Sebastián de Vivanco (c. 1551-1622): Adjuro vos (SATB+SATB+SATB) [Liber Motectorum, 1614]

This triple-choir work is the very last motet in the Liber Motectorum (1614) by the Spanish composer Sebastián de Vivanco. Its text is made up by various fragments of the Song of Songs. This motet was nearly lost as it is preserved in its entirety only in one source.

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Sebastián de Vivanco (c. 1551-1622)

Motets from Liber motectorum (1614)

Motets for 8vv, 9vv and 12vv

Adjuro vos	SATB+SATB+SATB	Buy
Cantate Domino	SATB+SATB	Buy
Caritas Pater est	SAT+SAT+SAB	Buy
Egredimini filiae Sion	SATB+SATB	Buy
In conspectu angelorum	SATB+SATB	Buy
O rex gloriae	SATB+SATB	Buy
Sancti et justi	SATB+SATB	Buy
Sicut lilium	SATB+SATB	Buy
Surge propera	SATB+SATB	Buy
Veni dilecte mi	SATB+SATB	Buy

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Francesco Portinaro (c. 1520 - c. 1577): Peccavi super numerum (SATTB) [Primi frutti de motetti, 1548]

Primi frutti de motetti a cinque voci (Venice, 1548) was the first collection of motets by the Italian composer Francesco Portinaro (c. 1520-c. 1577). Born in Padua, Portinaro worked for important institutions such as the Accademia dei Costanti of Vicenza, the Accademia degli Elevati of Padua or the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona. According to Maria Archetto "Portinaro's clearly constructed, fluid and reserved polyphonic style was praised during his lifetime". 

Peccavi super numerum (SATTB) is the fifth motet in the Primi frutti de motetti. You can buy this score here. Please consider purchasing our scores for the price you want to support Ars Subtilior Editions!

Francesco Portinaro (c. 1520 - c. 1577)

Primi frutti de motetti a cinque voci (Venice, 1548)

19 motets for 5vv, 6vv and 7vv

Tribularer si nescirem	SATTB	Buy
Absterget Deus	SATTB	Buy
Preparate corda vestra	SATTB	Buy
Sancta et immaculata	SATTB	Buy
Peccavi super numerum	SATTB	Buy
Principes persecuti sunt	SATTB	Soon
Da pacem, Domine	SATTB	Soon
Impetum inimicorum	SATTB	Soon
Domine, quis habitabit	SATTB	Soon
Regina caeli	SATTB	Soon
Vidi speciosam	SAATB	Soon
Aspice Domine	SATBB	Soon
Iste est Johannes	SATTB	Soon
Sicut cedrus	SATBB	Soon
Deus misereatur nostri	SSATTB	Soon
Gaudent in caelis	SATTB	Soon
Quanti mercenarii	SATTBB	Soon
Puer natus est nobis	SATTBB	Soon
Regina caeli	SAATTBB	Soon

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Giovanni Battista Corvo (fl. 1554-5): In adventu summi regis (SATTB) [Mutettorum quinque vocum, 1555]

We know very little about the life of Giovanni Battista Corvo (fl. 1554-5). His Liber primus mutettorum quinque vocum was published by Antonio Gardano in Venice, in 1555. He was probably from Como and dedicated the collection to Alessandro Farnese. Some of Corvo's motets are rather uncommon, as they are designated to unusual Saints like St. Julian, St. Severin and St Provino di Como ("Beati Provini Episcop Comensis"). 

The five-voice In adventu summi regis (SATTB) is the fourth motet from Liber primus mutettorum quinque vocum. 

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Giovanni Battista Corvo (fl. 1554-5)

Mutettorum quinque vocum (Venice, 1555)

22 motets 5vv, 6vv, 8vv and 9vv  

Surge propera	SATTB	Buy
Cenantibus illis	SATTB	Buy
Impetum inimicorum	AATBB	Buy
In adventu summi regis	SATTB	Buy
Nunc dimittis	SSAAATTBB	Buy

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Leonardo Barré (fl. 1537-after 1555): Pater noster / Ave Maria (SAATTB)

A fascinating double motet by the French composer Leonardo Barré (fl. 1537-after 1555). This musical gem has an extraordinary symbolical meaning in the canon in the Tenor 1 with the indication Ut discantur septem peccata mortalia dic septies Pater noster et Ave Maria ("To learn the Seven Deadly Sins say seven times Pater noster and Ave Maria"): therefore, the Altus 1 must sing (transposed up a fifth) seven times an ostinato of the first notes of the Tenor 1 in both parts of the motet.

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Jacques Buus (c. 1500-1565): Miserere nostri (SATB) [Primo libro de moteti a quatro voci, 1549]

No. 5 of Primo libro de moteti a quatro voci (Venice, 1549).

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Jacques Buus (c. 1500-1565)

Primo libro de moteti a quatro voci (Venice, 1549)

	Sic Deus dilexit mundum	SATB	Buy
	Omnis spiritus laudet Dominum	SATB	Buy
	Congratulamini mihi	SATB	Buy
	Haec dicit Dominus	SATB	Buy
	Miserere nostri	SATB	Buy

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Martin Peudargent (c. 1525/30-d. after 1587): O Dee cunctiparens (SATBB) [Liber primus sacrarum cantionum, 1555]

Martin Peudargent (c. 1525/30-d. after 1587) was a Flemish composer in the service of the Duke of Kleve as Kapellmeister. In his first work, the Liber primus sacrarum cantionum, published in Dusseldorf in 1555, he referred to himself as ‘musicus’ in the court of Duke Wilhelm V of Jülich-Kleve-Berg in Düsseldorf.

O Dee cunctiparens is a brilliant and unusual motet based on a part of the Hamartigenia ("The Origin of Sin") by Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348-c. 406), one of the great Christian Latin writers of late antiquity. 

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Martin Peudargent (c. 1525/30-d. after 1587)

Liber primus sacrarum cantionum (1555)

12 motets for 5vv and 6vv

	Pater noster / Ave Maria	SAATB	Buy
	Verbum iniquum	SAATB	Buy
	Libertas Christiana	SAATB	Buy
	Domine ne in furore	SSATTB	Buy
	O Dee cunctiparens	SAATB	Buy
	Jubilate Domino	SSATB	Soon
	Repleti sunt omnes	SSATB	Soon
	Qui peccatum non fecit	SSATB	Soon
	Sana me Domine	SSATB	Soon
	Fontes aquarum	SAATB	Soon
	Vivit Dominus	SAATB	Soon
	Laudate Dominum	SAATB	Soon

©2024 Jorge Martín

Maistre Jhan (c. 1485-1538): Hunc ego te, Euryale? (SAATB) [Treviso Cathedral Codice 36] (2024 Edition)

A masterpiece by Maistre Jhan (c. 1485-1538) in the Treviso Cathedral Codice 36 (I-TVd 36) based on a fragment of the Aeneid by Vergil (Book IX, 481-498). This text narrates the lament of Euryalus's mother when she discovers that he and his lover Nisus have died in the battlefield: “Is this you, Euryalus, that I see? You who were the last solace of my age, could you bring yourself to leave me alone, cruel one?"

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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	Buy
Jean Mouton (c. 1459-1522)	Moriens lux amantissima	SATTB	Buy
Renaldo (Petrus de Renaldis, †1521?)	Paradisi portas	SATB	Buy
Hotinet Barra (fl. 1510-1523)	Peccantem me quotidie	SATB	Buy
Jacquet de Mantua (c. 1483-1559)	Noe, noe, hodie Salvator	SATB	Buy
Jacquet de Mantua (c. 1483-1559)	O vos qui transitis	SATB	Buy
Jacquet de Mantua (c. 1483-1559)	Veni Sancte Spiritus	SATB	Buy
Jean Mouton (c. 1459-1522)	Salva nos Domine	SAATTB	Buy

 

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Cristóbal de Morales (c. 1500-1553): Hoc est praeceptum meum (SSATB) [Santiago Codex]

The Santiago Codex of Valladolid is one of the most significant manuscript sources of Renaissance Spanish music in the beginning of the 17th century. Preserved in the Parroquia de Santiago in Valladolid (Spain), it was copied by Diego Sánchez and other unknown copyists. It contains seventy-five works, including three Masses, one Requiem Mass and sixty-three motets: some of them are unique, as they are only found in this manuscript or have some important differences with the other known sources. The significance of the Santiago Codex also lies in its composers: we can find unique works by Cristóbal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero, Juan Navarro and Francisco Guerrero among others.

We are thrilled to announce that we are publishing a selection of works from the Santiago Codex, starting with Hoc est praeceptum meum by Cristóbal de Morales (c. 1500-1553). This motet is a re-texted version of the first part of Andreas Christi famulus (the second part is copied separately without text in the Santiago Codex). The part of the ostinato has been changed from the original Sancte Andreas, ora pro nobis to Sancte N, ora pro nobis (where N. can be any Apostle's name, as this motet is indicated for the Feasts for all the Apostles, in festis omnibus Apostolorum).

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