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Enríquez de Valderrábano

Infirmitatem nostram [Verdelot]

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 7v

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Source title Tercera en primero traste se señala la claue de fefaut. Tercero grado.
Title in contents   Infirmitatem nostram* en el tercero grado a quatro. Verdelot
Text incipit Infirmitatem nostram.


Music

Category intabulation

Genre motet

Fantasia type

Mode 2

Voices 4

Length (compases) 118

Vihuela

Tuning D

Courses 6

Final V/0

Highest I/10

Lowest VI/3

Difficulty difficult

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language LA

Vocal notation texted cifras rojas

Commentary

Intabulation of Verdelot’s motet “Infirmatem nostram,” first published by Attaingnant in Paris in 1534. Subtitled “contra pestem” (against the plague) in Pierre Attaingnant's 1534 edition, this motet is a setting of an ancient prayer against disease. The motet was later republished twice in Germany: 1538 in Novum et insigne opus musicum (Ott and Formschneider), Volume 2, no. 22; 1559 in Novum et insigne opus musicum (Berg and Neuber), Volume 2, no. 22 (https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Infirmitatem_nostram_(Philippe_Verdelot)) consulted 7/03/2022.
Even though Valderrábano lists it as a four-voice work, the model is in five voices ATTTB. Valderrábano’s intabulation is very close to the original, there are no five-note chords anywhere in the intabulation.

Editions

Gil Martín, Gracia María. “’Silva de sirenas’ de Enríquez de Valderrábano (Valladolid, 1547): Contexto de un libro de música en cifra para vihuela y edición de sus arreglos de polifonía vocal”. Ph D diss. Universidad de Valladolid, 2017.

Literature

Gil Martín, Gracia María. “’Silva de sirenas’ de Enríquez de Valderrábano (Valladolid, 1547): Contexto de un libro de música en cifra para vihuela y edición de sus arreglos de polifonía vocal”. Ph D diss. Universidad de Valladolid, 2017.

Recordings
Song Text

Infirmitatem nostram quaesumus,
Domine, propitius respice,
et mala omnia quae iuste meremur
omnium Sanctorum tuorum
intercessionibus averte.
Per Christum Dominum nostrum.

We beseech you, O Lord, be propitious
and show concern for our weakness, and,
through the intercessions of all your Saints,
turn away from us all the evils
which we have justly deserved.
Through Christ our Lord.

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Attaingnant, Pierre. Treize livres de motets parus chez Pierre Attaingnant en 1534 et 1535. Ed. A. Smijers and A. Tillman Merritt. Paris : Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, 1934-1964.

Printed source(s)

Phalèse, Pierre (ed.). Hortus musarum in quotanquam flosculi quidam selectissimorum carminum. Louvain: Pierre Phalèse, 1552

Attaingnant, Pierre (ed.). Liber quartus XXIX. musicales quatuor vel quinque parium vocum modulos habet. Paris: P. Attaignant, 4 vol, 1534.

Manuscripts