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Luis de Narváez

Cum sancto spiritu de la Missa sine nomine* [Josquin]

 

Los seis libros del Delphin (1538), fol. 38v

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Source title Este cum sancto spiritu. es de la missa de la fuga de Josquin: esta puesto por estas claues.
Title in contents   Cu[m] sa[n]cto spiritu. De la missa de la fuga.
Text incipit Cum sancto spirit [incipit only]


Music

Category intabulation

Genre mass

Fantasia type

Mode 2

Voices 4

Length (compases) 88

Vihuela

Tuning G

Courses 6

Final VI/2

Highest I/7

Lowest VI/2

Difficulty not specified

Tempo fast

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Commentary

Rubric: “This Cum santo spirito is from the Missa ad Fugam by Josquin, it is intabulated according to these clefs” i.e. F on IV and C on III, therefore a vihuela in G. Narváez’s attribution is incorrect, however. The work is actually based on the Missa sine nomine [JosqMS, nº 17]. This is probably due to having copied the work from the Antico print (Rome, 1516) where the Missa sine nomine is misattributed as the Missa ad fugam (JosqMS, nº 16). Valderrábano set the same movement (Va125). Discussed in Bevilacqua 2004, 86-94. There is useful information on this distinctive Mass in the Wikipedia article devoted to it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missa_sine_nomine_(Josquin) {accessed 25/03/2020]