composer
Josquin Desprez (c. 1450-1521) is often called the most important composer of the Renaissance period. His name is derived from the Flemish ‘Josken’ (Little Joseph). Very little is known about ...
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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK
Noli me tangere : for mixed choir a cappella / Aleksandra Chmielewska
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK
M/P fragments : for mixed choir / Silvia Borzelli
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK4
composition
Collectio Canticorum : 50 sacred songs for 4-6 voices (Volume 1) / Various composers, assembled by Joannes Otto; transcribed and edited by Cees Wagemakers
Other authors:
Wagemakers, Cees
(editor)
Senfl, Ludwig
(composer)
Contains:
Josquin Desprez: Veni, Sancte Spiritus - O lux beatissima (8’30”)
Josquin Desprez: Benedicta es - Per illud ave - Nunc Mater exora (6’30”)
Arnold von Bruck: Fortitudo Dei (3’15”)
Conrad Rupff: Hæc dicit Dominus (2’15”)
Josquin Desprez: Pater noster (4’)
Josquin Desprez: Ave Maria (2’45”)
Antoine de Févin: Sancta Trinitas (3’45”)
Josquin Desprez: Præter rerum seriem - Virtus Sancti Spiritus (6’)
Ludwig Senfl: Ave Maria - Ave vera humilitas (11’)
Ludwig Senfl: Hæc est dies - Hodie Deus - Id quod fuit - Hodie Deus - Id quod non erat - Hodie Deus - Ergo ex ordium - Gloria tibi Domine (12’30”)
Ludwig Senfl: Hodie in Iordane - Descendit Spiritus Sanctus (6’)
Ludwig Senfl: Philippe, qui videt me (3’30”)
Description:
The Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena (University Library of Jena, Germany), ThULB, contains a treasure of printed music from the Renaissance. There are 58 different collections, all printed between 1526 and 1544, in Nuremberg, Wittenberg, Strassburg, Rome, Venice, Paris. Even in Italy or France a number of editions like this is not easy to be found. These 58 collections, bound together in 13 Portions (so-called Konvolute) contain nearly 2000 vocal works of all kinds: Masses, Motets, Hymns, Madrigals, Psalms, Magnificat, Lieder etc. Some of the authors are forgotten.
The collection was founded by Friedrich III, der Weise (Frederick the Wise, 1463-1525) who started a private collection in Wittenberg. The collection was expanded by his successors. In 1548 the collections was transferred to Jena. One of the contributors was Georg Rhau, the cantor of the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, who founded a printing company in Wittenberg later on. "Novum et insigne opus musicum sex, quinque et quatuor vocum, cuius in
Germania hactenus nihil simile usquam est editum, Norimb. 1537" is the subject of this transcription.
Cees Wagemakers