[Messes].--Morales, Cristóbal de (c.1500-1553) et autres auteurs.

première édition, 3 volumes (de 5), parties du superius, tenor et quintus, in-4 oblong (15.2 x 21 cm), 20 feuillets chacun (ff.XX), lettrines gravées sur bois, importante vignette de l'éditeur Gardano à la fin du superius et du quintus, dérelié, parties de l'altus et de bassus manquantes, quelques usures en tête des marges intérieures, dérelié, quelques rousseurs à la partie du quintus.

RISM Recueils 1547⁴; Censimento 16 CNCE 45166;
Mary Lewis, Antonio Gardano Venetian Music Printer 1538-1569: A Descriptive and Historical Study(1988), Volume 1: 1538-1569, No.113; online reference: http://www.rism.org.uk/manuscripts/165563

 

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Rare: Les éditions de musique de la première moitié du XVIème siècle sont de la plus grande rareté en vente publique.

Cette édition contient deux messes du plus grand compositeur espagnol de la Renaissance, Cristóbal de Morales: L'homme armé et De beata virgine. Matif de Séville, Moralesa choisit d'inclure ces deux oeuvres de jeunesse, qui firent sa renommée, toutes deux modelées sur des oeuvres de Josquin des Près, dans son premier livre de messes en 1544. La messe L'homme armé, assez "avant-gardiste", contient la célèbre mélodie du même nom, chantée par cinq voix. Les autres messes de ce recueil sont de Jacquet de Berchem (v. 1505-1567, plus connu pour ses madrigaux), et deux oeuvres sont attribuées de façon variable à "Luppi" et "Lupus" mais probablement composées par Lupus Hellinck (v.1494-1541).

Rare: editions of music from the first half of the sixteenth century are of the greatest rarity at auction

This edition contains two masses by the first great Spanish composer of the Renaissance, Cristóbal de Morales: the Missa L'homme armé and the Missa De beata virgine. Morales, probably a native of Seville, who is particularly noted for his masses, chose these two relatively early works, both modelled on examples by Josquin des Près, for inclusion in his first book of masses in 1544. The L'homme armé mass is rather "progressive" in that the famous tune 'L'homme armé' is employed in all five voices. The other masses in this collection are by Jacquet de Berchem (c.1505-1567, better known for his madrigals), and two works variously ascribed to "Luppi" and "Lupus", but both probably by Lupus Hellinck, (c.1494-1541).