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Esteban Daza

Genuit puerpera [Boyleau]

 

El Parnaso (1576), fol. 54v

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Source title Siguese otra segunda parte a quatro de Simon Buleau, q[ue] es de vn motete que dize, O magnum misterium, señalase la claue de C solfaut en la segunda en tercero traste, y va señalada con vnos puntillos la voz del Tenor.
Title in contents   Genuit Puerpera, a quatro, del mismo auctor.
Text incipit Genuit puerpera


Music

Category intabulation

Genre motet

Fantasia type

Mode 1

Voices 4

Length (compases) 183

Vihuela

Tuning D

Courses 6

Final VI/0

Highest I/10

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty not specified

Tempo not specified

Song Text

Language LA

Vocal notation texted puntillos

Commentary

Another motet section from Simon Boyleau’s 1544 book. “Genuit puerpera” is the 2a pars of the Christmas text “O Magnum misterium”. “Genuit ouerpera” is from an antiphon sung at Lauds on the Nativity (see LU 386) for the plainsong with a slightly different text. It is a literal intabulation and very complex and difficult for performance, although Daza has made the intabulation for an instrument in D, exploiting the full range of the vihuela and showing a very proficient knowledge in the process of intabulation..

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Song Text

Genuit puerpera regem
cui nomem eternum
et gaudium matris habens
cum virginitate pudoris
nec primam similem
visa est
nec habere sequentem.
Alleluia.

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Boyleau, Simon. Motetta: quatuor vocem (1544). Edited by Sally Watt. Melbourne: Lyrebird Press, 2009.

Printed source(s)

Boyleau, Simon. Motetta in quatuor vocem nunquam hactenus impressa…. Venice: Scotto, 1544.

Manuscripts