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Giovanni Battista Bassani, a late-Renaissance composer of great importance, has been all but ignored by posterity and recent studies. His music's rediscovery brings to light the work of a great contrapuntist as well as creator of catchy melodies and surprising rhythmic solutions. His InchArmonici Entuisiasmi di DavideInch, printed in Venice in 1690, a collection of nine psalms, a Magnificat and the Litany of the Blessed Virgin, was for use during the liturgical year's rites of Vespers. One of the leading specialists of music from this period, Giovanni Acciai, leads the Ensemble Ars Nova Cantandi. Album Tracks 1. Psalm 69, 'Domine, Ad Adjuvandum Me Festina' Domine, Ad Adjuvandum Me Festina 2. Psalm 69, 'Domine, Ad Adjuvandum Me Festina' Alleluja 3. Psalm 109, 'Dixit Dominus Domino Meo' Dixit Dominus Domino Meo 4. Psalm 109, 'Dixit Dominus Domino Meo' Donec Ponam Inimicos Tuos 5. Psalm 109, 'Dixit Dominus Domino Meo' Virgam Virtutis Tuae Emittet Dominus Ex Sion 6. Psalm 109, 'Dixit Dominus Domino Meo' Tecum Principium in Die Virtutis Tuae 7. Psalm 109, 'Dixit Dominus Domino Meo' Juravit Dominus Et Non Penitebit Eum 8. Psalm 109, 'Dixit Dominus Domino Meo' Dominus a Dextris Tuis Confregit in Die Ille Suae Reges 9. Psalm 109, 'Dixit Dominus Domino Meo' Judicabit in Nationibus 10. Psalm 109, 'Dixit Dominus Domino Meo' de Torrente in Via Bibet 11. Psalm 109, 'Dixit Dominus Domino Meo' Gloria Patri Et Filio Et Spiritui Sancto 12. Psalm 109, 'Dixit Dominus Domino Meo' Sicut Erat in Principio Et Nunc Et Semper 13. Psalm 110, 'Confitebor Tibi Domine' Confitebor Tibi Domine in Toto Corde Meo 14. Psalm 110, 'Confitebor Tibi Domine' Memoriam Fecit Mirabilia Suorum 15. Psalm 110, 'Confitebor Tibi Domine' Memor Erit in Saeculum Testamenti Sui 16. Psalm 110, 'Confitebor Tibi Domine' Ut Det Illis Hereditatem Gentium 17. Psalm 110,