THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MOTET: AN UPDATE ON PUBLISHED CATALOGUES AND INDEXES IN PROGRESS

The forthcoming revision of Barry Brook's classic Thematic Catalogues in Music is a testament to the enduring usefulness of this genre of reference works.' One especially noteworthy example is Harry Lincoln's The Latin Motet: Indexes to Printed Collections, 1500-1600, which presents musical and text incipits for some seven thousand Renaissance motets.2 For until now, scholars have had remarkably little bibliographic control over the motet, in contrast to the corresponding secular genre, the Italian polyphonic madrigal, which was catalogued over a hundred years ago in Emil Vogel's masterful Bibliothek der gedruckten weltlichen Vocalmusik Italiens, aus den Jahren 1500-1700.3 The few indexes that have been