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Quam pulchra es : a motetti missales cycle from the Milanese Libroni / Gaspar van Weerbeke ; edited by Cristina Cassia.
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Weerbeke, Gaspar van, approximately 1445- composer.
- Series:
- Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.
- Recent researches in the music of the Renaissance ; v. 179.
- Motetti missales edition.
- Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
- Recent researches in the music of the Renaissance ; 179
- Motetti Missales Edition
- Standardized Title:
- Quam pulchra es (Motet cycle)
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Songs and music.
- Mary.
- Motets--Scores.
- Motets.
- Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied--Scores.
- Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied.
- Sacred vocal quartets, Unaccompanied--Scores.
- Sacred vocal quartets, Unaccompanied.
- Genre:
- Motets.
- Sacred music.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 score (xix, 43 pages, 4 pages of plates)) : facsimiles.
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2023.
- Language Note:
- Latin words; also printed as text with English translation (pages xvii-xix).
- Staff notation.
- 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 cycle Quam pulchra es by Gaspar van Weerbeke (ca. 1452-1517) consists of eight four-voice motets on centonate Marian texts. Among the motetti missales cycles, it boasts not only the most concordances within the Milanese Libroni but is also the only one whose motets were copied in Librone [4], the latest of these codices. So far, none of the motets of this cycle has been found in other contemporaneous sources, suggesting a particular connection between this cycle and Milan." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Quam pulchra es
- Alma redemptoris mater
- Salve, virgo salutata
- O pulcherrima mulierum
- Ave, regina caelorum mater
- O Maria, clausus hortus
- Mater Patris filia
- Tota pulchra es.
- Notes:
- Edited primarily from Milan, Archivio della Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano, Sez. Musicale, Librone 1 (olim MS 2269).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource (A-R editions, viewed October 8, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 9781987208641
- 1987208641
- OCLC:
- 1403359881
- Publisher Number:
- R179 A-R Editions, Inc. (score)
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