Mariae cantica vulgo magnificat dictâ.

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Standardised Title	Mariae cantica vulgo magnificat dictâ.
Transcribed Title	MARIAE / CANTICA VVLGO / MAGNIFICAT dictâ: / Psalmata octo tetraphona,per / Christophorum Moralem, / aliosqué Musicos. / ADIECTA TONORVM OCTO / singulorum Symphona isometra cantus,per quatuor / voces Harmonia,ad Psalmum quemlibet / accommodabili.
Date	1550
Imprint	Impressum LVGDVNI Per Iacobum Modernum/ Mil. D. L.
Format	Copy at K.9.a.10. 34 leaves; original foliation: [1] 2-31 [32-34] f.; paper dimensions: 370 x 265 mm; the copy is so closely cropped that signature numbers at the bottom and titles and folio numbers at the top are often lost.
Place	Lyon, France
Subject	Magnificat (Music)
Language	Latin
Type	Printed music
Source	British Library K.9.a.10.
Related Resource	Samuel .F. Pogue, Jacques Moderne, Lyons Music Printer of the Sixteenth Century (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1969), pp.200-201.

Identifiers

RISM B/I, 1550⁴

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The pieces are magnificats on each of the eight tones. The Isometron gives the first verse of the magnificat in each of the eight tones. The Primi Toni Magnificat contains a ‘Canon in subdyathessaron’, Secondi Toni Magnificat contains a ‘Canon in Diapazon’. The Tertij Toni Magnificat’s ‘Sicut erat in principio’ is in six parts with a ‘Canon Tu me Sequere in subdyapente’. The Sexti Toni Magnificat’s ‘Sicut erat in principio’ is in six parts. The Septimus Toni Magnificat’s ‘Sicut erat in principio’ has a ‘Canon in subdiathessaron’ in a cantus secundus part. The ‘Sicut erat in principio’ of the Octavi Toni Magnificat is a ‘Canon in diapenthe’.

With a woodcut of the visitation on the verso of the first leaf.

Indexed names

Cristobal de Morales, ca 1500-1553, composer.
Jacquet, of Mantua, 1483-1559, composer.
Jean Richafort fl. 1507-1548, composer.
Jacques Moderne fl. 1523-1544, printer.

Table of Contents

Primi Toni / Morales -- Secundi Toni / Morales -- Tertij Toni / Jacquet -- Quarti Toni / Morales -- Quinti Toni / Richafort -- Sexti Toni / Morales -- Septimi Toni / Morales -- Octavi Toni / Jacquet – Isometron / [Anon] [in the index: Isometra symphona ad psalmum quemlibet accommodabilis].