Ghirlanda sacra scielta da diversi eccellentissimi compositori de varii motetti à voce sola (Venice, 1625) is a compilation of 44 single-voice motets in the new style assembled by Leonardo Simonetti.[1] Simonetti was a chorister in the Cappella Marciana, and placed his master Claudio Monteverdi at the head of the collection with four pieces, following it with other composers from the area of Venice and Veneto. A second printing followed in 1636.[2]
- ^ Dinko Fabris -Music in Seventeenth-century Naples: Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704) - 2007 - Page 52 "In 1625, one year after Provenzale was born, Leonardo Simonetti had already published in Venice his Ghirlanda sacra. Scielta da diversi eccellentissimi compositori de varij motetti a voce sola, an anthology of sacred monodies by the most ...
- ^ Missouri Journal of Research in Music Education - Volume 3 -1972 Page 90 This was included in a collection of vocal works, Ghirlanda Sacra, which contained works of the same genre by other composers such as Monteverdi and Gasparo Locatello, and which was published in Venice (1625 and 1636). "