Martin Peudargent (c. 1525/30-d. after 1587): Libertas Christiana (SAATB) [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.

Libertas Christiana (SAATB) is the third motet in the Liber primus sacrarum cantionum and has a very unusual text:

Libertas Christiana tandem licentiam non Christianam devincet, libertas Christiana nos ad superos vehet, licentia vero non Christiana ad inferos demerget, fruamur igitur Christo auspice libertate spiritus, fruamur deliciis Paracleti et a servitute carnis peccati et diaboli abstineamus, ne regnet in nobis peccatum et inferorum servitus. Alleluia.

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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	Soon
	O Dee cunctiparens	SAATB	Soon
	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

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Giovanni Battista Corvo (fl. 1554-5): Cenantibus illis (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").

Cenantibus illis is the second motet in Liber primus mutettorum quinque vocum. You can buy this score here. Please consider purchasing our scores for the price you want to support Ars Subtilior Editions!

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
Nunc dimittis	SSAAATTBB	Buy

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Duarte Lobo (c. 1565-1646): Missa Elisabeth Zachariae (SATTB)

The fifth mass in the Liber missarum IIII. V. VI. et VIII. vocibus (1621) by the Portuguese composer Duarte Lobo (c. 1565-1646) is based on the five-voice motet Elisabeth Zachariae by the Spanish composer Francisco Guerrero, Lobo's favourite composer (the other two masses in the Liber missarum based on Guerrero's motets are the Missa Sancta Maria, available here and the Missa Dicebat Jesus, available here).

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Duarte Lobo (c. 1565-1646)

Liber missarum IIII. V. VI. et VIII. Vocibus (1621)

Missa Sancta Maria	SATB	Buy
Missa de Beata Virgine	SATB	Buy
Missa Dicebat Jesus	SATB	Buy
Missa Valde honorandus est	SATB	Buy
Missa Elisabeth Zachariae	SATTB	Buy

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Ippolito Chamaterò (c. 1535/40-c. 1592): Missa ad Illustrissimam Parmae et Placentiae Ducissam (SAATTBB)

This Mass is the last work of the collection of four Masses dedicated to the Dukes of Parma and Piacenza, the Missarum cum quinque et septem vocibus, published in Venice in 1569. This collection was thought to be lost by Bernstein, but was recently found in the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emmanuele III in Naples. 

The seven-voice (SAATTBB) Missa ad Illustrissimam Parmae et Placentiae Ducissam is a unique work in more than one way: it is a Mass dedicated to a noblewoman, Margherita di Parma (1522-1586), daughter of the Emperor Charles V and Duchess of Parma and Piacenza, married to the Duke of Parma Ottavio Farnese (the dedicatee of the first Mass in Chamaterò's collection of masses, the five-voice Missa ad Illustrissimum et Eccellentissimum Octavium Farnensem Parmae et Placentiae Ducem, available here); and, unlike any other Mass dedicated to a nobleman there is no cantus firmus here, and the special text dedicated to Margherita is sung by several voices simultaneously with the usual text of the Mass:

Parmae et Placentiae populis, Margarita Austria, principum omnium, Margarita Imperante, aurei saeculi felicitas affulsit.

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Ippolito Chamaterò (c. 1535/40-c. 1592)

Missarum cum quinque et septem vocibus (1569)

Missa ad Illustrissimum Parmae Ducem	SATTB	Buy
Missa Elasmamera	SATTB	Soon
Missa Expurgate vetus fermentum	SATTB	Soon
Missa ad Illustrissimam Parmae Ducissam	SAATTBB	Buy

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Sebastián de Vivanco (c. 1551-1622): Twenty-five new motets from Liber motectorum (1614)

We have added twenty-five new motets (and reached the milestone of 900+ editions!) from the Liber motectorum (1614) by the Spanish composer Sebastián de Vivanco (c. 1551-1622). 

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Sebastián de Vivanco (c. 1551-1622)

Motets from Liber motectorum (1614)

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Motets for 4vv

Beatus iste Sanctus	SATB	Buy
Circumdederunt judaei Jesum	SATB	Buy
Da nobis quaesemus	SATB	Buy
De profundis	SATB	Buy
Diligite inimicos vestros	SATB	Buy
Domine Pater	SATB	Buy
Ductus est Jesus	SATB	Buy
Dulcissima Maria	SATB	Buy
Ecce ascendimus Jerosolymam	SATB	Buy
Erat autem quidam homo	SATB	Buy
Erat Dominus Jesus	SATB	Buy
Hic est vere Martyr	SATB	Buy
Hypocritae, bene prophetavit	SATB	Buy
Lazarus mortuus est	SATB	Buy
Lux perpetua	SATB	Buy
Petite et accipietis	SATB	Buy
Novissimae autem	SATB	Buy
O quam suavis est	SATB	Buy
Orantibus in loco isto	SATB	Buy
Praeteriens Jesus	SATB	Buy
Sancti mei	SATB	Buy
Spiritus Sanctus replevit	SATB	Buy
Stabat mater	SATB	Buy
Tu es vas electionis	SATB	Buy
Veni sponsa Christi	SATB	Buy
Venit mulier de Samaria	SATB	Buy

Motets for 5vv

Accesserunt ad Jesum	SATTB	Buy
Aperi oculos tuos	SAATB	Buy
Assumpsit Jesus	SAATB	Buy
Ave Maria	SSATB	Buy
Canite tuba	SATTB	Buy
Circumdederunt me	SSATB	Buy
Cum jejunatis	SAATB	Buy
Cum turba plurima	SSATB	Buy
Dicebat Jesus turbis	SAATB	Buy
Fratres, hora est jam	SATTB	Buy
Haec est vera fraternitas	SSATB	Buy
Ibant Apostoli gaudentes	SSATB	Buy
O doctor optime	SATTB	Buy
O Domine Jesu Christe	SSATB	Buy
Puer qui natus est	SSATB	Buy
Quae est ista	SSATB	Buy
Quis dabit capiti meo	SSATB	Buy
Simile est regnum	SATTB	Buy
Surge Petre	SAATB	Buy
Surrexit pastor bonus	SSATB	Buy
Stephanus vidit	SSATB	Buy
Virgo benedicta	SAATB	Buy

Motets for 6vv and 7vv

Accepit ergo Jesus	SSATTB	Buy
Ecce sacerdos magnus	SSATTB	Buy
Laetetur omne saeculum	SSSAATB	Buy
O sacrum convivium	SSATTB	Buy
Videns crucem Andreas	SSATTB	Buy

Motets for 8vv and 9vv

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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