Missarum liber primus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
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General information
Title: Missarum liber primus
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Publication date and place: 1554 in Rome by Valerio and Aloysio Dorico.
Known editions: reprinted in 1572 (Rome: heirs of Aloysio Dorico), 1581 (Brescia: Tomaso Bozzola), 1591 (Rome: Alessandro Gardano), & 1596 (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Description: Palestrina's first book of masses with four for four voices and one for five voices. The 1591 reprint added two more, for five and six voices.
Facsimile: Bavarian State Library
List of works
Quatuor vocibus
- 1. Missa Ecce sacerdos magnus (tenor mass)
- 2. Missa O Regem celi (parody of Andreas De Silva's motet)
- 3. Missa Virtute magna (parody of Mathieu Lasson's motet)
- 4. Missa Gabriel archangelus (parody of Philippe Verdelot's motet)
Quinque vocibus
- 5. Missa Ad coenam Agni providi (paraphrase)
Added to 1591 print:
- 6. Missa sine nomine a 6/Beata Dei genetrix 6vv (parody of anon.)
- 7. Missa pro defunctis 5vv. (paraphrase)
Works at CPDL
| Title | Year | Composer | No. | Genre | Subgenre | Vo. | Voices |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Missa Ad coenam Agni providi | 1554 | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | 5 | Sacred | Masses | 5 6 |
SAATB SAATBB |
| Missa Ecce sacerdos magnus | 1554 | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | 1 | Sacred | Masses | 4 | SATB,ATTB |
| Missa Gabriel archangelus | 1554 | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | 4 | Sacred | Masses | 4 6 |
SATB SAATTB |
| Missa O Regem coeli | 1554 | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | 2 | Sacred | Masses | 4/5 | SATB |
| Missa Virtute magna | 1554 | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | 3 | Sacred | Masses | 4/5 | SATB |