“Officium Defunctorum“ (Requiem) à 6 by Tomás Luis de Victoria

Tomás Luis de Victoria’s “Officium Defunctorum,“ in a live performance by Cantores Musicæ Antiquæ, Jeffery Kite-Powell, director. February 18, 2000 at the Cathedral on the campus of Loyola University in New Orleans, La. Members of the ensemble: Sara Balduf, Courtney Malone, Lauren Waddel, first sopranos Denise Karnes, Laura Moore Pruett, second sopranos Brad Fugate, Kari Kistler, Bama Lutes Deal, altos Adam Ackerman, Jeremy Skelton, first tenors John Deal, Matthew Roberson, second tenors Russell Blenis, Christopher Peterson, basses Regarding the performance of Renaissance vocal music, the study of pronunciation, or phonology, has recently been added to the growing corpus of relevant issues. The most definitive source on Renaissance pronunciation is Singing Early Music, edited by Timothy J. McGee (Indiana University Press, 1996). The author of the chapter on Spanish Latin is Harold Copeman. Our performance of selected works by Victoria, Guerrero,