Musica Secreta
Musica Secreta is a British vocal ensemble that was founded in 1991 by soprano Deborah Roberts to explore music written by and for women in the 16th and 17th centuries. In 2000, musicologist Laurie Stras joined the ensemble as a co-director. The group has made several award-winning albums. They collaborated with novelist Sarah Dunant in a musical dramatization of Dunant's novel Sacred Hearts which ran between 2009 and 2012. Their album Lucrezia Borgia's Daughter (2017) is a recording of the earliest known published music intended for performance by nuns. The recording features motets printed in the anonymous Musica quinque vocum motteta materna lingua vocata printed in 1543; some may have been written by Eleonora d'Este, the only surviving daughter of Lucrezia Borgia and Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara.
Genre: choral, medieval
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Top Tracks
- Niño que hoy nacido has
- Musica quinque vocum (Attrib. to Leonora d'Este): Tribulationes civitatum audivimus [from the Musica quinque vocum motteta materna lingua vocata] (attrib. to Leonora d'Este)
- Musica quinque vocum (Attrib. to Leonora d'Este): Sicut lilium (from the Musica quinque vocum motteta materna lingua vocata) (attrib. to Leonora d'Este)
- Musica quinque vocum (Attrib. to Leonora d'Este): Haec dies (from the Musica quinque vocum motteta materna lingua vocata) (attrib. to Leonora d'Este)
- Musica quinque vocum (Attrib. to Leonora d'Este): Suscipe verbum virgo Maria (from the Musica quinque vocum motteta materna lingua vocata) (attrib. to Leonora d'Este)
- Ave Maria … Virgo serena (Arr. D. Roberts)
- Regnum mundi et omnem ornatum (Arr. D. Roberts)
- Vox in Rama audita est (Arr. D. Roberts)
- Missa L'homme arme sexti toni: Agnus Dei III (Arr. D. Roberts)
- Veni sponsa Christi (Arr. L. Stras)
- Letaniae Beatae Mariea Virginis (Arr. L. Stras)
- Qui timetis Dominum (Arr. L. Stras)
- Versa est in luctum (Arr. L. Stras)
- Quomodo dilexi (Arr. L. Stras)
- Quo rubicunda rosa (Arr. L. Stras)
- Innova Domine signa (Arr. L. Stras)
- Quam pulchra es (Arr. L. Stras)
- Deus misereatur (Arr. L. Stras)
- Exaudi, Deus (Arr. L. Stras)
- Iste cognovit jusititiam (Arr. L. Stras)
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