Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance

Florence's Grand Duke Cosimo I (r. 1537–74) was a patron of many artists and academicians and also of his maestro di cappella Francesco Corteccia (fl. 1539–71). Corteccia followed Costanza Festa at the head of a long line of native-born composers of the sixteenth century who assumed the chief musical posts in Italy and brought to an end the domination of Italian music by foreigners. Corteccia's manuscript hymnary was a product of his early career, but late in his life he began preparing some of his sacred music for publication. His responsories were published in 1570, and his motets in 1571, after his death.

"Ms. McKinley's work maintains the excellent standards set by her predecessors in the Recent Researches series....a fine collection of choral music by a competent maestro piccolo of the sixteenth century." Howard Slenk, Notes, December 1970.

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O Regem caeli
Surge, illuminare Jerusalem
Omnes amici mei; Velum templi scissum est
O vos omnes
Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel
Tristes erant apostoli

Ave maris stella
Haec est Virgo sapiens
Sanctorum meritis

Laetare et exsulta civitas praeclara