Musica quatuor vocum liber primus (Nicolas Gombert)

General Information

Full Title: Musica quatuor vocum, (vulgo motecta nuncupatur), lyris maioribus, ac tibijs imparibus accomodata, liber primus

Description: Nicolas Gombert's first book of motets for four voices

Publications using VolumesEditions

1 – Published 1539 – Venice: Scotto, reprinted 1541 (Venice: Gardano)

2 – Published 1541 – Venice: Scotto; this edition includes several compositions by other composers, replacing works by Gombert

3 – Published 1551 – Venice: Gardano; this edition contains two pieces by other composers

Facsimiles:

First edition: [Bavarian State Library]

Second edition: [Bavarian State Library] (Alto and Tenor only)

Third edition: [Bavarian State Library]

List of Works

1st ed. No.	2nd ed. No.	3rd ed. No.	Title	Composer	Voices	Comment
1	1	1	Domine pater, et deus vite mee	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
2	2	2	Miserere pie Jesu	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
3	3	14	Venite filii audite me	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
4		16	Dicite in magni dum spes altera mundi	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
5		18	Ecce nunc tempus acceptabile	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
6	6	7	O gloriosa Dei genitrix	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
7	7		Ave Regina caelorum	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
8	8		Virgo prudentissima	Nicolas Gombert	SATB	attributed elsewhere to Nicolas Payen
9	9	4	Salvum me fac Domine	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
10		8	Duo rogavi	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
11	23		Levavi oculos meos	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
12	18	26	Saluto te sancta virgo	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
13		23	Quae est ista	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
14	13	19	O gloriosa domina dei genitrix	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
15		24	Super flumina Babylonis	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
16	14		Inter natos mulierum	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
17	15		Quam pulchra es et quam decora	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
18	16	20	Ave sanctissima Maria	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
19			Fuit homo missus a deo	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
20		10	Aspice Domine	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
21		21	Dignare me laudare te	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
22		28	Fidelium deus omnium	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
23	24	12	Domine, si tu es	Nicolas Gombert	SATB
	4		Inclina Domine I	Cristóbal de Morales	SATB
	5		In illlo tempore dixit Jesus discipulis suis	Girolamo Scotto	SATB
	10		Sancta et immaculata	Cristóbal de Morales	SATB
	11		Sancte Antoni pater monachorum	Cristóbal de Morales	SATB
	12		Antequam comedam suspiro	Cristóbal de Morales	SATB
	17		Peccata mea Domine	Girolamo Scotto	SATB
	19		Parce mea Domine	Ivo Barry	SATB
	20		Ego infelix peccator	Ivo Barry	SATB
	21		Nos pueri tibi principi	Jacquet de Mantua	SATB
	22		Exurge quare obdormis domine	Bartolomé de Escobedo	SATB
		6	Virgo prudentissima	Nicolas Payen	SATB
		29	Ave regina celorum	Anonymous	SATB

Works at CPDL

Edition 1 (1539)

Title	Year	No.	Composer	Lyricist	Genre	Subgenre	Voices
Quae est ista	1539	13	Nicolas Gombert		Sacred	Motets	SATB
Miserere pie Jesu	1539	2	Nicolas Gombert		Sacred	Motets	SATB
Virgo prudentissima	1539	8	Nicolas Payen		Sacred	Motets	ATTB
Dignare me laudare te	1532	21	Nicolas Gombert		Sacred	Motets	ATTB
Fidelium Deus omnium	1532	22	Nicolas Gombert		Sacred	Motets	ATTB
Saluto te sancta virgo Maria	1539	12	Nicolas Gombert		Sacred	Motets	ATTB

Edition 2 (1541)

Title	Year	No.	Composer	Lyricist	Genre	Subgenre	Voices
Sancta et immaculata	1541	10	Cristóbal de Morales		Sacred	Motets	SATB
Inclina Domine I	1541	4	Cristóbal de Morales		Sacred	Motets	SATB
Antequam comedam suspiro	1541	12	Cristóbal de Morales		Sacred	Motets	SATB
Nos pueri tibi principi	1541	21	Jacquet de Mantua		Sacred	Motets	AATB
Miserere pie Jesu	1539	2	Nicolas Gombert		Sacred	Motets	SATB
Virgo prudentissima	1539	8	Nicolas Payen		Sacred	Motets	ATTB

Edition 3 (1551)

Title	Year	No.	Composer	Lyricist	Genre	Subgenre	Voices
Dignare me laudare te	1532	21	Nicolas Gombert		Sacred	Motets	ATTB
Miserere pie Jesu	1539	2	Nicolas Gombert		Sacred	Motets	SATB
Fidelium Deus omnium	1532	28	Nicolas Gombert		Sacred	Motets	ATTB