Excellentiss. autorum liber primus quatuor vocum

General description

Title: Primus liber cum quatuor vocibus

Full Titles:

• 1539 – Primus liber cum quatuor vocibus. Mottetti del Frutto a quatro
• 1549 – EXCELENTISS. AVTORVM / DIVERSE MODVLATIONES QVE SVB / Titulo Fructus Vagantur per orbem, ab Antonio Gardane / Nuper recognite. / LIBER PRIMVS / CVM QVATOR VOCIBUS.
• 1562 – Mottetti del Frutto a quatro voci, libro primo

Publication date and place: 1539 in Venice by Antonio Gardano.
Genre, Subgenre: Sacred, Motets. Language: Latin, 4 voices.

Description: One of three volumes of "Motetti del Frutto" published by Antonio Gardano in 1539. Other volumes in the series contain motets for five voices and for six voices. All three volumes were reprinted by Gardano in 1549. Girolamo Scotto also printed this book in 1549 and reprinted his version in 1562, dropping three works.

External websites:

• 1539 Edition at the Bavarian State Library
• 1549 Edition at royalholloway.ac.uk (Gardano)
• 1562 Edition at the Bavarian State Library

List of works

In illo tempore (Jacquet de Mantua) (secunda pars: Dicebant ergo) Qui seminant in lachrimis (Nicolas Gombert) (secunda pars: Qui parce seminant) Alma Redemptoris mater a 4 (Jehan L'Heritier) (secunda pars: Tu que genuisti) Thomas unus de duodecim (Maistre Jhan) (secunda pars: Et post dies octo) Cenantibus illis (Jacques Du Pont) (secunda pars: Dixerunt uiri tabernaculi mei) Dum transisset sabbatum (Jacques Alart) (secunda pars: Et valde mane) Cerne meos ergo gemitus (Maistre Jhan) Benedictus dominus deus israel (Johannes Lupi) (secunda pars: Honor virtus et potestas) In te domine speravi (Philippe Verdelot) (secunda pars: Quoniam fortitudo mea) Congratulamini mihi omnes (Matthieu Lasson) (secunda pars: Recedentibus discipulis) Domine exaltetur manus tua (Jacques Arcadelt) (secunda pars: Possederunt nos domine) Nativitas tua, Dei genitrix virgo (Jhan Billon)

13. Maria virgo virginum (Antonio Gardano) 14. Non conturbetur cor vestrum (Pierre de Manchicourt) (secunda pars: Ego rogabo patrem meum) — also attributed to Maître Gosse (Gosse Junckers) 15. Sancta Maria, succurre miseris (Philippe Verdelot) 16. Beata es, Virgo Maria (Jehan L'Heritier) 17. Lectio actuum apostolorum (Garnier) (secunda pars: Surrexerunt autem quidam) – not present in the 1562 edition 18. Que est ista que progreditur (Loyset Piéton) 19. Virga iesse floruit (Dominique Phinot) – moved to last place in the 1562 edition 20. Sub tuum presidium (Pierre Certon) 21. Congratulamini mihi omnes (Claudin de Sermisy) – not present in the 1562 edition 22. Ave virgo gloriosa a 4 (Jehan L'Heritier) 23. Ascendens christus in altum (Jehan L'Héritier) (secunda pars: Ascendo ad patrem meum) 24. Spem in alium (Jacquet de Mantua) – not present in the 1562 edition

Works at CPDL

Title	Composer	Year	No.	Subgenre	Vo.	Voices
Alma Redemptoris mater a 4	Jehan L'Heritier	1534	3	Votive antiphons	4	SATB
Beata es, Virgo Maria	Jehan L'Heritier	1534	16	Motets	4	SATB
Cenantibus illis	Jacques Du Pont	1539	5	Motets	4	STTB
Cerne meos ergo gemitus	Maistre Jhan	1539	7	Motets	4	STTB
Congratulamini mihi omnes	Claudin de Sermisy	1539	21	Motets	4	SATB
Congratulamini mihi omnes	Matthieu Lasson	1539	10	Motets	4	STTB
Dum transisset sabbatum	Jacques Alart	1539	6	Motets	4	ATTB
In illo tempore … Modicum et non videbitis me	Jacquet de Mantua	1539	1	Motets	4	SATB
Maria virgo virginum	Antonio Gardano	1539	13	Motets	4	ATTB
Nativitas tua, Dei genitrix virgo	Jhan Billon	1539	12	Motets	4	SATB
Non conturbetur cor vestrum	Pierre de Manchicourt	1539	14	Motets	4	SATB,ATTB,ATBB
Sancta Maria, succurre miseris	Philippe Verdelot	1529	15	Motets	4	SATB
Spem in alium	Jacquet de Mantua	1539	24	Motets	4	SATB

External websites

• RISM 1539/13
• RISM 1549/10
• RISM 1549/10a
• RISM 1562/2