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Mr. Norman Blaustein
[MUSIC]. WILLAERT, ADRIAN. Musica nova, 1559. 3 [of 7] part books (Cantus, Tenor and Quintus)--JOANELLUS, PETRUS, compiler. Novi thesauri musici liber primus [-quintus]... continentur octo, septem, sex, quinque ac quatuor vocum, 1568. 3 [of 6] part books; both Venice: Antonio Gardano, bound together in 3 vols., small 4to, contemporary calf (the Cantus and Quintus volumes) and sheep (the Tenor volume), covers with two triple blind rule borders, floral tools at corners of the inner border, gilt-tooled central diamond-shaped lozenge, upper covers with the part name blind-tooled above and the date 1574 below the lozenge, traces of ties, g.e., rebacked and most corners restored, endpapers renewed, some worming especially to board edges, abraded in spots, the gilding largely rubbed away, dampstaining, the first third of the Quintus volume marginally wormholed, a single small wormhole through the Willaert and two small repairs to gutter of the last leaf of the same volume, a few corners bent, occasional marginal soiling. Each part of the Joannellus with 5 title-pages, each within the same architectural woodcut border, 3 full-page coats-of-arms, of the Emperor Maximilian II and the Archdukes Ferdinand and Charles (all repeated at least once within each volume), and the compiler's full-page woodcut insignia; each Willaert part with architectural and pictorial woodcut title-page (letterpress within cartouche), both with typeset music, full-page woodcut portraits of the dedicatees, and numerous woodcut historiated initials.
A rare set of two fairly elaborately printed collections of motets and madrigals. Sets of sixteenth-century part books containing more than two of the parts are extremely uncommon. RISM's exhaustive census records 8 complete sets of Willaert's collection of madrigals, none of which are located in the US, where the only recorded copy is of the Alto part alone (Berkeley). Of Joannellus's anthology of motets by Orlando di Lasso, J. Regnart, J. Vaet and others, RISM lists 13 complete copies, including three in US libraries. The Flemish composer Willaert contributed greatly to the development of Italian madrigal; he was also one of the earliest composers of purely instrumental music, and is credited with having initiated the style of double-choir compositions. (3)
Mr. Norman Blaustein
[MUSIC]. WILLAERT, ADRIAN. Musica nova, 1559. 3 [of 7] part books (Cantus, Tenor and Quintus)--JOANELLUS, PETRUS, compiler. Novi thesauri musici liber primus [-quintus]... continentur octo, septem, sex, quinque ac quatuor vocum, 1568. 3 [of 6] part books; both Venice: Antonio Gardano, bound together in 3 vols., small 4to, contemporary calf (the Cantus and Quintus volumes) and sheep (the Tenor volume), covers with two triple blind rule borders, floral tools at corners of the inner border, gilt-tooled central diamond-shaped lozenge, upper covers with the part name blind-tooled above and the date 1574 below the lozenge, traces of ties, g.e., rebacked and most corners restored, endpapers renewed, some worming especially to board edges, abraded in spots, the gilding largely rubbed away, dampstaining, the first third of the Quintus volume marginally wormholed, a single small wormhole through the Willaert and two small repairs to gutter of the last leaf of the same volume, a few corners bent, occasional marginal soiling. Each part of the Joannellus with 5 title-pages, each within the same architectural woodcut border, 3 full-page coats-of-arms, of the Emperor Maximilian II and the Archdukes Ferdinand and Charles (all repeated at least once within each volume), and the compiler's full-page woodcut insignia; each Willaert part with architectural and pictorial woodcut title-page (letterpress within cartouche), both with typeset music, full-page woodcut portraits of the dedicatees, and numerous woodcut historiated initials.
A rare set of two fairly elaborately printed collections of motets and madrigals. Sets of sixteenth-century part books containing more than two of the parts are extremely uncommon. RISM's exhaustive census records 8 complete sets of Willaert's collection of madrigals, none of which are located in the US, where the only recorded copy is of the Alto part alone (Berkeley). Of Joannellus's anthology of motets by Orlando di Lasso, J. Regnart, J. Vaet and others, RISM lists 13 complete copies, including three in US libraries. The Flemish composer Willaert contributed greatly to the development of Italian madrigal; he was also one of the earliest composers of purely instrumental music, and is credited with having initiated the style of double-choir compositions. (3)