The Polyphony Database
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About the database❯
PolyphonyDatabase.com is a detailed catalogue of early music sources designed to help musicians perform, academics study, and enthusiasts explore a vast and glorious repertoire quickly and easily. It aims to combine the practicality of CPDL with the academic rigour and ambition of the RISM census, to make use of similar projects where possible, and to directly combat the frustrations performing musicians have with all existing resources.
Its three main goals are:
- To assist performers, directors, and editors by cataloguing the contents of primary sources, source concordances, and basic information about how each piece of music can be performed.
- To provide a reliable starting point for academic research by linking to library catalogues, other existing databases, and facsimile images of early music manuscripts and prints.
- To provide a repository for properly sourced critical editions, performing scores, and recordings of as much of this music as possible, each carefully vetted for typesetting quality and accuracy, and made available for free download, so that this music might be discovered and appreciated by a wider audience.
The database was founded by Francis Bevan in 2014 as an outlet for his editing hobby and is regularly updated by him and a small team of enthusiasts. If you would like to contribute some cataloguing time, recordings or editions, submit corrections, commission an edition or just donate some cash, please get in touch with Francis via email: polyphonydatabase@gmail.com.
The best way to help fund the project is to commission performing editions. New editions can be made quickly for as little as £10.
Read more about the project's history at the 2018 Crowdfunder page.
Title |
Function(s) |
Composer |
# |
Sources |
Viri sancti gloriosum sanquinem
|
|
Gabrieli, Andrea
1532/1533–1585
|
4 |
|
Viri sancti gloriosum sanquinem
|
|
Zallamella, Pandolfo
1551–after 1590
|
5 |
|
Viri sancti gloriosum sanquinem
|
|
Mortaro, Antonio
fl.1587–1610
|
6 |
|
Vir iste in populo suo
|
|
Resinarius, Balthasar
c.1485–1544
|
4 |
|
Viri timorati nolite flere
|
|
Ceresini, Giovanni
1584–1659
|
5 |
|
Vir linguosus non dirigetur in terra
|
|
Handl, Jacob
1550–1591
|
4 |
|
Vir quidem erat in Cesaria - Obstupuerunt autem
|
|
Potoletus, Claudius
|
6 |
Choirbook E (NL-Lml 1442)
Leiden: Blauwe, Anthonius de and Flamingus, Johannes, c.1550-c.1576
(Choirbook, MS)
#45
|
|
Attrib: C. potoletus |
|
|
Virtute magna
|
|
Gabrieli, Giovanni
c.1554–1612
|
12 |
|
Virtute magna
|
|
Rubini, Nicolò
1584–1625
|
6 |
|
Virtute magna reddebant apostoli
|
|
Trombetti, Ascanio
1544–1590
|
6 |
|
Virtute magna reddebant Apostoli
|
|
Croce, Giovanni
c.1557–1609
|
4 |
|
Virtute magna reddebant Apostoli
|
|
Paminger, Leonhard
1495–1567
|
4 |
|
Virtute magna reddebant Apostoli
|
|
Rubini, Nicolò
1584–1625
|
6 |
|
Virtute magna reddebant Apostoli
|
|
Massaino, Tiburtio
before 1550–after 1608
|
4 |
|
Virtute magna reddebant Apostoli - Repleti sunt quidem spiritu sancto
|
|
Dorati, Nicolao
c.1513–1593
|
6 |
|
Virtute magna reddebant Apostoli - Repleti sunt quidem spiritu sancto
|
|
Conflicting attributions
|
4 |
Primus liber cum quatuor vocibus. Mot... (RISM 1532/10)
Lyon: Moderne, Jacques, 1532
(Partbook, Print)
RISM
#12
|
|
Attrib: Anon |
|
Lib. decimus tertius. xviii. musicale... (RISM 1535/5)
Paris: Attaingnant, Pierre, 1535
(Partbook, Print)
RISM
#5
|
|
Attrib: M. Lasson |
|
Symphoniae iucundae atque adeo breves... (RISM 1538/8)
Wittenberg: Rhau, Georg, 1538
(Partbook, Print)
RISM
#37
|
|
Attrib: Philippus Verdelot |
|
Primus liber cum quatuor vocibus fior... (RISM 1539/12)
Venice: Gardano, Antonio, 1539
(Partbook, Print)
RISM
#9
|
|
Attrib: Lasson |
|
Flos florum primus liber cum quatuor ... (RISM 1545/4)
Venice: Gardano, Antonio, 1545
(Partbook, Print)
RISM
#9
|
|
Attrib: Lasson |
|
Secundus tomus evangeliorum quatuor, ... (RISM 1555/10)
Nuremberg: Berg, Johann and Neuber, Ulrich, 1555
(Choirbook, Print)
RISM
#36
|
|
Attrib: Lasson |
|
(I-TVd 7)
Treviso, 1558-1571
(Choirbook, MS)
#8
|
|
Attrib: Anon |
|
Mottetti del fiore a quattro voci nov... (RISM 1564/6)
Venice: Rampazetto, Francesco, 1564
(Partbook, Print)
RISM
#9
|
|
Attrib: Lasson |
|
|
Virtute magna reddebant Apostoli - Repleti sunt quidem spiritu sancto
|
|
Porta, Costanzo
c.1528–1601
|
4 |
|
Virtute magna - Repleti sunt quidem
|
|
Vento, Ivo de
1543-1545–1575
|
5 |
|
Virtute magna - Repleti sunt quidem
|
|
Rore, Cipriano de
1515/1516–1565
|
5 |
|
Virtute magna - Repleti sunt quidem
|
|
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
c.1525–1594
|
5 |
|
Virum misericordiae
|
|
Bona, Valerio
c.1560–c.1620
|
6 |
|
Visionem quam vidistis
|
Transfiguration |
Bendinello, Agostino
c.1550–1598
|
5 |
|
Visionem quam vidistis
|
Transfiguration |
Lambardi, Girolamo
fl.1586–1623
|
4 |
|
Visitabo in virga
|
|
Bacchius, Johannes de
d.1557
|
5 |
|
Visita quaesumus
|
|
Riccio, Teodore
c.1540–c.1600
|
6 |
|