With the completion in this volume of the corpus of Richard Dering’s vocal music available in modern scholarly editions, we are now in a position to acknowledge fully his contribution to seventeenth-century music.
The contents include his entire sacred output in English (none of which was published in his lifetime): two verse anthems, two contrafacta, and one sacred song.
There are also 18 motets for five voices and continuo.
These Cantiones Sacrae, printed in Antwerp in 1617 by the Flemish publisher Pierre Phalèse the younger, are more typical of the impassioned Counter-Reformation motet style of Giovanni Gabrieli, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, and another émigré Catholic composer working in the Low Countries at the time, Peter Philips.
CONTENTS:
Almighty God, which through thy only-begotten son
And the King was moved
Anima Christi sanctifica me
Ave Maria, gratia plena
Ave verum corpus
Ave virgo gratiosa / gloriosa
Contristatus est Rex David
Desidero te millies (Secunda pars of ‘Jesu dulcedo cordium’)
Dixit Agnes gloriosa
In lectulo meo
Indica mihi
Jesu decus angelicum
Jesu dulcedo cordium
Jesu dulcis memoria
Jesu summa benignitas
Lord, thou art worthy (Contrafactum of ‘O nomen Jesu’)
O bone Jesu
O nomen Jesu (Secunda pars of ‘O bone Jesu’)
Omnem super quem videritis
Quae est ista
Quando cor nostrum visitas
Therefore with Angels and Archangels (Contrafactum of ‘O nomen Jesu’)
Unto thee, O Lord
Vidi speciosam
Vox in Rama audita est
Pages: 176
Format: Hardback
Dimensions (mm): 330 x 254 x 19