Choralis Constantinus (Heinrich Isaac)
Title: Choralis Constantinus
Full Title: Coralis Constantini, ut vulgo vocant, opus insigne & praeclarum, vereas coelestis harmoniae, Authore nunquam satis lattdato Musico, Henrico Isaac, Divi quondam Caesaris Maximiliani Symphonista Regio
Publication date and place: 1550 Nürnberg: Hieronymus Formschneider. – Volume 1
Publication date and place: 1555 Nürnberg: Hieronymus Formschneider. – Volume 2
Publication date and place: 1555 Nürnberg: Hieronymus Formschneider. – Volume 3
Description: Heinrich Isaac's Choralis Constantinus was commissioned for the cathedral of Constance in 1508 and published posthumously in three books 1550-1555. Volume I opens with Asperges me and a Gloria Patri, followed by propers of the de tempore Sundays. Volume 2 covers the major feasts employing sequences, mostly from the sanctoral cycle. "Both [Johannes] Ott and {Ludwig] Senfl died before the combined collections were published, and Ott's widow, left with the manuscripts already in order and edited by Senfl, engaged Formschneider to publish the first volume … Formschneider subequently published Books II and III in 1555" (Feiszli 1985).
Volumes
- ' – Published 1550 – 1555
External sites:
View the Wikipedia article on Choralis Constantinus (Heinrich Isaac).
- Choralis Constantinus (Heinrich Isaac) at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
- Feiszli 1985
- Cuyler 1948
References:
- Cuyler, Louise E. 1948. The Choralis Constantinus Book III of Heinrich Isaac (c. 1445-1517). Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Rochester (New York), Eastman School of Music. Three volumes.
- Feiszli, James D. 1985. Neglected Treasure — Heinrich Isaac's "Choralis Constantinus". The Choral Journal 26(4):27-32.