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Miguel de Fuenllana

Benedictus de la Missa L’homme armé [Morales]

 

Orphenica Lyra (1554), fol. 40v

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Source title De la missa de Lome arme de Morales. F.
Title in contents   Benedictus d[e] la missa de Lome arme. Morales.
Text incipit Benedictus


Music

Category intabulation

Genre mass

Fantasia type

Mode 4

Voices 4

Length (compases) 88

Vihuela

Tuning G

Courses 6

Final V/4

Highest I/7

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty easy

Tempo not specified

Song Text

Language LA

Vocal notation texted cifras rojas

Commentary

Fuenllana’s intabulation of the four-voice “Benedictus” movement of Morales Missa L;homme armé. In this particular setting, the “Benedictus” is a movement in its own right. The alto voice is based on five repetitions of an ostinato cantus firmus in long notes: e-f-e-d-c-b (shown in red ciphers) of 18 tablature measures. Schöner (135) suggests that the 1544 Roiman edition (RISM M3582) is the most likely source of model.

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.

Stevenson, Robert. Spanish Cathedral Music in the Golden Age. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1961.

Morales, Cristóbal de. Opera omnia. Ed. Higinio Angles. Monumentos de la música española 11, 13, 15, 17, 20, 21, 24, 34 etc. Barcelona and Rome: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Delegación de Roma, 1952-

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

Alern, Francesc Xavier. “La música ficta en las secciones de misa de Cristóbal de Morales adaptadas para vihuela y laúd”. Roseta 8 (2013-2014): 6-29.

Maňáková, Kateřina. “The Process of Vihuela Intabulation of Sacred Music in 16th-Century Spain”. DIss. MMus. Royal Conservatory of the Hague, 2023.

Recordings

mito03 Music for vihuela 2. Endechas Si los delfines mueren de amores. Shigeo Mito

Song Text

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Morales, Cristóbal de. Opera omnia. Ed. Higinio Angles. Monumentos de la música española 11, 13, 15, 17, 20, 21, 24, 34 etc. Barcelona and Rome: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Delegación de Roma, 1952-

Printed source(s)

Morales, Cristóbal de. Missarum liber secundus. Lyon: J. Moderne, 1551 (1552).

Morales, Cristóbal de. Missarum liber secundus. Roma: Valerio Dorico & Lodovico fratres, 1544.

Manuscripts

E-Mb Ms R. 6832 (862) [olim: Biblioteca de la Casa del Duque de Medinaceli, MS 607]