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Byrd, William
Byrd, William (c. 1540-1623) Show the biography
newMissa 4 vocum EMP1297 €7.50
ATBB Scoring legend General Use - Mass Ordinary ISMN M-2056-1297-9 
The mass is here transposed down a fifth, the pitch at which our editor considers it rightly belongs. This version has three voices in octave-Treble ('Tenor') clef and one in Bass clef.
Gabrieli, Giovanni
Gabrieli, Giovanni (c. 1557 - 1612) Show the biography
newBeata es virgo Maria EMP1294 €3.50
SSATBB Scoring legend Marian Feasts ISMN M-2056-1294-8 
The 6- and 7-voice a capella motets of Gabrieli are among his loveliest, but are usually overshadowed by the large-scale pieces for voices and instruments. We are publishing all the small-scale pieces.
newCantate Domino EMP1306 €2.00
SAATTB Scoring legend Non-liturgical - Motet general ISMN M-2056-1306-8 
The 6- and 7-voice a capella motets of Gabrieli are among his loveliest, but are usually overshadowed by the large-scale pieces for voices and instruments. We are publishing all the small-scale pieces. This piece opens the 1597 collection: O sing unto the Lord a new song: look out, here is a new sort of music!
newExaudi Domine EMP1307 €2.00
SAATTB Scoring legend Penitential - Motet general ISMN M-2056-1307-5 
The 6- and 7-voice a capella motets of Gabrieli are among his loveliest, but are usually overshadowed by the large-scale pieces for voices and instruments. We are publishing all the small-scale pieces. This piece sets the first verse of Sp 16 (17).
newO magnum mysterium EMP1289 €3.50
SMABa ATTB Scoring legend Christmas - Respond ISMN M-2056-1289-4 
One of the best-known pieces of Giovanni Gabrieli, published in the 'Concerti di Andrea e Giovanni Gabrieli' of 1587. Its low second choir was probably performed with a solo falsettist and three sackbuts, but the piece is enirely in vocal clefs and a capella performance cannot be ruled out. This version includes an editorial organ continuo (single line).
newQuis est iste a 10 EMP1296 €6.50
TrSMAT ATBaBB Scoring legend Non-liturgical ISMN M-2056-1296-2 
The piece was conceived for two groups, each with a solo voice and instruments. Thus, the high choir (Secundus Chorus) would probably have had a solo Tenor and four high instruments (strings or cornets); the low choir (called ‘Primus Chorus’ because it sings first) a solo Altus (countertenor) and four low instruments, probably trombones, with a bass trombone or curtal on the lowest part. The Basso per l’organo was not included in the original print, the source is a manuscript partbook in Augsburg written out in 1636, which includes the 1587 Concerti as well as the 1597 collection. It combines text from Isaiah 63 and Psalm 24, and was possibly composed for an extra-liturgical celebration in connection with the Feast of the Precious Blood (July 1).
newSancta Maria succurre miseris EMP1295 €4.80
SAATTBB (bc) Scoring legend Marian Feasts ISMN M-2056-1295-5 
The 6- and 7-voice a capella motets of Gabrieli are among his loveliest, but are usually overshadowed by the large-scale pieces for voices and instruments. We are publishing all the small-scale pieces.
Gibbons, Orlando
Gibbons, Orlando (1583 - 1625) Show the biography
newLift up your heads O ye gates EMP1290 €2.00
SSAATB Scoring legend Advent - Psalm-Motet ISMN M-2056-1290-0 
Few Full Anthems of Gibbons survive. This is a magnificent piece suitable for Advent and general use. This version is set at the original pitch.
Hassler, Hans Leo
Hassler, Hans Leo (1562 - 1612) Show the biography
newDeus in nomine tuo EMP1304 €2.00
SATB Scoring legend General Use - Psalm-Motet ISMN M-2056-1304-4 
This is the first of the 4-voice pieces from Hassler’s great collection Sacri concentus of 1601 (an enlarged second edition was published in 1612). The text is a variant of Psalm 53 (54) which is often sung, for example on Maundy Thursday and Easter Saturday, and the opening verses frequently form Versicles or Verses.
newIte in universum mundum EMP1303 €2.00
SATB Scoring legend Ascension - Respond ISMN M-2056-1303-7 
This is one of the 4-voice pieces from Hassler’s great collection Sacri concentus of 1601 (an enlarged second edition was published in 1612). The text is a variant of a Responsory in Ascensiontide but I have not been able to find an exact liturgical match, nor does Hassler’s setting show any signs of being a Responsory. The text derives from Mark 16, 15 and 16.
newJubilate Deo a 5 EMP1293 €3.50
SSATB Scoring legend General Use - Psalm-Motet ISMN M-2056-1293-1 
This is one of several settings of Jubilate Deo by Hassler, for from 4 to 15 voices; this 5-voice setting was printed in his great collection Sacri Concentus of 1601.
newTu es Petrus EMP1305 €2.00
SATB Scoring legend SS Peter and Paul (June 29) - Motet general ISMN M-2056-1305-1 
This is one of the 5-voice pieces from Hassler’s Cantiones Sacrae, given here as found in the great collection Sacri concentus of 1601 (an enlarged second edition was published in 1612). The text is of course from Matthew 16.
Isaac, Heinrich (ca. 1450 - 1517) Show the biography
newChrist ist erstanden. This version is set a fourth lower than the original EMP1292 €2.00
SSATBB Scoring legend Easter - Motet general ISMN M-2056-1292-4 
newChrist ist erstanden. This version is set a third lower than the original EMP1291 €2.00
SSATBB Scoring legend Easter - Motet general ISMN M-2056-1291-7 
Monteverdi, Claudio
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567 - 1643) Show the biography
newMessa da cappella II (1650) EMP1298 €9.50
SATB Scoring legend General Use - Mass Ordinary ISMN M-2056-1298-6 
One of the two smaller-scale masses by Monteverdi, this one taken from the 'Messa et salmi' of 1650. Its original ad aequales cleffing TrMAT suggests downwards transposition of a fourth, see EMP 1100: this version is set only tone lower than the original.
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (ca. 1525 - 1594) Show the biography
newLamentations Book III (Good Friday) EMP1300 €3.50
SATTB Scoring legend Good Friday (Karfreitag) - Lesson (Lesung) ISMN M-2056-1300-6 
Die erste 'Lesung' für Matutin (Tenebrae) vom Karfreitag.
newLamentations Book III (Good Friday) EMP1301 €3.50
SATTB Scoring legend Good Friday (Karfreitag) - Lesson (Lesung) ISMN M-2056-1301-3 
Die zweite 'Lesung' für Matutin (Tenebrae) vom Karfreitag.
newLamentations Book III (Good Friday) EMP1302 €3.50
SSATTB Scoring legend Good Friday (Karfreitag) - Lesson (Lesung) ISMN M-2056-1302-0 
Die dritte 'Lesung' für Matutin (Tenebrae) vom Karfreitag.
newLamentations III (Fri.) EMP1299 €7.50
various Scoring legend Good Friday (Karfreitag) - Lesson (Lesung) ISMN M-2056-1299-3 
Die drei 'Lesungen' für Matutin (Tenebrae) vom Karfreitag: I Heth (SATTB), II Lamed (SATTB), III Aleph (SSATTB)
Walter, Johann (1496 - 1570) Show the biography
newDa pacem Domine EMP0035 €2.00
SATB Scoring legend Non-liturgical - Choral-Motet ISMN M-2056-0035-8 
One of two settings by Walter, both of which were also found with the German text 'Verleih uns Frieden'. Oddly cleffed for TrMTB, the piece could well be transposed down by as much as a 4th, and is available transposed on request.