Lobo, Alonso: Ave Maria
set for recorders (A/sATT/b + A/sTTB), viols or other early instruments by Mark Davenport.
Lobo's ingenious double choir motet Ave Maria, from his Liber primus missarum Alphonsi Lobo de Borja (Madrid, 1602), demonstrates exceptional contrapuntal skill. The use of canon, as a unifying compositional device, was actively promoted by Spanish composers. In this eight-part motet, Lobo tackles the problem of an eight-in-four canon (as Guerrero had done a half-century earlier with his eight-part Pater noster).
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