Martin Peudargent (c. 1525/30-d. after 1587): Domine ne in furore (SSATTB) [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. 

Domine ne in furore tuo is a colossal six-voice motet (310 bars long!) in six parts with the complete text of the Psalm 6. This masterpiece even includes a nod to the ostinato of the famous Miserere mei by Josquin.

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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	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): Impetum inimicorum (AATBB) [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").

Impetum inimicorum (AATBB) is the third motet from Liber primus mutettorum quinque vocum. It is dedicated to an unsual Saint: St. Julian.

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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
Nunc dimittis	SSAAATTBB	Buy

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Jacquet de Mantua (c. 1483-1559): Veni Sancte Spiritus (SATB) [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.

Veni Sancte Spiritus is a short motet by Jacquet de Mantua (c. 1483-1559) 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

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Francesco Portinaro (c. 1520 - c. 1577): Sancta et immaculata (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".

The beautiful Sancta et immaculata (SATTB) is the fourth 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	Soon
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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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

©2024 Jorge Martín

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

©2024 Jorge Martín

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

©2024 Jorge Martín