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The Sacred Works of Jachet Berchem
ed. Marnix van Berchum

The Flemish composer Jachet Berchem (c. 1505-c. 1567) is known today as a pioneer in Italian secular musical forms, having passed the entirety of his known active career first in the Veneto and then in Puglia. A small but important set of masses and motets, however, is also the product of his pen. These works are here edited for the first time, revealing a first-rate master of the dense imitative polyphony current in the mid-16th century.


Contents

Compositions
Sources
Introduction

Edited Compositions

No. Title Composer
1
2
3
4
5

To be edited

Title Composer

Sources

No. Abbrev. Full Siglum
1
Berlin, Former Preussische Staatsbibliothek, MS Mus. 40175
2
Bologna, Archivio Musicale della Fabbriceria di San Petronio, MS I.XXV
3
Casale Monferrato, Archivio e Biblioteca Capitolare, Duomo. MS C
4
Coimbra, Biblioteca Geral da Universidade, MS M. 9
5
Milan, Biblioteca del Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, MS Santa Barbara 153
6
Piacenza, Archivio del Duomo, Fondo Musicale, MS s.s. (1)
7
Stockholm, Kungliga Bibliothek, MS Holm. S 229:1-2
8
Toledo, Biblioteca Capitular de la Catedral Metropolitana, MS. 28
9
Treviso, Biblioteca Capitolare del Duomo, MS 8
10
Motetti del frutto a sei voci (Venice, 1539)
11
Moteti de la Simia (Ferrara, 1539)
12
Quinque missae liber primus cum quinque vocibus (Venice, 1540)
13
Sex missae cum quinque vocibus (Venice, 1542)
14
Adriani Willaert musicorum sex vocum. Liber primus (Venice, 1542)
15
Liber primus missarum sex. (Venice, 1544)
16
Liber primus missarum quinque (Venice, 1544)
17
Quinque missarum (Venice, 1547)
18
Fructus liber primus cum sex vocibus (Venice, 1549)
19
Quartus tomus evangeliorum (Nuremberg, 1555)
20
Novum et insigne opus musicum (Nuremberg, 1558)
21
Motetti di Iachet da Mantoa a cinque voci, libro secondo (Venice, 1565)


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