Cantionum sacrarum liber 5 (Pierre de Manchicourt)

General description

Title: LIBER QUINTUS CAN- / TIONUM SACRARUM VULGO / MOTETA VOCANT, QUINQUE ET SEX VOCUM A D. / Magistro Petro Manchicurtio Betunio insignis ecclesie Thornacensis Pho- / nasco nunc primum in lucem editus.

Publication date and place: 1554 by Pierre Phalèse, Louvain (Leuven) [RISM A/I M272]. Reprinted in 1558 [M273] and 1560 [M274].
Description: 14 bi-partite motets by Pierre de Manchicourt for 5–6vv, published during the composer’s tenure at Tournai Cathedral (‘Thornacensis’). This is Phalèse’s only book of motets dedicated to the works of a single composer. This volume is the earliest surviving source of all 14 motets; those that appear in later printed sources are marked (°) below, and those that appear later handcopied sources are marked (^).

List of works

for five voices:

1. O decus, O patrie lux (2.p. Salve, pontificum)

2. In omnibus requiem (2.p. Et radicavi in populo)

3. Exaudiat te Dominus (2.p. Impleat Dominus)

4. ^ Si bona suscepimus (2.p. Tribularer si nescirem)

5. ° O crux splendidior (2.p. Nobile lignum exalta)

6. Congratulamini mihi (2.p. Et beatam me dicent)

7. ^ Puer qui natus est (2.p. Hic praecursor dilectus)

8. O crux viride lignum (2.p. Salus omnium populorum)

9. °^ Emendemus in melius (2.p. Peccavimus cum patribus)

for six voices

10. ^ Audivi vocem de caelo (2.p. Et vox de throno)

11. Tota pulchra es, amica mea (2.p. Flores apparuerunt)

12. Osculetur me (2.p. Trahe me post te)

13. Quae est ista quae ascendit (2.p. Ista est speciosa)

14. ^ Illuminare, Jerusalem (2.p. Filii tui de longe venient)

Works at CPDL

No.	Title	Year	Genre	Subgenre	Vo.	Voices
4	Si bona suscepimus	1554	Sacred	Motets	5	SAATB
5	O crux splendidior	1554	Sacred	Motets	5	SSATB
6	Congratulamini mihi — Et beatam me dicent	1554	Sacred	Motets	5	SAATB
9	Emendemus in melius	1554	Sacred	Motets	5	SAATB, STTTB, ATTTB
10	Audivi vocem de caelo	1554	Sacred	Motets	6	SAATTB, SATTTB
11	Tota pulchra es, amica mea	1554	Sacred	Motets	6	SSATBB
12	Osculetur me	1554	Sacred	Motets	6	SSATBB, SSATTB
13	Quae est ista quae ascendit	1554	Sacred	Motets	6	SSATBB
14	Illuminare, Jerusalem	1554	Sacred	Motets	6	SAATBB, STTBBB

External websites

Corresponding page at IMSLP.