SKU: CA.2102400
Composed by Guillaume
Bouzignac. Edited by
Jean-Paul C. Montagnier.
This edition: paperback.
French Sacred Music. 4
Weihnachtsmotetten.
Sacred vocal music,
Motets, Advent,
Christmas, Feasts of the
Blessed Virgin Mary,
Hymns in praise of the
Virgin Mary. Full score.
28 pages. Carus Verlag
#CV 21.024/00. Published
by Carus Verlag
(CA.2102400).
ISBN
9790007167745.
The
compositions of Guillaume
Bouzignac (ca. 1587 to
sometime after 1643) were
important for the
development of French
sacred music before the
time of Jean-Baptiste
Lully. Nonetheless his
work, surrounded by
mystery, has survived in
only four manuscripts
containing only eleven
motets which are ascribed
by name to Bouzignac. The
present edition contains
four a cappella motets
for the Christmas season.
These are sacred stories,
brief scenes, in which
the soprano voice sings
in dialog with the other
voices of the choir.