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Magnificat : for 4 voices / Johann Stadlmayr; transcribed and edited by Cees Wagemakers
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK
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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK8
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK
Archipel IV : Eiland in de stroom, voor gemengd koor , 1989 / op tekst van Hans Warren, Daan Manneke
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK8
composition
Magnificat : for 4 voices / Johann Stadlmayr; transcribed and edited by Cees Wagemakers
Other authors:
Wagemakers, Cees
(Editor)
Stadlmayr, Johann
(Composer)
Description:
The Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staats Bibliothek in Munich, Germany) holds a unique collection of large folio format choirbooks from the Bavarian court music ensemble, predominantly from the time of Orlando di Lasso serving as court music director. Several splendidly illustrated choir books originally belonged to the personal collection of the Bavarian dukes. The most beautiful one is the collection of motets by Cipriano de Rore for Duke Albrecht V, also available at Donemus (D 16092). Choirbooks have all the parts on two facing pages, in contrast to the separate books for each voice that we see mostly in Renaissance editions.
Manuscript # 88 is a collection of 8 settings of the Magnificat by Johann Stadlmayr on all 8 church modes. Stadlmayr has written settings on the even verses, the odd verses are supposed to be sung in the corresponding mode in plainchant. In all the settings the original melody can be heard as cantus firmus. The title of the book shows the composer as ‘Ioannes Stadlmair, Capellæ Magister Illustrissimi et Reverendissimi Principis Salisburgensis’ ( J.S., Choir master of the Most illustre and reverend Prince of Salzburg).
Cees Wagemakers, 2018