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Additional authors

1. Alamire, Petrus, 1471?-approximately 1534.
2. Skinner, David, 1964-
3. Mouton, Jean, -1522.
4. Févin, Antoine de.
5. La Rue, Pierre de, -1518.
6. Josquin, des Prez, -1521.
7. Strus, Franciscus.
8. Pierrequin, de Thérache, approximately 1465-1528.
9. Agricola, Alexander, 1446?-1506.
10. Ghiselin, Johannes.
11. Isaac, Heinrich, approximately 1450-1517.
12. British Library. Manuscript. Royal 8 G VII.
13. Alamire (Musical group), performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
14. English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Description

1. 2 audio discs; 4 3/4 in.

Subject

1. Motets
2. Chamber music > 16th century

Contents

1. Celeste beneficium / Jean Mouton -- Adiutorium nostrum / Antoine de Févin -- Nesciens mater / anonymous -- Ave regina caelorum / Pierre de la Rue -- Descendi in hortum meum / attrib. Josquin Desprez -- Sancta Trinitas unus Deus / Févin -- Vexilla Regis/Passio Domini nostri / La Rue -- Fama malum / Josquin -- Doleo super te frater mi Ionatha / La Rue -- O Domine Iesu Christe/Et sanctissima mater tua / anonymous -- Maxsimilla Christo amabilis / anonymous -- Sancta Maria succurre miseris/O werder mondt / Franciscus Strus -- Sancta et immaclata virginitas / anonymous -- Missus est Gabriel archanglus / Josquin -- Dulcissima virgo Maria / anonymous -- Tota pulches es/O pulcherrima/Salve / anonymous -- O Sancta Maria virgo virginum / anonymous -- Verbum bonum et suave / Pierrequin de Therache -- Recordamini quomodo praedixit filium / anonymous -- O beatissime Domine Iesu Christe/Fac me de tua gratia / anonymous -- Ave sanctissima Maria / anonymous -- Ecce Maria genuit nobis / Mouton -- Congratulamini mihi omnes / anonymous -- Egregie Christi martir Christophore/Ecce enim / Févin -- Alma redemptoris mater / anonymous -- Dulces exuviae / anonymous -- Dulces exuviae / Alexander Agricola -- Dulces exuviae / Josquin -- Dulces exuviae / Mouton -- Dulces exuviae dum fata deusque / Johannes Ghiselin -- Absalon, fili mi / Josquin/La Rue -- Iesus autem transiens / anonymous -- Anima mea/Invenerunt/Filiae Ierusalem / Heinrich Isaac -- Tribulatio et angustia invenerunt me / attrib. Josquin.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. "Among the musical treasures in the British Library is MS Royal 8.g.vii, a sumptuous choirbook prepared for Henry VIII and his first queen Catherine of Aragon. It was produced by Petrus Alamire, who not only headed one of the finest musical scriptoriums of the age but acted as a spy for Henry against Richard de la Pole, a Plantagenet claimant to the English throne. The choirbook, gifted to the royal couple in around 1516, contains 34 motets, many of them unique to this manuscript and includes masterworks by the leading French and Franco-Flemish composers of the age including Josquin Desprez, Jean Mouton, Heinrich Isaac, Antoine de Févin, and Pierre de la Rue"--Container.
2. Some of the motets are performed instrumentally.
3. Title from disc label.
4. Compact disc.
5. Program notes by David Skinner and Gawain Glenton, biographical notes on the performers, and texts with English translations (16 unnumbered pages) inserted in container.

Language (note)

1. Sung in Latin.