Magnificat for 5 voices. Late 16th century engraved "picture-motet" ("bildmottet") by C. Visscher after Jan Sadeler the elder (1550-1600), based on the painting by Maarten de Vos
- [Antwerp]: Visscher, 1595
[Antwerp]: Visscher, 1595. Oblong quarto. 1 leaf (ca. 05 x 288 mm).
A representation of the Magnificat, with the Virgin Mary in the center surrounded by four angels playing viols, a flute, and a cornetto, with two additional singing angels on either side holding large carelles (erasable slate tablets) on which are printed the complete five-voice setting (text and music) of Verdonck's Magnificat, with the altus and bassus part on the left carelle, the superius and tenor canon in diapason on the right.
With "Luce. 1. vers. 46" and text from psalm 147; "M.d.Vos. in" and "C. Visscher execu." and "5" printed to lower margin.
Trimmed to inside plate impression. Browned at upper margin with faint red lines to extreme margins. A reverse of Sadeler's 1586 engraving. RISM V1239 (the 1585 printing). Vignau-Wilberg: Music and Dance in 16th Century Prints, no. 63 (the 1585 printing), illustrated on p. 170. OCLC 271822365 (the present printing).
Verdonck, a Flemish composer and singer, "became a pupil in Antwerp of Séverin Cornet, who included one work of the younger composer in each of his three publications of 1581. ... Two sacred works, appearing in copper engravings of the Virgin by Marten de Vos, are predominantly imitative; one of these, a Magnificat for five voices, features a strict canon derived from the tenor. ... Along with his mentor Séverin Cornet, Verdonck is an important exponent of the madrigal in the north." R.B. Lenaerts, revised by Kristine Forney and Nathalie Vanballenberghe in Grove Music Online
"These engravings, sometimes known as 'picture-motets', show angels or biblical figures singing and playing from partbooks and may have been published in support of the Counter-Reformation. ... The composers, artists and engravers were all Flemish and these fine engravings, with the music complete and legible, bear witness to the thriving artistic life in Antwerp at the end of the 16th century. ... They are important in their own right as particularly beautiful and unusual examples of early music engraving." Susan Bain in Grove Music Online
A highly attractive image of one of the earliest examples of engraved music.
A representation of the Magnificat, with the Virgin Mary in the center surrounded by four angels playing viols, a flute, and a cornetto, with two additional singing angels on either side holding large carelles (erasable slate tablets) on which are printed the complete five-voice setting (text and music) of Verdonck's Magnificat, with the altus and bassus part on the left carelle, the superius and tenor canon in diapason on the right.
With "Luce. 1. vers. 46" and text from psalm 147; "M.d.Vos. in" and "C. Visscher execu." and "5" printed to lower margin.
Trimmed to inside plate impression. Browned at upper margin with faint red lines to extreme margins. A reverse of Sadeler's 1586 engraving. RISM V1239 (the 1585 printing). Vignau-Wilberg: Music and Dance in 16th Century Prints, no. 63 (the 1585 printing), illustrated on p. 170. OCLC 271822365 (the present printing).
Verdonck, a Flemish composer and singer, "became a pupil in Antwerp of Séverin Cornet, who included one work of the younger composer in each of his three publications of 1581. ... Two sacred works, appearing in copper engravings of the Virgin by Marten de Vos, are predominantly imitative; one of these, a Magnificat for five voices, features a strict canon derived from the tenor. ... Along with his mentor Séverin Cornet, Verdonck is an important exponent of the madrigal in the north." R.B. Lenaerts, revised by Kristine Forney and Nathalie Vanballenberghe in Grove Music Online
"These engravings, sometimes known as 'picture-motets', show angels or biblical figures singing and playing from partbooks and may have been published in support of the Counter-Reformation. ... The composers, artists and engravers were all Flemish and these fine engravings, with the music complete and legible, bear witness to the thriving artistic life in Antwerp at the end of the 16th century. ... They are important in their own right as particularly beautiful and unusual examples of early music engraving." Susan Bain in Grove Music Online
A highly attractive image of one of the earliest examples of engraved music.
Details
Title
Magnificat for 5 voices. Late 16th century engraved "picture-motet" ("bildmottet") by C. Visscher after Jan Sadeler the elder (1550-1600), based on the painting by Maarten de Vos
Author
VERDONCK, Cornelis 1563-1625
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Visscher: [Antwerp]
Date
1595