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Miguel de Fuenllana

Crucifixus

 

Orphenica Lyra (1554), fol. 162v

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Source title Comiença la musica para guitarra. Crucifixus a tres. D.
Title in contents   Crucifixus a tres.
Text incipit Crucifixus


Music

Category intabulation

Genre mass

Fantasia type

Mode 5 or 6

Voices 3

Length (compases) 72

Vihuela

Tuning [G]

Courses 4

Final III/0

Highest I/8

Lowest IV/0

Difficulty difficult

Tempo not specified

Song Text

Language

Vocal notation

Commentary

Intabulation of the “Crucifixus” section from an unidentified polyphonic mass. The intabulation seems to be made for a guitar tuned as the inner four courses of a vihuela in G: C-f-a-d’. Fink (fink2010) proposes that the model for the work is the Crucifixus from Guerrero’s Missa Surge propera amica mea. This does not really convince me despite some similarlites. More likely, they may be different works based on the same cantus firmus or something along those lines.
A manuscript copy of this piece is in E-Mn-MP/2211/1