Scoring summary: V (4)
Subject: Sacred songs
Scoring: V (4)
Original Title: QUATUOR VOCUM | Musicae modulationes numero | XXVI. EX OPTIMIS AUTORIBUS DILIGENTER | selectae, prorsus novae, atque typis hactenus non excusae. | DISCANTUS, | Vox ego prima, locum mihi dat Symphonia summum, | Contingo astrigerum cantu sublimis Olympum. | Cum Gratia & Privilegio.
Material:
  • Source type:
    Source type: Print
    Content type: Notated music
    Date:
    1542
    Publishing, printing and production information:
    Place: Antwerpen Willem van Vissenaecken 1542 01
    Publisher, copyist: Willem van Vissenaecken
  • Source type:
    Source type: Print
    Content type: Notated music
    Date:
    1542
    Publishing, printing and production information:
    Place: Antwerpen Willem van Vissenaecken 1542 01
    Publisher, copyist: Willem van Vissenaecken
Notes: 4 vols., each of 48 fols.
All the part books have the same title page, except for the couplet following the part designation. In the contratenor part book, the couplet reads “Altior incedens, primae sum proxima Voci, / Discurrens inter mediamque interque supremam.” In the tenor part book, the couplet reads “Vox media, é tremulo proficiscor gutture, totus / Me circumudit vario modulamine cantus.” In the bassus part book, the couplet reads, “Ima ego vox, imo producta é pectore, firma / Ceu basis reliquas sustento ac tempero voces.”
On fol. 2 of each part book: Table of contents. On fol. 48v of the superius, contratenor, and bassus part books: colophon reading “ANTVERPIAE, Apud Guilielmum / Vissenacum. Anno humanae / salutis, D. M. XLII.”
On fol. 48' of the tenor part book: colophon reading “ANTVERPIAE APUD GUILIELMUM / Vissenacum. Anno M. D. XLII.”
On fol. 1v of the tenor part book, foreword headed “DIVINAE MUSICES / Cultoribus S.”
For further information, see EitnerB 1877.
RISM series: B/I
External Links: Early Music Online
Bibliographic reference: 1542c
Open all / Close all
Austria
Library (siglum):
United Kingdom
Library (siglum):
External Links: [bibliographic record]

RISM ID no.: 993104346
Last update: May 2, 2024