Jacques Moderne

Aliases: Jacobus Modernus, Giacomo Moderno de Pinguento, Grand Jaques

Life

Born: c. 1495, Pinguente, Istria

Died: after 1560, Lyons

Biography Jacques Moderne was a printer, based in Lyons from the 1520s until his death. His books of music were printed from 1532 onward, following and rivalling those of Pierre Attaingnant in Paris.

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Publications

Masses

• Liber decem missarum, 1532

Motteti del Fiore

• Primus liber cum quatuor vocibus, 1532
• Secundus liber cum quatuor vocibus, 1532
• Tertius liber cum quatuor vocibus, 1539
• Quartus liber cum quatuor vocibus, 1539

Motets for Five, Six, or Seven Voices

• book 1 lost
• Secundus liber cum quinque vocibus, 1532
• Tertius liber mottetorum ad quinque et sex voces, 1538
• Quartus liber mottetorum ad quinque et sex voces, 1539
• Quintus liber mottetorum ad quinque et sex et septem voces, 1542

Le Parangon des Chansons

• Le Parangon des chansons, livre 1, 1538
• Le Parangon des chansons, livre 2, 1538
• Le Parangon des chansons, livre 3, 1538
• Le Parangon des chansons, livre 4, 1538
• Le Parangon des chansons, livre 5, 1539
• Le Parangon des chansons, livre 6, 1540
• Le Parangon des chansons, livre 7, 1540
• Le Parangon des chansons, livre 8, 1541
• Le Parangon des chansons, livre 9, 1541
• Le Parangon des chansons, livre 10, 1543
• livre 11 lost

Le Difficile des Chansons

• Le Difficile des chansons, livre 1, 1540 – all works by Clément Janequin
• Le Difficile des chansons, livre 2, 1544

Other Sacred

• Harmonidos ariston, tricolon, ogdoameron, 1547
• Mariae cantica vulgo Magnificat dicta, 1550