Complete works / Vicente Lusitano ; edited by Joseph McHardy and Arne Spohr.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Lusitano, Vicente, active 16th century, composer.

Contributor:

McHardy, Joseph, editor.

Spohr, Arne, editor.

Series:

Recent researches in Music Online. 2577-4573.

Recent researches in the music of the Renaissance ; v. 189.

Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573

Recent researches in the music of the Renaissance ; 189

Standardized Title:

Works

Language:

English

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Motets--Scores.

Motets.

Madrigals--Scores.

Madrigals.

Vocal ensembles, Unaccompanied--Scores.

Vocal ensembles, Unaccompanied.

Genre:

Motets.

Sacred music.

Madrigals (Music)

Scores.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 score (xxvi, 386 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates)) : facsimiles.

Place of Publication:

Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2026.

Language Note:

Latin (principally) and Italian words, also printed separately as texts with English translation.

Summary:

"Widely known to music history as a theorist, Vicente Lusitano's compositions--important examples of Portuguese polyphony in the mid-sixteenth century--have not yet been presented to the wider public in a scholarly edition. Lusitano sheds new light on the diversity of people involved in making polyphony in early modern Europe, and his Liber primus epigramatum (Rome, 1551; RISM 990038714) represents the earliest known works to have been brought to print in Europe by a person racialized as Black. This edition presents all of his surviving authenticated works: the twenty-three motets for five, six, and eight voices contained in the Liber primus, a five-voice setting of Psalm 128 preserved at the Württembergische Landesbibliothek (shelfmark Cod. mus. I fol. 3), the four-voice "Heu me, Domine" from the manuscript Tratado de canto de organo (RISM 1001262952), and the three-voice madrigal "Allor ch'ignuda," anthologized in Il primo libro delle muse (Venice, 1562; RISM1000000576). Transmitted in print and manuscript sources from Italy, France, Germany, and the Iberian Peninsula, these high-quality works reflect the wide geographical range of Lusitano's career and can enrich our understanding of the development of polyphonic composition after Josquin." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Liber primus epigramatum (1551). Hodie Simon Petrus : (SAATB)

Crux et virga : (SSATB)

Hic est Michael : (SAATB)

Aspice, Domine, quia facta est : (ATTTB)

Elisabeth Zachariae : (SAATB)

Emendemus in melius : (STTTB)

Isti sunt duae olivae : (STTTB)

Videns crucem : (SAATB)

Vidi civitatem : (SAATB)

Ave spes nostra : (TTBBB)

Lucia virgo : (SATTB)

Regina caeli (SSATB)

Quid montes : (SAATB)

Clamabat autem mulier : (SSATB)

Sancta mater, istud agas : (STTTB)

Benedictum est : (SAATB)

Aspice, Domine, de sede : (SAATTB)

Sancta Maria : (SAATTB)

O beata Maria : (SAATTB)

Salve Regina : (AAATTB)

Sum servus : (SSAATB)

Inviolata : (SSAATTBB)

Praeter rerum seriem : (SSAAATBB)

Motets from manuscript sources: Heu me Domine : (SATB) ; Beati omnes : (SSATTB)

Italian madrigal: Allor ch'ignuda : (ATB).

Notes:

Includes introduction and critical report in English.

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed 6 April 2026).

Contains:

Container of: Lusitano, Vicente, active 16th century. Motets.

Container of: Lusitano, Vicente, active 16th century. Heu me Domine.

Container of: Lusitano, Vicente, active 16th century. Emendemus in melius.

Container of: Lusitano, Vicente, active 16th century. Beati omnes.

Container of: Lusitano, Vicente, active 16th century. Allor ch'ignuda.

ISBN:

9781987209389

OCLC:

1587340874

Publisher Number:

R189 A-R Editions, Inc. (score)