65, where there is a "hidden" English cadence (a clash of a minor second in a cadence that is common in Franco-Flemish music composers of the mid-sixteenth century like Gombert or Clemens non Papa) that appears in some Spanish works in the late sixteenth century like the one in Versa est in luctum by Sebastián de Vivanco or Vadam et circuibo civitatem by Tomás Luis de Victoria.
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No. 4 of Modulationes quinque et sex vocum (Venice, 1562).
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Our second edition of the Opera aliquot (Lisbon, 1609) by the Spanish composer Francisco Garro is a Mass inspired by the Missa Saeculorum amen by Francisco Guerrero. The Mass is based on the melodic formula of the Tone I to sing a Psalm or a Magnificat.
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Guerrero was a fruitful inspiration for many Spanish and European composers: we have already published the Missa Ave virgo sanctissima by Géry de Ghersem, the Missa Ave virgo sanctissima by Juan de Esquivel, the Missa Maria Magdalene and the Missa Beata Dei genitrix by Alonso Lobo, the Missa Sancta Maria and the Missa Dicebat Jesus by Duarte Lobo, to name a few!
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The third Mass in the Liber missarum IIII. V. VI. et VIII. vocibus (Antwerp, 1621) by Duarte Lobo (c. 1565-1646) is based on a motet by the Spanish composer Francisco Guerrero.
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The third Mass in the Missae sex IV, V et VI vocum (Antwerp, 1604) by the Spanish composer Pedro Rimonte (1565-1627) is based on a Palestrina Mass (like the Missa In diebus illis). Both the Sanctus (that has an ellaborated double canon) and the Agnus Dei are set for six voices.
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Cristóbal de Montemayor (or Cristoforo Montemayor) is a rather unknown Spanish Renaissance composer. The only source for his works is the Liber primus cum octo et sex et quinque et quatuor vocibus (Napoli, 1593), a collection with psalms for double choir, hymns, motets and a couple of Masses. Though the double choir psalms and hymns are quite uninteresting, the works that stand out are the motets for four, five and six voices.
We are publishing the motets for four, five and six voices by Montemayor in Ars Subtilior Editions. The copy of the Liber primus (I-RN Mss musicali 135) has a lot of errors (text, accidentals, values...) that have been corrected for our editions.
Puer qui natus est is a four-voice motet for high voices (SSAT) dedicated to St. John the Baptist.
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The sixth motet of Canticorum liber primus cum sex vocibus (Venice, 1571) by Francesco Corteccia (1502-1571) is dedicated to Lucrezia de Medici and Alfonso II d'Este (Duke of Ferrara).
The Tenor I sings a long soggetto cavato with the words Alphonsus Dux Ferrariae cum Lucretia Medice vivat semper (Bb C F F G Bb A G F F G A Bb G A G A Bb G G).
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Francesco Corteccia (1502-1571)
Canticorum Liber primus cum sex vocibus (Venice, 1571)
18 motets for 6vv
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Omnipotens
et misericors Deus |
SATTTB |
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Usque modo
non petistis |
SATTTB |
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In adventu summi regis |
SAATTB |
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Descendit Spiritus Sanctus |
SSATBB |
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Propter lignum |
SSATTB |
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Formosam juveni |
SAATTB |
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Nr. 8 of Canones et echo sex vocibus, 1572. You can buy or download this score here. Remember, you can buy our scores for the price you want to support Ars Subtilior Editions!
Lodovico Agostini (1534-1590)
Canones et echo sex vocibus (Venice, 1572)
22 motets for
6vv, 7vv and 8vv
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Alma Dei genitrix |
SSAATB |
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Ave mundi spes Maria |
SSAATB |
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Gaude Barbara beata |
SSATTB |
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Dum clamaremus ad Dominum |
SSATTB |
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Eleva Domine |
SSATTB |
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Quae celebrat thermas |
SSAATB |
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Dic Echo |
SSAATB |
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Quis colit olim Alcide |
SSATTB |
