Monday 30 January 2023

Melchor Robledo (c. 1510-1586): Missa voces musicales (SSATB)

The Missa voces musicales (also known as Missa Fa re ut fa sol la) by the Spanish Renaissance composer Melchor Robledo (c. 1510-1586)  is a Mass based on an ostinato of the six notes (F D C F G A) (like Stefano Felis' Missa La sol fa mi re ut). While the Gloria and Credo are set in a surprisingly simple and homophonic style, the rest of the parts (Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei) are beautifully composed, specially the Agnus Dei, which is scored for seven voices, including a canon in two voices with the ostinato melody in long values. This is a sort of urtext edition, as it has been prepared by carefully comparing three incomplete sources of the Mass, two in Spain (Tarazona and Silos) and one in Italy (Vatican Library).

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Wednesday 25 January 2023

Francesco Corteccia (1502-1571): Sancti tui Domine (SATTBB)

The ninth motet in Canticorum liber primus cum sex vocibus (Venice, 1571) by Francesco Corteccia has a double text: while five voices sing Sancti tui Domine florebunt sicut lilium... the Quinta pars (Tenor 2) has a cantus firmus ostinato with the words Omnes Sancti et Sancte Dei orate pro nobis.

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Francesco Corteccia (1502-1571)

Canticorum Liber primus cum sex vocibus (Venice, 1571)

18 motets for 6vv

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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Esto mihi in Deum

SAATBB

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O Paule Ursine

SSATTB

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Sancti tui Domine

SATTBB

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Tuesday 24 January 2023

Jacobus Vaet (c. 1529-1567): Justus germinabit (SAATTB)

No. 7 of Modulationes quinque et sex vocum (Venice, 1562). You can buy or download this score here. Remember, you can purchase our scores for the price you want to support Ars Subtilior Editions!


Jacobus Vaet (c. 1529-1567)

Modulationes quinque et sex vocum, nº 1 (1562)

21 motets for 5vv and 6vv

 

Musica Dei donum optimi

SATTB

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Mater digna Dei

SATTB

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Simile est regnum caelorum

SAATB

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Immolabit hedum

SAATB

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Filiae Jerusalem

SATTB

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Stat felix domus Austriae

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Justus germinabit

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Monday 23 January 2023

Duarte Lobo (c. 1565-1646): Missa Valde honorandus est (SATB)

A Mass by the Portuguese composer Duarte Lobo (c. 1565-1646) based on the four-voice motet by Palestrina. The most fascinating moment occurs in the Agnus Dei: Duarte Lobo points to a single note of the Cantus with an enigmatic canon with this single indication: Cantus secundus. Sic eum volo manere. The words have a symbolic meaning and have a close relation with the original motet, dedicated to St. John the Apostle: in John 21:22-23 Jesus says Si sic eum volo manere donec veniam, quid ad te? Tu me sequere ("If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow me."). This means that the Cantus secundus must remain on that single note (that is, that voice must repeat one single note on the whole Agnus Dei).

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Friday 6 January 2023

Pierre de Manchicourt (c. 1510-1564): Missa Reges terrae (SSATTB)

A six-voice Mass for Epiphany based on Manchicourt's own motet (the edition of the motet can also be found here). 

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Tuesday 20 December 2022

Pierre Colin (fl. 1538-1572): Pastores dicite (SATB)

A four-voice motet for Christmas (de nativitate Domini) by the French composer Pierre Colin (fl. 1538-1572).

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Thursday 15 December 2022

Pedro de Cristo (c. 1550-1618): Quae est ista (SSATB)

A beautiful motet attributed to the Portuguese composer Pedro de Cristo (c. 1550-1618). The source of Quae est ista, copied by Pedro de Cristo himself, has four voices written down and indicates a beginning and an end of a canon in the Cantus, but omits its interval. However, the only possible option is a canon ad unisono, producing a very similar sound to the famous motet Ave virgo sanctissima by Francisco Guerrero. Could Pedro de Cristo have known and been inspired by the motet of Guerrero?

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Tuesday 13 December 2022

Lodovico Agostini (1534-1590): Canones et echo sex vocibus (1572) (5vv-8vv) (Complete Edition)

A collection of five, six and eight-voice motets and echoi by the Italian composer Lodovico Agostini and his uncle (?) Agostino Agostini (†1569). The motets usually have enigmatic canons with their solutions. The Canones et echo finishes with four double-choir motets (two secular, Quae voces and Quis puer hic, and two sacred, Gloria virorum and Omnes gentes).

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Lodovico Agostini (1534-1590) 

Canones et echo sex vocibus (Venice, 1572)

19 motets and echoi for 5vv-8vv  

Canones et echo sex vocibus (Complete)

 

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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

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Fili mi Absalon

SSAATB

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Veni sponsa Christi

SSATTB

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Peccantem me quotidie

SSATTB

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Ego sum panis vivus

SAATTB

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Veni Sancte Spiritus

SATTB

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Odi te

SSATTB

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Veni sponsa Christi

SSAATTB

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Quae voces?

SATB+SATB

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Quis puer hic?

SATB+SATB

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Gloria virorum

SATB+SATB

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Omnes gentes

SATB+SATB

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Monday 12 December 2022

Paolo Isnardi (1536-1596): Missa Ego clamavi (SATTB)

A five-voice Mass by the Ferrarese composer Paolo Isnardi. It is based on an unknown motet (by Isnardi himself?). The surprising twist happens in the final six-voice Agnus Dei, when two tenors sing in canon a soggetto cavatto with the words Alfonsus secundus serenissimus Dux Ferrariae vivat felix, dedicated to Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara.

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Wednesday 7 December 2022

Pierre de Manchicourt (c. 1510-1564): Missa de Domina (SATTB)

The Missa de Beata Virgine by the Franco-Flemish composer Pierre de Manchicourt is scored for five voices, with its final Agnus Dei for six voices (SSATTB).

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Thursday 1 December 2022

Hubert Waelrant (c. 1517-1595): Sacrarum cantionum liber sextus (5vv-6vv, 1558?) (Complete Edition)

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

 

Sacrarum cantionum (Complete)

5vv-6vv

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Pater Abraham

SSATB

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Cum autem appropinquaret portae

SATTB

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Nihil opertum

SATTB

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Cum descendisset autem

SATTB

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Venite benedicti Patris mei

SATTB

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Facite homines discumbere

SATTB

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Cum transiret Jesus

SATTB

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Pastores erant

SATTB

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Non est vestrum

SATTB

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Nisi conversi fueritis

SATTB

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Cum ingrederetur

SATTB

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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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