Natus sapientia

Name: Natus sapientia
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Natus sapientia

A Motetti Missales Cycle from Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Mus. Ms. 3154

Edited by Cristina Cassia

R184 Natus sapientia

978-1-9872-0871-9 Full Score (2023) 8.5x11, xx + 29 pp.

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Abstract

The motet cycles known as motetti missales are among the most intriguing repertoires of late-fifteenth-century polyphony. This series features a new critical edition of the six cycles by Loyset Compère, Gaspar van Weerbeke, and Franchinus Gaffurius included in the Milanese Libroni and of the two anonymous cycles transmitted in the Leopold Codex (Munich MS 3154). For the first time this corpus is presented with uniform editorial criteria, facilitating the comparison of mensural choices and other compositional strategies. Furthermore, the introduction of each volume thematizes the peculiar characteristics of each cycle, in terms of textual choices, use of preexisting material, and musical design, allowing for a new assessment of the motetti missales that goes beyond the homogenizing stereotypes of earlier literature and accounts for the individual contributions of the various composers. The editors’ insight in this repertoire is the result of two interdisciplinary research projects financed by the Swiss National Fund and carried out at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in 2014–21.

Although most known motetti missales cycles appear within the Milanese Libroni, two unique anonymous cycles appear together in Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Mus. Ms. 3154 (the Leopold Codex), a source evidently compiled in Innsbruck. The cycle Natus sapientia, like the Milanese motetti missales cycles, consists of eight motets, but with texts focusing on the crucifixion of Jesus rather than Marian themes. This edition improves upon previously published versions by providing full text underlay for all voices and correcting apparent mistakes while retaining the unusual dissonances that characterize this cycle.

Contents

Natus sapientia

1. Natus sapientia

2. Cito derelictus

3. Hora prima

4. Crucifige clamitant

5. Iugo est crucis conclavatus

6. Iesus Dominus exspiravit

7. Fortitudo latuit

8. Datur sepulturae

Bio

Cristina Cassia graduated in classical literature and in musicology from the universities of Milan and Cremona; she also holds degrees in piano and organ from the conservatories of Mantua and Venice. After joining the musicological team “Ricercar” at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) in Tours (2010-13), she earned a Ph.D. in Musicology co-sponsored by the CESR and the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB—FNRS). Since 2017 she has been an associated researcher at the CESR, and from 2018 to 2020 she was part of the research team “Polifonia Sforzesca” at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel. She was a Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Fellow for the project “Pietro Bembo’s Soundscape: A Musical Tour in the Early Modern Italian Peninsula” at the University of Padua (2021–23).