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Richard Dering : Motets for One, Two or Three Voices and Basso Continuo

This scholarly edition of two- and three-voice Latin motets makes available for the first time a large corpus of small-scale music by Richard Dering (c.1580–1630), one of the first English composers to be influenced by early seventeenth-century Italian concertato techniques. Most of the motets are here published in modern scholarly editions for the first time, 20 anonymous pieces are, on the basis of source and stylistic studies, attributed anew to Dering, and the editor has reconstructed four motets with missing parts. (Full details are published in my Music and Letters article.) The significant research element of this submission relates to the source studies that were undertaken by the editor and the resultant new attributions to Dering. British Library Add. MS 78416 B was discovered by the editor amongst the Evelyn family papers when they were originally deposited in the library of Christ Church, Oxford.