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Notated Music Cantiones, qvæ ab argvmento sacræ vocantvr, qvinqve et sex partivm avtoribvs Thoma Tallisio & Guilielmo Birdo Anglis, serenissimae Regineae Maiestati á priuato sacello generosis, & organistis

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Title

  • Cantiones, qvæ ab argvmento sacræ vocantvr, qvinqve et sex partivm avtoribvs Thoma Tallisio & Guilielmo Birdo Anglis, serenissimae Regineae Maiestati á priuato sacello generosis, & organistis

Names

  • Tallis, Thomas, approximately 1505-1585, composer
  • Byrd, William, 1539 or 1540-1623, composer

Created / Published

  • [London] : Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius typographus Londinensis in claustro vulgo Blackfriers commorans, 1575.

Contents

  • Saluator mu[n]di ; Absterge Domine ; In manus tuas / T. Tallis -- Emendemus in melius ; Ad iuuanos Deus salutaris noster (secunda pars) ; Libera me Domine, & pone me iuxta te ; Dies mei transierunt (secunda pars) ; Peccante[m] me quotidie / W. Birdi -- Mihi aute[m] nimis ; O nata lux de lumine ; O sacru[m] co[n]uiuium / T. Tallis -- Aspice Domine quia facta est desolata ciuitas ; Attollite portas ; O Lux beata trinitas ; Deo Patri sit gloria (secunda pars) / W. Birdi -- Dereli[n]quit impius ; Sabbathum, Dum Transisset Sabbathum ; Virtus, honor, virtus & potestas ; Illae du[m] pergu[n]t ; Claro paschali gaudio (secunda pars) ; Rex Christi eleme[n]tissime (tertia pars) / T. Tallis -- Laudate pueri Dominum ; Memento homo quod cinis ; Siderum rector Deus alme / W. Birdi -- Procul recedant somnia ; Procul recedant somnia (secunda pars) ; Saluator mu[n]di ; Facti sunt nazarei / T. Tallis -- Da mihi auxilium ; Domine, secundu[m] actum meum ; Ideo deprecor (secunda pars) ; Diliges Dominu[m] Deum tuum / W. Birdi -- In ieiunio & fletu ; Suscipe quaeso domine ; Si enim iniquitates recordabens (secunda pars) / T. Tallis -- Miserere mihi Domine ; Tribue Domine ; Te deprecor supplico (secunda pars) ; Gloria Patri qui creauit nos (tertia pars) ; Libera me Domine de morte aeterna / W. Birdi -- Miserere nostri Domine / T. Tallis (W. Birdi in Discantus).

Headings

  • -  Motets
  • -  Part songs, Latin

Genre

  • Motets
  • Part songs

Notes

  • -  Sacred songs.
  • -  In six parts, complete.
  • -  For svperivs, discantus, sexta pars, tenor, contra tenor. and bassvs.
  • -  Title from superivs part book.
  • -  Formerly in the Huth collection.
  • -  RISM (Répertoire international des sources musicales), B/I, 1575/3
  • -  RISM (Répertoire international des sources musicales), A/I, T 55
  • -  RISM (Répertoire international des sources musicales), 990063597 https://opac.rism.info/search?id=990063597&view=rism External
  • -  Latin words.
  • -  Mensural notation.

Medium

  • 6 parts ; 15 x 22 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • M1490 .T28

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2014572357

Online Format

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Cantiones, qvæ ab argvmento sacræ vocantvr, qvinqve et sex partivm avtoribvs Thoma Tallisio & Guilielmo Birdo Anglis, serenissimae Regineae Maiestati á priuato sacello generosis, & organistis. composeds by Tallis, Thomas, Approximately, and Byrd, William, 1539 Or [London: Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius typographus Londinensis in claustro vulgo Blackfriers commorans, 1575] Notated Music. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2014572357/.

APA citation style:

(1575) Cantiones, qvæ ab argvmento sacræ vocantvr, qvinqve et sex partivm avtoribvs Thoma Tallisio & Guilielmo Birdo Anglis, serenissimae Regineae Maiestati á priuato sacello generosis, & organistis. Tallis, T. & Byrd, W., comps [London: Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius typographus Londinensis in claustro vulgo Blackfriers commorans] [Notated Music] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2014572357/.

MLA citation style:

Cantiones, qvæ ab argvmento sacræ vocantvr, qvinqve et sex partivm avtoribvs Thoma Tallisio & Guilielmo Birdo Anglis, serenissimae Regineae Maiestati á priuato sacello generosis, & organistis. comp by Tallis, Thomas, Approximately, and Byrd, William, 1539 Or [London: Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius typographus Londinensis in claustro vulgo Blackfriers commorans, 1575] Notated Music. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2014572357/>.