motet features six "choirs" of voices and instruments) Johann Joseph Fux: Costanza e Fortezza (the score for this opera features 8 trumpets, 2 timpanists and two complete orchestras) Johann Sebastian Bach: Passion after Matthew for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra Music editions Orazio Benevoli Opera Omnia, ed. L. Feininger, Monumenta liturgiae Polychoralis Sanctae Ecclesiae Romane (Rome, 1966-). Orazio Benevoli, Christe, a 12 in 3 choirs, ed. Marcel Couraud (Paris, Editions Salabert, 1973) Vincenzo Ugolini, Exultate omnes, Beata es Virgo Maria and Quae est ista, three motets in 12 part triple choirs. Transcribed and edited by Graham Dixon (Mapa Mundi, 1982). Books with Music Steven Saunders, CROSS, SWORD AND LYRE, Sacred Music at the Imperial Court of Ferdinand II of Habsburg (1619–1637) (Clarendon, 1995). Notes References Joseph Dyer, "Roman Catholic church music, §II: The 16th century in Europe". Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed May 15, 2007), (subscription access) Baroque music Polychoral compositions European court festivities