Description
Dering, Richard: Motets and Anthems
Ref
MB98
Categories
Choral Music
,
Collected Editions
,
Musica Britannica
By
Richard Dering
Edited by Jonathan Wainwright
First published in 2015
Pages: 176
Format: Hardback
Dimensions (mm): 330 x 254 x 19
Weight: 1.209kg
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.
Any individual work from this volume is available in printed or digital (PDF) format on request (
[email protected]
).
