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Creators | Key | Opus | Composed | Instrumentation | Period/style | Type | Listen | Code |
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| L'alto signor dinanzi a cui non vale | Cipriano de Rore, composer Francesco Petrarca, librettist |
6 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| L'arte musicale in Italia (Pubblicazione nazionale delle più importanti opere musicali italiane dal secolo XIV al XVIII) | Luigi Torchi, composer | 3 voices 4 voices 5 voices 5 voices and continuo 6 voices 8 voices 10 voices 12 voices soprano, 2 cornetts, 2 trombones, 2 violins and continuo soprano, 2 cornetts, trombone, 2 violins, viola and continuo tenor and continuo soprano and continuo continuo and 2 sopranos continuo and 3 sopranos 4 sopranos soprano, 2 violins and continuo |
Renaissance | Motets, Madrigals, Masses, Magnificats, Psalms, Canzonettas, Benedictus, Pastorales, Operas, Arias, Ariettas, Secular cantatas, Secular oratorios | |||||
| L’inargentato lido | Gasparo Zerto, composer Cesari Accelli, librettist |
6 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| La rouse du moys de may | Jean Mouton, composer | 1522 | 6 voices | Renaissance | Chansons | ||||
| Là ver l'aurora, che sì dolce l'aura | Alessandro Striggio, composer Francesco Petrarca, librettist |
6 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| Laboravi in gemitu | Thomas Morley, composer | 6 voices | Renaissance | Motets | |||||
| Lady, When I behold the Roses | John Wilbye, composer | 6 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| Lambeth Choirbook (Arundel Choirbook / Lambeth Palace Library, MS 1) | Various, composer | GB-Llp MS 1 | 5 voices 6 voices |
Renaissance | Masses, Magnificats, Motets | ||||
| Lamentationes Jeremiae prophetae | Giammateo Asola, composer | 6 voices | Renaissance | Lamentations | |||||
| Languisce al fin (madrigal after Carlo Gesualdo's 'Languisce al fin') | Antonio Politano, composer | 2011 | 6 voices | Modern | Madrigals | ||||
| Lasciato hai, Morte | Alessandro Striggio, composer Francesco Petrarca, librettist |
6 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| Lasso, amor mi trasporta | Andrea Gabrieli, composer Francesco Petrarca, librettist |
6 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| Lauda anima mea Dominum | Orlande de Lassus, composer | LV 981 | 6 voices | Renaissance | Motets | ||||
| Lauda Ierusalem Dominum | Orlande de Lassus, composer | LV 227 | 6 voices | Renaissance | Motets | ||||
| Lauda Sion salvatorem | Orlande de Lassus, composer Thomas Aquinas, librettist |
LV 634 | 6 voices | Renaissance | Motets | ||||
| Laudate Dominum de caelis | Orlande de Lassus, composer | LV 236 | 6 voices | Renaissance | Psalms | ||||
| Laudate Dominum omnes gentes | William Byrd, composer | T 163 | 6 voices | Renaissance | Sacred songs | ||||
| Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Psalm 117) | Hans Leo Hassler, composer | 6 voices | Renaissance | Psalms | |||||
| Laudate pueri Dominum | William Byrd, composer | 6 voices | Renaissance | Psalms | |||||
| Lætentur cæli | Jacob Handl, composer | 6 voices | Renaissance | Motets | |||||
| Le nuove musiche | Giulio Caccini, composer Ottavio Rinuccini, librettist Giovanni Battista Guarini, librettist Gabriello Chiabrera, librettist Francesco Cini, librettist |
RISM A/I: C 6 | voice and continuo 6 voices mixed chorus |
Baroque | Madrigals, Arias | ||||
| Le printemps | Claude Le Jeune, composer Jean-Antoine de Baïf, librettist |
2 voices 3 voices 4 voices 5 voices 6 voices 7 voices 8 voices |
Renaissance | Airs, Chansons | |||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | |||||
| Leggiadre ninfe e pastorelli amanti | Luca Marenzio, composer | 6 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| 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 six voix | François Regnard, composer | 6 voices | Renaissance | Motets | |||||
| 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 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 | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| Lieti fiori e felici | Rinaldo del Mel, composer Francesco Petrarca, librettist |
1583 | 6 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | ||||
| Litaniae Beatae Mariae Virginis sex vocum (Litaniae Lauretanae, Kyrie eleison - Pater de caelis Deus à 6) | Orlande de Lassus, composer | LV 1032 | 6 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 mélanges... a 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 v. | Claude Le Jeune, composer | 4 voices 5 voices 6 voices 8 voices 10 voices |
Renaissance | Chansons | |||||
| Locutus sum in lingua mea | Orlande de Lassus, composer | LV 338 | 6 voices | Renaissance | Motets | ||||
| Long Have I Made these Hils and Valleys Weary | John Wilbye, composer | 6 voices mixed chorus |
Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| Luce degl'occhi miei | Giaches de Wert, composer Girolamo Muzio, librettist |
6 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| Lumen ad revelationem gentium | Johann Walter, composer | 6 voices | Renaissance | Motets | |||||
| Lustgarten Neuer Teutscher Gesäng, Balletti, Galliarden und Intraden (Lustgarten Neuer Teutscher Gesäng, Balletti, Galliarden und Intraden mit 4. 5. 6. und 8. Stimmen) | Hans Leo Hassler, composer | RISM A/I: H 2340 | mixed chorus 4 voices 5 voices 6 voices 8 voices 6 Unspecified instruments |
Renaissance | Lieder, Balletti, Galliards, Intradas | ||||
| Ma bouche rit (Ma bouche rit et mon coeur pleure) | Josquin Desprez, composer | NJE 29.14 | 5 voices 6 voices |
Renaissance | Chansons | ||||
| Madonna, i prieghi miei son che saper vorrei | Maistre Jhan, composer | 6 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| Madregali di Verdelot a sei insieme altri Madregali de diversi eccellentissimi autori... a sei voci | Philippe Verdelot, composer | 6 voices | Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| Madrigali a 5 et 6 voci, Libro 9 (Il Nono Libro de Madrigali a cinque et sei voci, novamente composto, et dato in luce.) | Giaches de Wert, composer | RISM A/I: W 887 | 1588 | 5 voices 6 voices |
Renaissance | Madrigals | |||
| Madrigali a 5 voci, Libro 1 (Il primo libro de Madrigali a cinque voci) | Giovanni Boschetto Boschetti, composer | 5 voices 6 voices |
Renaissance | Madrigals | |||||
| Il primo libro de' madrigali a cinque voci | Tiburtio Massaino, composer | RISM A/I: M 1290 | 4 voices 5 voices 6 voices |
Renaissance | Madrigals, Canzonas | ||||
| Madrigali à 5, libro primo ({{TPtr}}
:Il Primo Libro de Madrigali a cinque voci, di Salamon Rossi Hebreo con alcuni di detti Madrigali per cantar nel chitarrone, con la sua intauolatura posta nel Soprano. Nouamente composti, & dati in luce. - In Venetia, Appresso Ricciardo Amadino, 1600. - in 4°. Canto della prima edizione del 1600; Tenore, Alto, Basso e Quinto della ristampa del medesimo Amadino in Venezia del 1607. In tutto opuscoli cinque. (A tergo del frontespizio v'ha la seguente dedicatoria) Premier livre de Madrigaux à 5 voix de Salomon Rossi, Juif (ebreo) Quelques uns pour ètre [sic!] chantés avec accompagnement de Chittarone dont la partie se trouve au Soprano; nouvellement composés et publiés à Venise chez Ricciardo Amadino 1600. (see Comments)) |
Salamone Rossi, composer | 5 voices 6 voices |
Baroque | Madrigals | |||||
| Madrigali a cinque voci, Libro 2 (Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci) | Domenico Micheli, composer | 1564 | 5 voices 6 voices 8 voices |
Renaissance | Madrigals |
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