sentences:  His first attempt was apparently the "Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno", and some time later he followed this with a 40-voice motet setting, "Ecce beatam lucem", a piece which has long been known.Some other gigantic polychoral works from the same time include Thomas Tallis's famous and often-performed "Spem in alium nunquam habui", for 40 voices, which may have been a response to hearing either the motet or the Mass in 1567; Stefano Rossetto's 50-voice motet "Consolamini popule meus"; and Cristofano Malvezzi's 30-voice intermedio for another Medici marriage, "O fortunato giorno".Both Rossetto and Malvezzi were associated with the Medici court.