The ''Sacrae Cantiones'' of

Carlo Gesualdo Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (between 8 March 1566 and 30 March 1566 – 8 September 1613) was an Italian nobleman and composer. Though both the Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, he is better known for writing madrigals and pieces of sacred ...

da Venosa are two collections of

motets In Western classical music, a motet is mainly a vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval music to the present. The motet was one of the preeminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to the Engl ...

published in 1603. The first volume consists of 19 motets for 5 voices, the second volume of 20 motets for 6 or 7 voices. The bassus and sextus (sixth part) of the second volume are lost, but were reconstructed by musicologist James Wood from 2008 to 2011 and recorded by Wood's Vocalconsort Berlin in August 2011.

Motet list

Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus Liber primus, Napoli, Costantino Vitale, 1603 # O vos omnes # Domine, ne despicias deprecationem meam # Sancti Spiritus, Domine # Exaudi, Deus, deprecationem meam # Venit lumen tuum # Illumina faciem tuam # Maria, Mater gratiae # Precibus et meritis # Ave, dulcissima Maria # Dignare me laudare te #Ave Regina cœlorum #Hei mihi Domine #Tribulationem et dolorem #Peccantem me quotidie #Reminiscere miserationum tuarum #Tribularer si nescirem #Laboravi in gemitu meo #Deus, refugium et virtus #O Crux benedicta Sacrarum cantionum liber primus, 1603 - in fact Liber secundus # Ad te levavi #Adoramus te Christe #Ardens est cor meum #Assumpta est Maria #Ave sanctissima Maria #Da pacem Domine #Discedite a me omnes #Franciscus humilis et pauper #Gaudeamus omnes #Illumina nos #Ne derelinquas me #O anima sanctissima #O beata Mater #O oriens splendor #O sacrum convivium #Sana me Domine #Veni Creator Spiritus #Veni sponsa Christi #Verba mea #Virgo benedicta

Editions

* Eight songs of the Sacrae Cantiones arranged/completed by

Theo Verbey Theo Verbey (5 July 1959 – 13 October 2019) was a Dutch people, Dutch composer. His style could be considered to be associated with Postmodern music. Verbey was also orchestrated Alban Berg's Piano Sonata (Berg), Piano Sonata, Op. 1 in 1984 w ...

in 2005.

Recordings

* Book 1 Odhecaton, Ensemble Mare Nostrum dir. Paolo Da Col 2013 * Book 2 Vocalconsort Berlin, dir. James Wood 2011

References

{{Authority control 1603 works Compositions by Carlo Gesualdo