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Summary:

"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. The anonymous motet cycle Gaude, Flore Virginali consists of six four-voice motets based on stanzas of the eponymous rhymed Marian poem. It is one of only two motetti missales cycles preserved in a source outside Milan: Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Mus. Ms. 3154 (the Leopold Codex). All six motets in the cycle are unica within this source. The last three motets bear loco rubrics indicating their placement in the mass liturgy." -- [Provided by publisher]

Contributors:

Pavanello, Agnese , editor

Languages:

Latin
English

Language Notes:

Latin words; also printed as text with English translation (pages xix-xxi).
Staff notation.

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Gaude flore virginali (Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., ©[2023] — OCLC Number 1398279638; ISBN 9781987208610)

Related Series:

Recent researches in the music of the Renaissance; v. 178

Recent researches in the music of the Renaissance; [volume] 178

Motetti missales edition

Subjects:

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint — Songs and music

Motets — Scores

Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied — Scores

Sacred vocal quartets, Unaccompanied — Scores

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint

Motets

Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied

Sacred vocal quartets, Unaccompanied

Genres:

Motets

Scores

Songs and music

Performance Medium:

1 ensemble: mixed chorus [CATB]
4 performers: singer (4)
1 ensemble: mixed chorus
4 performers: voice (4)

General Notes:

Edited from the "Leopold Codex", Mus. M. 3154, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich.
For unaccompanied mixed chorus (cantus, contratenor (altus), tenor, and contratenor (bassus)).
Introduction, general preface, and critical report in English.
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Online resource (A-R editions, viewed October 8, 2023).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 score (xxi, 30 pages)) : facsimiles, 3 unnumbered pages of plates.

Call Numbers:

M2092 .G38 2023eb

ISBNs:

9781987208627 (online)
1987208625
9781987208610 (print) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.31022/R178
Publisher Number, A-R Editions, Inc.: R178 (score)

OCLC Numbers:

1403362177