Virgo Prudentissima (Heinrich Isaac)

Virgo prudentissima
Renaissance music
Beginning of Virgo prudentissima
English	"Most prudent Virgin"
Genre	Religious music, motet
Text	Liber selectarum cantionum (1520)
Language	Latin
Composed	1507 (1507)

Virgo prudentissima is a six-voice motet (SSAATB), dedicated to the Virgin Mary and composed by Heinrich Isaac in 1507. The motet describes the Assumption of Mary, calling on her and the nine orders of angels to protect Emperor Maximilian I and the Holy Roman Empire.^[1] The lyricist was Georg von Slatkonia.