A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Cantiones Sacræ

CANTIONES SACRÆ. The name given to several collections of Latin motets published in London between 1575 and 1610. They comprise the following: 'Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur, quinque et sex partium,' by Tallis and Byrd, 1575 [see Tallis, Thomas]; and the following by Byrd alone:—'Liber Primus Sacrarum Cantionum Quinque Vocum,' 1589 (reprinted in score by the Musical Antiquarian Society, 1842); 'Liber Secundus Sacrarum Cantionum Quinque Vocum,' 1591; 'Gradualia, ac Cantiones Sacræ quinis, quaternis, trinis vocibus concinnatæ, Liber Primus,' and the same, 'Liber Secundus,' 1607. See Byrd in Appendix.

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