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Source title	Los dos tiples de este motete va[n] a fuga [e]n vnisonos: ca[n]tadose el q[ue] va en ca[n]to d[e] organo se podra gozar della: la cifra colorada es la boz del contrabaxo.
Title in contents	Manus tu[a]e domine, de Morales a cinco.
Text incipit	Manus tue domine

Music

Category intabulation

Genre motet

Fantasia type

Mode

Voices 6

Length (compases) 152

Vihuela

Tuning A

Courses 6

Final V/2

Highest I/8

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty not specified

Tempo not specified

Song Text

Language LA

Vocal notation texted cifras rojas staff notation

Commentary

An intabulation of a six-voice motet by Morales (not 5 voices as Schöner asserts). The tenor is given in staff notation, and the bassus in red ciphers. Fuenllana’s rubric says “the two cantus voices of this motet are a unison canon, singing the one that is in mensural notation it can be enjoyed: the red ciphers are the contrabass voice.” Concerning the vocal work see: Anglés, in Morales, Opera Omnia, VIII, Texto, 27 and the other cited writings by Anglés, Enrique y Cagnolo, Russell and Schöner.

Additional copies of the polyphony:
El Escorial, Libros de Polifonía, MS 5, fol. 72v-74
Málaga, Catedral, MS 4, fol 47v-51
Valladolid, Archivo Musicol de la Catedral, Ms. without signature, Item 7, fol. 20v -23