A literal intabulation of Richarfort’s renowned motet. The bass voice is singled out for the vihuelist to sing should he wish. I have giiven the mode as mode 5, transposed to C, although Lockwood describes as Ionian, but no vihuelist expresses his musical ideas in anything other than the classic eight-mode system. H.M.Brown,“Richafort” in New Grove describes “Quem dicunt homines” as "a model of formal clarity".

The text is a paraphrase of Matthew 16: 13-16.

The copy used by Daza as the model for his intabultation has not been established with complete certainty, but the 1532 edition of “Motteti del fiore” by Jacques Moderne is the most likely candidate. In Lockwood’s edition of the Richafort motet (lockwoodQUEM), the list of sources includes 8 prints and 11 manuscripts, signifying a broad transmission. The prints are (by RISM no): 1532/10, 1538/7, 1538/8, 1539/12, 1545/4, 1553/2, 1555 Richafort motets, 1564/6. The MSS are from Cambrai, Leiden, Madrid, Padua, Regensburg, Rome, St Gallen, Toledo, Treviso and Venice. The presence of two Spanish copies is possibly significant, Medinaceli 607, no 17; Tioledo Bibl. Capit. MS B, mus. 10, fol. 34ff.). The Lockwood edition is based on the Roman MS Bibl. Vaticana, Cap Sist. MS46, fol. 89ff.