A concise anthology including a wide range of Renaissance music.
Anthology for Music in the Renaissance, part of the Western Music in Context series, is the ideal companion to Music in the Renaissance. Twenty-seven carefully chosen worksincluding an isorhythmic motet by Ciconia, an English carol, a Janequin chanson, and lute composition by Ortizoffer representative examples of the genres and composers of the period. Commentaries following each score present a careful analysis of the music, and online links to purchase and download recordings make listening easier than ever.
Luca Marenzio, Liquide perle
Johannes Ciconia, Doctorum principem
Thomas Morley, Miraculous loves wounding
Guillaume Du Fay, Par le regart
Antoine Busnoys, Ja que li ne si attende
Jacob Obrecht, Missa de Sancto Donatiano, Kyrie
John Dunstable, Quam pulchra es
Anonymous, There is no rose
Guillaume Du Fay, Supremum est mortalibus
Guillaume Du Fay, Missa Lhomme armé, Agnus Dei
Josquin des Prez, Missa Lhomme armé super voces musicales, Kyrie
John Wilbye, Draw on, sweet Night
Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Ostinato vo seguire
Josquin des Prez, Ave Maria . . . virgo serena
Josquin des Prez (?), Mille regrets
Clément Janequin, Martin menoit
Jacques Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce cigno
Adrian Willaert, Madonna mia famme bonofferta
William Byrd, Ave verum corpus
Jean Lhéritier, Nigra sum
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Nigra sum: Credo
Thomas Tallis, Why fumeth in sight
Giovanni Bassano, Divisions on Orlando di Lasso, Susane un jour
Diego Ortiz, Recercada ottava
Fabrizio Dentice, Fantasia
Claudio Monteverdi, Sfogava con le stelle
Carlo Gesualdo, O vos omnes, from Tenebrae for Holy Week
Richard Freedman is John C. Whitehead Professor of Humanities at Haverford College. His writings include a book, The Chansons of Orlando di Lasso and Their Protestant Listeners: Music, Piety, and Print in Sixteenth-Century France, and articles in numerous publications, including The Musical Quarterly, Music and Letters, and The New Grove Dictionary of Music. He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation. Walter Frisch is H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Brahms: The Four Symphonies, The Early Works of Arnold Schoenberg 19031908, and German Modernism: Music and the Arts. He is the recipient of two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
