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Esteban Daza

Respexit Helias [Boyleau]

 

El Parnaso (1576), fol. 64v

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Source title Otro Motete de mismo autor a quatro, y señalase la voz del tiple co[n] vnos puntillos, señalase la claue de C solfaut en la tercera en primer traste.
Title in contents   Respexit Helias, a quatro, del mesmo, a quatro, del mesmo auctor.
Text incipit Respexit Helias


Music

Category intabulation

Genre motet

Fantasia type

Mode 5 or 6

Voices 4

Length (compases) 163

Vihuela

Tuning A

Courses 6

Final V/1

Highest I/8

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty not specified

Tempo not specified

Song Text

Language LA

Vocal notation texted puntillos

Commentary

Motet by Boyleau setting a text paraphrased from I Kings 19. Literal intabulation

Editions

Daça, [=Daza] Esteban. Los vihuelistas. Esteban Daça. Colección opera Omnia dirigida por Rodrigo de Zayas. Madrid: Editorial Alpuerto, 1983.

Literature

Watt, Sally. “Simon Boyleau, Motetta quatuor vocum (Venice: G. Scotto, 1544: an edition and study”. M. Mus. diss. University of Melbourne, 2002.

Recordings
Song Text

Respexit Helias ad caput suum
subcinericium panem qui surgens
comedit et bibit, et ambulavit
in fortitudine cibilius
usque ad montem Dei.

Elias looked with his head,
towards the bread, he got up,
ate cake and drank and went
in the strength fading,
up to the mountain of God.

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