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Agnus Dei de la Missa L’ Homme armé super voces musicales [Josquin]

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 3v

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Source title Este Agnus se puso por estos terminos, por q[ue] caso q[ue] algunos puntos faltan otros se añade[n], tercera en primero traste se señala la claue de cesolfaut, el ca[n]to es la cifra colorada. Tercero grado sobre canto llano.
Title in contents   Agnus dei en el tercero grado añadido en ciertas ptes, a quatro vozes, Josquin
Text incipit Agnus dei.


Music

Category intabulation

Genre mass

Fantasia type

Mode 1?

Voices 4

Length (compases) 246

Vihuela

Tuning A

Courses 6

Final VI/5

Highest I/10

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty difficult

Tempo fast

Song Text

Language LA

Vocal notation cifras rojas texted

Commentary

This intabulation is of the Agnus Dei from the “Missa L’ Homme armé super voces musicales” by Josquin des Pres. The name of the author is disclosed in the table of contents, but not the name of the work. Valderrábano’s rubric preceding the tablature tells that “This Agnus has been set in this tuning because even though some notes are missing, others are added. Much of it is a literal intabulation of the work first published in Venice in 1502 by Petrucci in his Liber primus missarum, but there are some phrases omitted and others added. (see Gil 2017, 285). Another version for vihuela is in Pisador 1552, fol. 51.