Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance

Giovanni Maria Nanino (1545–1607) spent his entire life in the service of the various musical cappelle of the basilicas and churches of Rome. He succeeded Palestrina as maestro di cappella at S. Maria Maggiore in 1567, and in 1577 he became a member of the papal choir. Nanino's musical style was not a personal one, but the style of a whole group of Roman composers who wrote in the manner endorsed by the Council of Trent.

"It is a pleasure to review the work of a scholar who is not a prey to passing fashions of transcriptions, who provides nearly all the information which can reasonably be demanded, and who writes admirable English.... And the music itself is splendid, as technically brilliant as Palestrina and in some ways more vigorous and imaginative." John Caldwell, Music & Letters, April 1970.<.p>

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Hodie Christus natus est
Adoramus te, Christe
Ecce odor filii mei
Gavisi sunt discipuli
Qui vult venire post me
Hodie nobis caelorum Rex
Quem vidistis, pastores?
In diademate capitis
Nos autem gloriari oportet

Audi, benigne conditor
Decora lux

Beatus vir
Cantate Domino canticum novum
Domine, quis habitabit