In New Senfl Edition 3 all of Ludwig Senfl's five-part motets are published for the first time. It includes Marian motets such as Mater digna Dei / Ave, sanctissima Maria reflecting the Marian devotion at the court of Duke Wilhelm IV, psalm motets that refer to Josquin Desprez in various ways (Miserere mei, Deus), or works such as Qui prophetice prompsisti, whose tertia pars Vita in ligno moritur was already widespread during the composer's lifetime. In addition, the volume offers the first edition of Senfl's large-scale Te Deum laudamus as well as several polytextual motets. Compositions such as Christus resurgens ex mortuis / Christ ist erstanden show the points of contact between the sacred Latin and the vernacular spheres, while other works - for example Tanto tempore vobiscum / Philippe qui videt me - take up the long tradition of the cantus firmus motet, into which Senfl inscribes himself with lasting effect.

Stefan Gasch works at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. His research includes questions on sources, liturgy, and piety in the early modern period. Since 2015 he has been leading the research project of the New Senfl Edition. Scott Lee Edwards received his doctorate in the history and literature of music at the University of California, Berkeley and has held academic positions at New York University, and Excelsior College, Harvard University. Sonja Tröster works at the University of Vienna. Her main research interests include vernacular music culture, music and humanism in the sixteenth century, music philology, and the reception of Early music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.