Giovanni Battista Riccio: Il secondo libro delle divine lodi (Venezia, 1614). Edited by Chiara Comparin and Gabriele Taschetti. Introductory essay by Marina Toffetti. On-line version

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Giovanni Battista Riccio (1563-after 1620) was a prominent Venetian organist and composer whose music, long forgotten, is now the focus of renewed scholarly attention. The critical edition of his music is one of the outcomes of a long-term project dedicated to the study and promotion of incomplete polyphony, carried out by a research group within the Department of Cultural Heritage at the University of Padua.

The Secondo libro delle divine lodi (1614) includes 28 compositions: 1 Mass and 1 Magnificat for two voices, 19 sacred concertos (4 for solo voice, 10 for two voices, 2 for three voices, and 3 for four voices) and 7 instrumental works (5 canzonas for two instruments, 1 sonata and 1 canzona for four instruments). PDFs of the transposed versions of the pieces that require transposition are available for download.

Due to the loss of the Tenor part-book, 7 compositions, that is all the vocal and instrumental works for three and four voices, are now lacking one part. These works are published both in their original incomplete form and in versions supplemented by scholarly reconstructions of the missing part.

The incomplete compositions are also available as editable musicxml files for download.