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- Uitgever
- Obsidian, Great Britain
- Verschenen
- 2014
- Aantekening
- English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble; directed by David Skinner
- Tekstboekje in het Engels en Latijn
- "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"
- Bevat: Celeste beneficium / Jean Mouton ; Adiutorium nostrum / Antoine de Févin ; Nesciens mater / (Anoymous) ; Ave regina caelorum / Pierre de la Rue ; Descendi in hortum meum / attrib. Josquin Desprez ; Sancta trintas 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 / (Anoymous) ; Maxsimilla Christo amabilis / (Anoymous) ; Sancta Maria succurre miseris, O werder mondt / Franciscus Strus ; Sancta et immaclata virginitas / (Anoymous) ; Missus est Gabriel anglus / Josquin ; Dulcissima virgo Maria / (Anoymous) ; Tota pulches es, O pulcherrima, Salva / (Anoymous) ; O Sancta Maria virgo Virgium / (Anoymous) ; Verbum bonum et suave / Pierrequin de Therache ; Recordamini quomodo praedicit filium / (Anoymous) ; O beatissime Domine Iesu Christe, Fac me de tua gratia / (Anoymous) ; Ave sanctissima Maria / (Anoymous) ; Ecce Maria genuit nobis / Mouton ; Congratulamini mihi omnes / (Anoymous) ; Egregie Christi martir Christophore, Ecce enim / Févin ; Alma redemptoris mater / (Anoymous) ; Dulces exuviae / (Anoymous) ; 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 / (Anoymous) ; Anima mea, Invenerunt, Filiae Ierusalem / Heinrich Isaac ; Tribulatio et angustia invenerunt me / attrib. Josquin.
Dit album kun je niet aanvragen, maar wel inzien. Het ligt ter inzage op de volgende locatie:
Bibliotheek Rotterdam, Centrale Bibliotheek