Miguel de Fuenllana
Una compostura con dos canto llanos: Ave Maris stella y Gaudeamus
Orphenica Lyra (1554), fol. 168
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| Source title | Siguese vna compostura del author con dos ca[n]to llanos diferentes, el del aue maris stella y que va puntado en canto de organo, y Gaudeamus q[ue] es el de la cifra colorada con la tercera en el tercero traste. |
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| Title in contents | Los dos ca[n]tos llanos de Gaudeamus y Aue maris stella. |
| Text incipit | Aue maris stella |
Music
Category cantus firmus
Genre chant
Fantasia type
Mode 1
Voices 6
Length (compases) 62
Vihuela
Tuning D
Courses 6
Final V/0
Highest I/5
Lowest VI/0
Difficulty not specified
Tempo not specified
Song Text
Language LA
Vocal notation texted cifras rojas staff notation
Commentary
A composition by Fuenllana based on two cantus firmi: Ave Maris stella and Gaudeamus. The well-known Vespers hymn, Ave Maris stella, is notated sparately in mensural notation and the Gaudeamus is shown in the tablature in red ciphers. The indication to pitch the voice starting on the third fret of the third course, III/3, indicates a vihuela in D. The Gaudeamus chant is used as an ostinato in what is presumably the tenor voice. This ostinato is the beginning of the “Gaudeamus omnes” chant, the Introit for the Mass of the Crown of Thorns (LU 1368; LU 1571; LU 1751, etc). Its pitch sequence is closely related to the melody of the Vespers hymn.
