Esperanza Rodríguez-García is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), working with the project The Anatomy of Late 15th- and Early 16th-Century Iberian Polyphonic Music . She has held research positions at the IMR-University of London (as an Early Career Research Associate), the British Library-RHUL (as a researcher on the project 'Early Music Online'), and The University of Nottingham ('Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow)'. She collaborates with the project 'Le lexique musicale de la Renaissance' (on lexicology of Iberian music theory), supported by the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and 'TheNottingham Sensory Studies Network' at the University of Nottingham. She has published on different aspects of music of the Early Modern period, including one music edition, one book and various articles on musical sources, musical institutions and their repertoires, historiography, and book history. Her latest contribution ('Authors, Books, and Readers: Tomás Luis de Victoria's Missae, magnificat, motecta, psalmi et alia [1600]') appeared in the volume Makers, Owners and Users of Music Sources before 1600 (ed. Tim Sheppard and Lisa Colton, Brepols, 2017). Daniele V. Filippi is is a Swiss National Science Foundation Research Fellow at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Academy of Music, Basel, Switzerland).

The motet has been part of his scholarly interests since his graduation at the University of Pavia at Cremona with a dissertation on Palestrina's Motecta festorum totius anni of 1563. He has researched and published about several early modern composers, including Palestrina, Victoria, de Monte, and G.F. Anerio. Among his recent publications are "'Audire missam non est verba missae intelligere.': The Low Mass and the Motetti missales in Sforza Milan" ( Journal of the Alamire Foundation 9, no. 1 [2017]), and the book Listening to Early Modern Catholicism: Perspectives from Musicology , co-edited with Michael Noone (Brill, 2017). For more information, see http://www.

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