The Italian And Spanish Schools For 5 Voices-The volumes of this expanding series are devoted to a wide range of sacred renaissance motets with Latin texts and contain a mixture of well known and unfamiliar pieces some of which are published for the first time.Allappear in completely new editions by Anthony G. Petti.

Palestrina is one of the towering figures of late Renaissance church music whose polyphonic compositions remain actively performed in the Choral repertoire. He composed more than 250 motets. This one Assumpta Est Maria for theFeast of the Assumption is of particular interest.In 1545 the Council of Trent set out to reform various practices in the Roman Catholic Church in defense of the threats…