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Creators | Key | Opus | Composed | Instrumentation | Period/style | Type | Listen | Code |
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| Le Rossignol musical des chansons (Le Rossignol musical des chansons de diverses et excellens autheurs de nostre temps a quatre, cinq et six parties) | Pierre Phalèse, composer | RISM B/I: 1598 | 4 voices 5 voices 6 voices |
Renaissance | Chansons | ||||
| Le rossignol plaisant et gratieux (The Nightingale) | Alfonso Ferrabosco Sr., composer | Ch.83 | 5 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | ||||
| Le selv' avea d'intorn' al lido Eusino | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, composer | 5 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| Le tre prime Lamentazioni come si cantano nella Cappella Sistina, A-Wn SA.67.F.22 | Various, composer | 4 voices 5 voices mixed chorus |
Renaissance | Lamentations | |||||
| Le vagh'herbett'e | Alessandro Striggio, composer | 5 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| Le voglie e l'opere mie | Orlande de Lassus, composer Gabriele Fiamma, librettist |
LV 806 | 5 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | ||||
| Leave Alas! This Tormenting | Thomas Morley, composer Michael Drayton, librettist |
5 voices | Renaissance | Balletts | |||||
| Lectiones Hiob et motectas (Tertium opus Musicum, continens Lectiones Hiob et motectas sev cantiones sacras, qvatvor, qvinqve et sex vocvm, antea qvidem tribvs fascicvlis seorsim excusas, nunc vero in volumen unum redactas. Avthore Orlando de Lasso ... Additae sunt etiam in fone aliquot piae Ferdinandi Lassi cantilenae, nunc primum in lucem editae) | Orlande de Lassus, composer | 4 voices 5 voices 6 voices |
Renaissance | Sacred songs, Motets | |||||
| Legem pone mihi | Orlande de Lassus, composer | LV 124 | 5 voices | Renaissance | Motets | ||||
| Les 150 pseaumes de David (Les cent cinquante pseaumes de David mis en rime françoise) | Philibert Jambe de Fer, composer Clément Marot, librettist Théodore de Bèze, librettist |
4 voices 5 voices |
Renaissance | Psalms | |||||
| Les cent cinquante Pseaumes de David (Les cent cinquante Pseaumes de David mis en Musique a quatre [& cinq] parties) | Claude Le Jeune, composer Clément Marot, librettist Théodore de Bèze, librettist |
RISM A/I: L 1681 | 4 voices 5 voices |
Renaissance | Psalms | ||||
| Les meslanges (''Title-page transcription'' ) | Pierre Certon, composer | 5 voices 6 voices 7 voices 8 voices 9 voices 13 voices |
Renaissance | Chansons, Songs | |||||
| Les Motets à cinq voix | François Regnard, composer | 5 voices mixed chorus |
Renaissance | Motets | |||||
| Les psaumes en vers mesurés (Mis en musique par Claude Le Jeune, Jacques Mauduit et Eustache Du Caurroy) | Various, composer Jean-Antoine de Baïf, librettist |
soprano, alto, tenor and bass 4 voices 5 voices 8 voices 2 mixed chorus |
Renaissance | Psalms | |||||
| Lessons on the Practice of Singing (Lessons on the Practice of Singing, with an Addition of the Church Tunes, in four Parts, and a Collection of Hymns; Canons, Airs and Catches, for the Improvement of Beginners. By Cornforth Gilson, Teacher of Music in Edinburgh.) | Cornforth Gilson, composer | voice 2 voices 3 voices 4 voices 5 voices mixed chorus mixed chorus and continuo voices and continuo |
Classical | Methods, Psalms, Hymns, Canons, Catches, Airs | |||||
| Let me, careless and unthoughtfully lying (Madrigal for five voices) | Thomas Linley Jr., composer Abraham Cowley, librettist |
5 voices | Classical | Madrigals | |||||
| Levavi oculos meos | Luca Marenzio, composer | 1616 | 5 voices | Renaissance | Sacred songs | ||||
| Levavi oculos meos in montes | Andrea Gabrieli, composer | 5 voices | Renaissance | Motets, Religious works | |||||
| Levò con la sua mano | Benedetto Pallavicino, composer | 5 voices mixed chorus |
Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| Li introiti fondati (Li introiti fondati sopra il canto fermo del basso con li versetti & gloria patri, con le risposte de contraponti, secondo l'ordine del messal novo, pertutte le feste maggiori & altre feste nell'anno a 4. a 5. & a 6. voci, commodi a cantori a misura breve & anco alla ordinaria. Dell'eccellente musico M. Hippolito Chamatero di negri cittadino romano. Novamente posti in luce) | Ippolito Chamaterò, composer | 4 voices 5 voices 6 voices |
Renaissance | Sacred songs | |||||
| Liber primus epigramatum (Liber primus epigramatum que vulgo motetta dicuntur, cum quinque, sex et octo vocibu) | Vicente Lusitano, composer | 5 voices 6 voices 8 voices |
Renaissance | Motets | |||||
| Liber primus sacrarum symphoniarum (Liber primus s[acrarum] symphoniarum vocibus VIII. VII. VI. V. IV. III. II. I. meditatus à Rdo. D. Bernardo Klingenstein) | Bernhard Klingenstein, composer | voice 2 voices 3 voices 4 voices 5 voices 6 voices 7 voices 8 voices |
Renaissance | Sacred songs, Motets | |||||
| Liber sacratissimarum | Blasius Ammon, composer | 1582 | 5 voices | Renaissance | Sacred songs | ||||
| Liber selectarum cantionum quas vulgo mutetas appellant (Liber selectarum cantionum quas vulgo Mutetas appellant sex quinque et quatuor vocum) | Various, composer | 4 voices 5 voices 6 voices |
Renaissance | Hymns, Motets | |||||
| Libera me Domine | Andrea Gabrieli, composer | 5 voices | Renaissance | Motets, Sacred songs | |||||
| Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna | William Byrd, composer | 5 voices | Renaissance | Motets, Sacred songs | |||||
| Libera me, Domine, et pone me juxta te | William Byrd, composer | T 18 | 1575 | 5 voices | Renaissance | Sacred songs | |||
| Libro de villanelle, moresche et altre canzoni (Libro de villanelle, moresche et altre canzoni a 4, 5, 6, et 8 voci) | Orlande de Lassus, composer | 4 voices 5 voices 6 voices 8 voices |
Renaissance | Villanelle, Dances, Canzonas | |||||
| Lieder, Chansons und Motetten (Liederbuch des Iann Obser von Augsburg um 1523, enthaltend vier-, fünf- und sechsstimmige Lieder (Ms. UB Basel, F X 1...)) | Various, composer | 4 voices 5 voices 6 voices |
Renaissance | Lieder, Chansons, Motets, Sacred songs | |||||
| Liete piante, verdi erbe, limpide acque | Giovanni Nasco, composer Lodovico Ariosto, librettist |
5 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| Lieti fiori e felici | Hans Leo Hassler, composer Francesco Petrarca, librettist |
5 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| Liquide perle Amor da gli occhi sparse | Luca Marenzio, composer L. Pasqualino, librettist |
5 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| Litaniae Beatae Mariae Virginis quinque vocum (Litaniae Lauretanae, Kyrie eleison - Pater de caelis Deus à 5) | Orlande de Lassus, composer | LV 1026 | 5 voices | Renaissance | Litanies | ||||
| Litaniae Beatae Mariae Virginis quatuor vocum (Litaniae Lauretanae, Kyrie eleison - Pater de caelis Deus à 4) | Orlande de Lassus, composer | LV 1027 | 1590 | 5 voices | Renaissance | Litanies | |||
| Litaniae Beatae Mariae Virginis quinque vocum (Litaniae Lauretanae, Kyrie eleison - Pater de caelis Deus à 5) | Orlande de Lassus, composer | LV 1028 | 5 voices | Renaissance | Litanies | ||||
| Litaniae Beatae Mariae Virginis quinque vocum (Litaniae Lauretanae, Kyrie eleison - Pater de caelis Deus à 5) | Orlande de Lassus, composer | LV 1029 | 5 voices | Renaissance | Litanies | ||||
| Litaniae Beatae Mariae Virginis quinque vocum (Litaniae Lauretanae, Kyrie eleison - Pater de caelis Deus à 5) | Orlande de Lassus, composer | LV 1030 | 5 voices | Renaissance | Litanies | ||||
| Litaniae Beatae Mariae Virginis quinque vocum (Litaniae Lauretanae, Kyrie eleison - Pater de caelis Deus à 5) | Orlande de Lassus, composer | LV 1031 | 5 voices | Renaissance | Litanies | ||||
| Litaniae | Orlande de Lassus, composer | LV 1026-1037, 1061, Anh.60-62 | 1575 | 4 voices 5 voices 6 voices 8 voices 9 voices 10 voices 2 mixed chorus |
Renaissance | Litanies | |||
| Liturgische Sätze (Liturgische Sätze über altevangelische Kyrie- und Gloriaweisen) | Hugo Distler, composer | Various and variably | Op.13 | 2 voices 3 voices 4 voices 5 voices 6 voices 7 voices 8 voices |
Early 20th century | Kyrie, Gloria | |||
| Livre de chansons a cinq parties (Livre de chansons a cinq parties, convenable tant a la voix, comme a toutes sortes d'instrumens: avec une Pastorelle a VII. en forme de Dialogue) | Jean de Castro, composer | 5 voices 7 voices |
Renaissance | Chansons, Pastorales | |||||
| Livre de chansons novvelles a cinq parties (Livre de chansons novvelles a cinq parties, avec devx dialogves a hvict) | Orlande de Lassus, composer | LV 438-455 | 5 voices 8 voices |
Renaissance | Chansons | ||||
| Livre de mélanges... a 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 v. | Claude Le Jeune, composer | 4 voices 5 voices 6 voices 8 voices 10 voices |
Renaissance | Chansons | |||||
| Lo, She Flies (Lo, She Flies When I Woo Her) | Thomas Morley, composer | 5 voices mixed chorus |
Renaissance | Balletts, Madrigals | |||||
| Lobgesang der Liebe (Lobgesang der Liebe auff Simon Dachen und Jungfr: Reginae Pohlin Hochzeitlichen Ehren-Tag : mit 5. Stimmen gesetzet.) | Johann Stobäus, composer | 5 voices | Baroque | Wedding music | |||||
| Lobsinget Gott im höchsten Thron | Paul Lütkemann, composer | C major | 1604 | 5 voices | Renaissance | Sacred songs | |||
| Lobt Gott, ihr Christen | Leonhard Schröter, composer | 5 voices | Renaissance | Lieder | |||||
| Loe how my colour | Ippolito Sabino, composer | 5 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| Lord to Thee I make my moan | Thomas Weelkes, composer | 5 voices | Renaissance | Anthems, Sacred choruses | |||||
| Lord, How Long wilt Thou be Angry? | Henry Purcell, composer | Z.25 | 1680 | 5 voices mixed chorus |
Baroque | Anthems | |||
| Lord, Who Shall Dwell in Thy Tabernacle (Anthem) | Robert White, composer | 1560 | 5 voices | Renaissance | Anthems, Psalms |
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