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Ludford appears to have lived in Westminster for at least forty years before his death in 1557. For most of that time he was a member of St Stephen’s chapel in the royal palace of Westminster, perhaps initially as a lay-clerk, but from the mid-1520s as organist, director of music and resident composer. This Magnificat is one of a few works by him in six voices rather than the normal five. Unusually for an English setting, its cantus firmus is not a faburden but an independent plainchant, the responsory verse Benedicta et venerabilis for the feast of the Assumption, upon which he also composed a six-part mass: the two works thus provide polyphony for vespers and the mass of the day of this high-status feast. For six voices: SATBarBB. iv + 20 pages. 2026. ISMN 979-0-57039-226-1.
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