Motets for Saint Cecilia, 1540–1610

Name: Motets for Saint Cecilia, 1540–1610
SKU: R175
Price: 240.00 USD

Series: Renaissance Publisher: A-R Editions

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Edited by John A. Rice

R175 Motets for Saint Cecilia, 1540–1610

978-1-9872-0824-5 Full Score (2022) 8.5x11, xxvii + 262 pp.

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Abstract

Beginning in the sixteenth century, many of Europe’s greatest musicians as well as many whom we know less well wrote motets in honor of Saint Cecilia. The trend started in the north: until the 1560s, composers of Cecilian motets were mostly active in northern France and the Netherlands. The present anthology, a companion to the editor’s recently published book, Saint Cecilia in the Renaissance: The Emergence of a Musical Icon (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022), includes works that have not yet been published in modern editions or that have been published in performing editions or in critical editions that have not circulated widely. The motets range chronologically from 1542 to 1610, geographically from Antwerp and Paris to Prague and Rome, and in number of voices from four to sixteen. The anthology includes several polychoral works and two so-called “picture motets,” miniature motets written for (and preserved in) engravings that show Cecilia making music with angels.

Contents

1. Cantantibus organis, Pierre Certon, 4vv

2. Cecilia virgo gloriosa, Pierre Certon, 4vv

3. Domine Jesu Christe, Antoine de Mornable, 5vv

4. Dum aurora finem daret, Anonymous, 8vv

5. O beata Cecilia, Ludovicus Episcopius, 5vv

6. Dum aurora finem daret, Jacob Bultel, 5vv

7. Ceciliae laudes celebremus, Antonius Galli, 4vv

8. Virgo gloriosa Cecilia, Josquin Baston, 6vv

9. Cantantibus organis, Daniel Torquet, 8vv

10. Cecilia in corde suo, Jean de Chaynée, 4vv

11. Cantantibus organis, Alexander Utendal, 6vv

12. Cantantibus organis, Séverin Cornet, 5vv

13. Fiat cor meum, Daniel Raymundi, 5vv

14. Domine fiant anima mea, Cornelis Schuyt, 6vv

15. Benedicta es, virgo Cecilia, François Gallet, 6vv

16. Dum aurora finem daret, Ferdinand di Lasso, 6vv

17. Cantantibus organis, Rinaldo del Mel, 6vv

18. Cantantibus organis, Franz Sales, 5vv

19. O virgo generosa, Jan van Turnhout, 8vv in two choirs

20. Psallite cantantes Domino, Francesco Bianciardi, 6vv

21. Cantantibus organis, Francesco Bianciardi, 8vv in two choirs

22. Domine Jesu Christe, pastor bone, Francesco Bianciardi, 6vv

23. Dum aurora finem daret, Pierre Bonhomme, 9vv in two choirs

24. Cantantibus organis, Gasparo Villani, 16vv in four choirs