4 sacred villanescas by Francisco Guerrero (Score)

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Instruments: Choir
Ensembles: + 6 Voices
Genres: Classical Music
Period: Renaissance Music
Formats: Conductor Score

Musicological reviser

Arthur Sjögren

REF: DP03100 Instrumentation: SSATTBB
Duration: 12 Minutes
Editorial: Edition Peters
Pages: 27
Published in: 1589
First published in: 2000

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Francisco Guerrero was the most widely published Spanish composer of the 16th Century, and his output of sacred music contains many fine examples of the villanesca, a vernacular Spanish motet. In a rare incursion of the vernacular into the traditional Roman Catholic rite, such pieces were commonly used in Spanish churches during communion and on special feast days. Canciones y villanescas espirituales, from which the pieces in the present compilation have been selected, was published in Venice in 1589.