Aliases: Mancicourt, Manchicurti
Life
Born: c. 1510, Béthune
Died: 5 October 1564, Madrid
Biography
The earliest known information indicates that in 1525 he was a choirboy at Arras. Subsequently, he held positions in Arras, Tours and Tournai. Ultimately, he went to Spain and became master of the Flemish chapel at the court of Philip II. He remained in that position until his death.
View the Wikipedia article on Pierre de Manchicourt .
List of choral works
Sacred works
Manchicourt wrote 19 surviving masses and 72 Latin motets. Sacred works hosted on CPDL are here listed automatically; Du fond de ma pensée/En dieu is a French paraphrase of Ps 130.
Below follows a longer list of works:
Accessit ad Jesum 5vv
Adorna thalamum 4vv
Audi filia 5vv
Audivi vocem 6vv
Ave stella matutina 5vv
Ave virgo Cecilia 4vv
Ave virgo gloriosa 4vv
Ave virgo prudentissima (contrafactum of Ave virgo Cecilia)
Benedic anima mea 4vv
Cantantibus organis 4vv
Caro mea vere est cibus 5vv
Congratulamini mihi omnes 5vv
Congratulamini mihi-Et beatam 5vv
De profundis 5vv
Dilectus meus descendit 4vv
Domine Jesu Christe 4vv
Domine non secundum peccatu 4vv
Domine peccavi 4vv
Dulcis mater 5vv
Ecce nos reliquimus 5vv
Ecce odor filii mei 4vv
Ego sum panis vivus , a 5vv
Emendemus in melius 5vv
Exaudiat te Dominus 5vv
Fundata est domus 5vv
Homo quidam fecit 6vv
In omnibus requiem 5vv
Interrogabat magos Herodes 5vv
Ite in orbem 5vv
Jubilate Deo 6vv
Laudate Dominum , a 6vv
Laudem dicite Deo nostro 5vv
Lux de coelo 4vv
Magnificat secondi toni 4/5vv
Maria Magdalene 5vv
Media via 4vv
Missa Ceste une dure departie 4vv (Parody of |Sermisy's chanson)]]
Missa Congratulamini 4vv
Missa Cuides vous que Dieu 5vv (Parody of |Richafort's chanson)]]
Missa de Requiem , a 5vv
Missa de Retourner 4vv
Missa Deus in adjutorum, a 4vv
Missa Domina Virgine Maria 5vv
Missa Ego flos campi, 4vv (parody of Le Heurteur's motet)
Missa Gris et tannet 4/5vv (parody of Sermisy's chanson)
Missa Nisi Dominus 4vv (on Lhéritier's motet)
Missa Noe noe 4/6vv (parody of Mouton's motet)
Missa Non conturbetur 4vv (parody of Manchicourts's motet)
Missa Povre cuer 4vv (parody of anon. chanson 1529)
Missa Quo abiit dilectus tuus 4/5vv (parody of Manchicourts's motet)
Missa Reges terrae a 4/5vv (parody of Mouton's motet)
Missa Reges terre a 6 (parody of Manchicourts's motet)
Missa Se dire je losoie 4vv (parody of Gombert's chanson)
Missa Surge et illuminare 4vv
Missa Veni Sancte Spiritus 6vv (paraphrase of the Sequence)
Ne derelinquas me Domini 4vv
Ne reminiscaris Domini 4vv
Nil pace est melius 5vv
Non conturbetur 4vv
Nunc enim si centum 4vv
O bone Jesu 4vv
O crux splendidior a 5vv
O crux splendidior 5vv
O crux viridae lignum 5vv
O decus 5vv
O Emanuel 4vv
O intemerata-O virgo gloriosa 4vv
O intemerata, a 6vv
O Thoma didyme 5vv
O Virgo Virginum a 6
Osculetur me 6vv
Paratum cor meum 4vv
Pater peccavi 4vv
Pater peccavi 5vv
Peccata mea Domine 5vv
Peccantem me quotidie 4vv
Plaudite ergo a 6vv
Proba me Domine 4vv
Puer qui natus es 5vv
Quae est ista 6vv
Quo abiit 4vv
Quousque Domine 5vv
Recordare Domine 5vv
Reges terrae , a 6vv
Regina caeli laetare. a 6vv
Si bona suscepimus 5vv
Super montem excelsum 4vv
Sustinuimus pace 6vv
Tanto tempore 5vv
Tota pulcra es 6vv
Usquequo piger dormies a 4vv
Veniat dilectus meus 6vv
Vere Dominus 5vv
Vias tuas Domine demonstra mihi 4vv
Vidi speciosam, a 8vv
Secular works
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Publications
Tielman Susato published 29 of Manchicourt's chansons as Le neufiesme livre des chansons a quarter parties (1545). Another 24 chansons appear in various collections.
External links
Works by Pierre de Manchicourt in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)