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| Adoramus te Domine Jesu Christe | EMP0514 | €2.00 |
SSATTB
Easter - Motet general
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ISMN M-2056-0514-8 | |
| A setting of a text derived from the Testament of St. Francis of Assisi (1226), suitable for Eastertide or for feasts of Holy Cross. The use of intermediate clefs (here Mezzosoprano) is typical for Merulo's second book of motets. | ||
| Audi Domine hymnum | EMP0515 | €2.00 |
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SAATTB
Dedication of a Church - Motet general
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ISMN M-2056-0515-5 | |
| A splendid declamatory and rhythmically complex piece - also suitable for the season following Pentecost. The piece is in high clefs and is usually offered transposed down a fourth, as here, or down a tone. | ||
| Audi Domine hymnum | EMP1037 | €2.00 |
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Dedication of a Church - Motet general
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ISMN M-2056-1037-1 | |
| A splendid declamatory and rhythmically complex piece - also suitable for the season following Pentecost. The piece is in high clefs and is usually offered transposed down a tone, as here, or down a fourth. | ||
| Ave Maria...O Mater Dei | EMP1095 | €2.00 |
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SATTB
General Use - Motet general
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ISMN M-2056-1095-1 | |
| One of several new pieces by Merulo which we are publishing for the International Academy of Sacred Music 2010 in Venice. The text is an unusual variant of the standard one, mainly found in Italian uses, whose liturgical function seems to have been following the Pater noster before the Office: it was also set by Donato. | ||
| Beata viscera Mariae Virginis | EMP0516 | €2.00 |
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SMATTB
Marian Feasts - Communion
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ISMN M-2056-0516-2 | |
| A beautiful setting of the familiar Marian piece, originally cleffed TrSMAABa. It is usually offered transposed down a tone or down a fourth. | ||
| Benedicite spiritus | EMP0517 | €2.00 |
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SSATTB
General Use - Motet general
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ISMN M-2056-0517-9 | |
| A setting of verses from the Benedicite originally cleffed TrTrMAABa. It is usually offered transposed down a tone or down a fourth. | ||
| Bonum est confiteri Domino | EMP0780 | €2.00 |
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SSAATTB
Lent - Respond
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ISMN M-2056-0780-7 | |
| Revised edition 2008. | ||
| Bonus est confiteri Domino | EMP0736 | €2.00 |
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SSAATTB
Lent - Respond
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ISMN M-2056-0736-4 | |
| Sung in the first week of Lent, this is a lovely setting of verses from Psalm 91. | ||
| Cantate Domino | EMP0518 | €3.50 |
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SSMATBaF5
General Use - Motet general - Ed. Keith Bennett |
ISMN M-2056-0518-6 | |
| A powerful setting of the familiar text from Ps. 95. An unusual but typically Venetian scoring, combining vocal clefs with a very low instrumental bass line, originally probably a dulcian. Our edition is available at original pitch or a tone higher, bringing the lowest part almost into the Bass vocal range! | ||
| Dominus illumination mea | EMP0786 | €2.00 |
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SMATBaBB
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ISMN M-2056-0786-9 | |
| Ecce Maria genuit | EMP0519 | €3.50 |
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SSAATBB
Christmas - Antiphon
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ISMN M-2056-0519-3 | |
| One of several pieces for seven voices in Merulo's Second Book of Motets. The text is a Vesper Antiphon on Christmas Day and its Octave, also for the Purification and in the Office of BVM. It refers to John Baptist seeing Christ and exclaiming: Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world. It ends with a splendid triple-time Alleluia. | ||
| Ego sum panis | EMP0289 | €2.00 |
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SATTB
Marian Feasts - Motet general
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ISMN M-2056-0289-5 | |
| A motet from Sacrae Cantiones, 1578: originally for Corpus Christi, very suitable for Communion: it has a wonderfully open texture with long melismatic lines, and a beautiful final Alleluia. A high clef piece usually offered down a fourth but available at various pitches. | ||
| Exaudi Domine | EMP0781 | €3.50 |
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SSATTBB
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ISMN M-2056-0781-4 | |
| Exaudi me Domine | EMP0730 | €2.00 |
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SMATTB
Ash Wednesday
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ISMN M-2056-0730-2 | |
| This is a setting of Ps 68, 17-19, which does not appear to have a specific liturgical function. However, the first part of the text, in the variant Exaudi nos Domine...respice nos Domine is the Antiphon for the blessing of ashes before Mass on Ash Wednesday. . | ||
| Hei mihi Domine | EMP0520 | €2.00 |
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SMATTBB
Penitential - Motet general
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ISMN M-2056-0520-9 | |
| One of several pieces for seven voices in Merulo's Second Book of Motets. The text clearly relates to Savonarola's famous commentary on the Miserere (Ps. 51) | ||
| Jubilate Deo | EMP0778 | €2.00 |
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SSATB
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ISMN M-2056-0778-4 | |
| Laetabimur in salutari tuo | EMP0779 | €2.00 |
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SAATBaB
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ISMN M-2056-0779-1 | |
| Magna enim sunt iudicia tua | EMP1077 | €2.00 |
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SAATTB
Summer - Respond
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ISMN M-2056-1077-7 | |
| One of several new pieces by Merulo which we are publishing for the International Academy of Sacred Music 2010 in Venice. The text is a Respond in August, and thus occupies a somewhat obscure place in the liturgy. It could well be political in origin. 'For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy words cannot be expressed: For thou didst magnify thy people, O Lord, and didst honour them.' Wisdom 17, 1; 19,20 | ||
| O adoranda Trinitas | EMP0290 | €2.00 |
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Holy Trinity - Motet general
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ISMN M-2056-0290-1 | |
| The text of this lovely piece is a variant of a Hymn (Chevalier II, 174, no. 12634) for the Feast of Holy Trinity. It shares with 'Ego sum panis' from the same collection (Sacrae Cantiones, 1578) an openness of texture and a melismatic style, here combined with telling use of late Renaissance semi-homophony. A high clef piece usually offered down a fourth but available at various pitches. | ||
| O altitudo divitiarum | EMP0521 | €3.50 |
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Holy Trinity - Motet general
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ISMN M-2056-0521-6 | |
| One of several pieces for seven voices in Merulo's Second Book of Motets. The text from Rom. 11 occurs liturgically as a reading on the Feast of the Holy Trinity. Merulo's setting includes a wonderfully syncopated treatment of the word 'investigabiles' (inscrutable!). | ||
