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Miguel de Fuenllana

Super flumina babilonis [Gombert]

 

Orphenica Lyra (1554), fol. 37

fu039

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Source title Motete a quatro de Go[m]bert. D.
Title in contents   Super flumina: de Gomber
Text incipit Svper flumina babilonis


Music

Category intabulation

Genre motet

Fantasia type

Mode 2

Voices 4

Length (compases) 258

Vihuela

Tuning G

Courses 6

Final VI/0

Highest I/7

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty difficult

Tempo not specified

Song Text

Language LA

Vocal notation cifras rojas texted

Commentary

Intabulation of a motet by Gombert, another of the works that Fuenllana seems likely to have drawn from Moderne’s 1532 print of Motetti del fiori (motets Fu031, Fu039, Fu043, Fu045, Fu049). The text is drawn from Pslam 136:1-4 (Psalm 137). The work appears to be in mode 2, transposed to G.

The vocal model is online at http://ks.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/0/0d/IMSLP402553-PMLP651865-Super_flumina_Babylonis.pdf (accessed 8/06/2019)

Editions

Fuenllana, Miguel de. Orphénica Lyra. Ed. Charles Jacobs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Literature

Schöner, Oliver. Die Vihuela de mano im Spanien des 16. Jahrhunderts. Europäsiche Hochschulenschriften, vol 198. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1999.

Pogue, Samuel F. Jacques Moderne: Lyons Music Printer of the Sixteenth Century. Geneva: Droz, 1969.

Lewis, Mary S. Antonio Gardano, Venetian Music Printer 1538-1569: A Descriptive Bibliography and Historical Study. Volume 1, 1538-1549. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1988.

Schmidt-Görg Joseph. Nicolas Gombert, Kapellmeister Karls V: Leben und Werk. Bonn: Ludwig Röhrscheid, 1938.

Recordings
Song Text

1 Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus, cum recordaremur Sion.
2  In salicibus in medio ejus suspendimus organa nostra:
3  quia illic interrogaverunt nos, qui captivos duxerunt nos, verba cantionum; et qui abduxerunt nos: Hymnum cantate nobis de canticis Sion.
4  Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?

1  By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept: when we remembered thee, O Sion.
2  As for our harps, we hanged them up: upon the trees that are therein.
3  For they that led us away captive required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness:
Sing us one of the songs of Sion.
4  How shall we sing the Lord's song: in a strange land?

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Gombert, Nicholas. Opera Omnia. Ed Joseph Schmidt-Görg. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae, 6. 11 vols. N.p.: American Institute of Musicology, 1951-75.

Apel, Willi. Historical anthology of music. Cambridge: Massachusetts Harward University Press, 1978-1982.

Printed source(s)

Moderne, Jacques. Primus liber cum quatuor vocibus. Motteti del fiore. Lyon: J. Moderne, 1532.

Gombert, Nicholas. Musica quatuor vocum, (vulgo motecta nuncupatur), lyris maioribus, ac tibijs imparibus accomodata… liber primus. Venezia: Girolamo Scotto, 1539.

Gombert, Nicholas. Gomberti Excellentissimi, et inventione in hac arte facile Principis, Chori Caroli Quinti Imperatoris Magistri, Music quatuor vocum (vulgo motecta nuncupatur), Additis etiam nonnullis Excellentissimi Morales Motectis summo ipsius studio concinnatis, opus nunquam alias typis excussum, ac nuper accuratißime in lucem aeditum. Liber primus quatuor vocum. Venice: Girolamo Scotto, 1541.

Petreius, Johannes (ed). Tomus tertius psalmorum selectorum quatuor et quinque, et quidam plurium vocum. Nürnberg: J. Petreius, 1542.

Gombert. Nicholas. Musica quatuor vocum, (vulgo motecta nuncupatur), lyris maioribus, ac tibijs imparibus accomodata… liber primus. Venezia: Girolamo Scotto, 1541.

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