The Chigi codex is a music manuscript originating in Flanders. According to Herbert Kellman, it was created sometime between 1498 and 1503, probably at the behest of Philip I of Castile. It is currently housed in the Vatican Library under the call number Chigiana, C. VIII. 234. The Chigi codex is notable not only for its vivid and colorful illuminations, which were probably done in Ghent in the workshop of the Master of the

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, but also for its very clear and legible

musical notation Music notation or musical notation is any system used to visually represent aurally perceived music played with instruments or sung by the human voice through the use of written, printed, or otherwise-produced symbols, including notation fo ...

. It contains a nearly complete catalogue of the

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masses by Johannes Ockeghem and a collection of five relatively early

L'homme armé "L'homme armé" (French for "the armed man") is a secular song from the Late Middle Ages, of the Burgundian School. According to Allan W. Atlas, "the tune circulated in both the Mixolydian mode and Dorian mode (transposed to G)." It was the most p ...

mass settings, including Ockeghem's. Several folia, comprising eight works, were added to the original

codex The codex (plural codices ) was the historical ancestor of the modern book. Instead of being composed of sheets of paper, it used sheets of vellum, papyrus, or other materials. The term ''codex'' is often used for ancient manuscript books, with ...

at some point after the manuscript's original creation. These are indicated as such in the list below. The two coats of arms in the page from ''Missa Ecce ancilla Domini'' refer to the Fernández de Córdoba family. A facsimile of the Chigi Codex in seven parts is available to view online, in the International Music Scores Library Project, or IMSLP. The Petrucci Music Library/IMSLP is run by Project Petrucci LLC in the U.S.A.The IMSLP web site refers: http://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:About

The manuscript contains the following works (this list is distilled from that found in Kellman's article): * Alexander Agricola **Missa In myne zyn (without Kyrie) * Antoine Brumel **Missa L'homme armé * Antoine Busnois **Missa L'homme armé * Antoine de Févin **Sancta Trinitas unus Deus (addition) * Gaspar van Weerbeke **Stabat mater * Heinrich Isaac **Angeli archangeli *

Jacobus Barbireau Jacobus Barbireau (also Jacques or Jacob; also Barbirianus) (1455 – 7 August 1491) was a Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer from Antwerp. He was considered to be a superlative composer both by his contemporaries and by modern scholars; howeve ...

**Missa Virgo parens Christi (without Agnus Dei) * Jean Mouton **Quis dabit oculis (addition; no attribution) * Johannes Ockeghem **Ave Maria (addition) **Intemerata Dei Mater **Missa Mi-mi **Missa Ecce ancilla Domini **Missa L'homme armé **Missa Fors seulement (Kyrie, Gloria and Credo only) **Missa sine nomine (Kyrie, Gloria and Credo only) **Missa Ma maistresse (Kyrie and Gloria) **Missa Caput **Missa De plus en plus **Missa Au travail suis ** Missa cuiusvis toni **Missa Prolationum **Missa quinti toni **Missa pro defunctis * Johannes Regis **Celsi tonantis **Clangat plebs **Lauda Sion Salvatorem **Lux solempnis (no attribution) **O admirabile commercium *

Josquin des Prez Josquin Lebloitte dit des Prez ( – 27 August 1521) was a composer of High Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he was a central figure of the ...

**Missa L'homme armé sexti toni (Kyrie, Gloria and Credo only) **Stabat mater * Loyset Compère **Ave Maria (addition) **Missa L'homme armé **Sancte Michael ora pro nobis (addition; no attribution) **Sile frago ac rerum (no attribution) * Pierre de la Rue **Credo Sine nomine **Missa Almana *Anonymous works **Ave rosa speciosa **Regina coeli (addition) **Vidi aquam (addition) **one

motet 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 pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to Margar ...

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