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Enríquez de Valderrábano

Hic precursor et dilectus [Gombert]

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 9v

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Source title Tercera en tercero traste se señala la claue de cesolfaut, y la boz q[ue] se ca[n]ta es tenor. Segundo grado.
Title in contents   Hic precursor et dilectus en el segundo grado a quatro. Gombert.
Text incipit Hic precursor et dilectus


Music

Category intabulation

Genre motet

Fantasia type

Mode 2

Voices 4

Length (compases) 147

Vihuela

Tuning G

Courses 6

Final VI/0

Highest I/7

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty medium

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language LA

Vocal notation texted cifras rojas

Commentary

Valderrábano’s intabulation of a motet by Gombert, the secunda pars of Fuit homo missus (intablutated by Pisador = Pi069), another of the works that were printed in the 1532 Motteti del Fiore by Moderne. It is for the feast of John the Baptist. An instrumental setting is in Coimbra MS 48, fol. 41v-42. The intabulation corresponds closely to the vocal polyphony.

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

Schöner, Oliver. Die Vihuela de mano im Spanien des 16. Jahrhunderts. Europäsiche Hochschulenschriften, vol 198. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1999.

Pogue, Samuel F. Jacques Moderne: Lyons Music Printer of the Sixteenth Century. Geneva: Droz, 1969.

Lewis, Mary S. Antonio Gardano, Venetian Music Printer 1538-1569: A Descriptive Bibliography and Historical Study. Volume 1, 1538-1549. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1988.

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.

Schmidt-Görg Joseph. Nicolas Gombert, Kapellmeister Karls V: Leben und Werk. Bonn: Ludwig Röhrscheid, 1938.

Recordings
Song Text

Hic precursor et dilectus
et lucerna lucens ante dominum
ipse est enim Joannes
qui vian domino preparauit in heremo
fuit in deserto predicans et baptizans
baptismum penitentie

This is the well-beloved Fore-runner,
a shining light before the Lord.
For even this is John,
who made straight in the desert an highway for our God
He went into the desert preaching and baptising
baptising their penance

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Gombert, Nicholas. Opera Omnia. Ed Joseph Schmidt-Görg. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae, 6. 11 vols. N.p.: American Institute of Musicology, 1951-75.

Printed source(s)

Gombert, Nicholas. Musica quatuor vocum, (vulgo motecta nuncupatur), lyris maioribus, ac tibijs imparibus accomodata… liber primus. Venezia: Girolamo Scotto, 1539.

Gombert, Nicholas. Gomberti Excellentissimi, et inventione in hac arte facile Principis, Chori Caroli Quinti Imperatoris Magistri, Music quatuor vocum (vulgo motecta nuncupatur), Additis etiam nonnullis Excellentissimi Morales Motectis summo ipsius studio concinnatis, opus nunquam alias typis excussum, ac nuper accuratißime in lucem aeditum. Liber primus quatuor vocum. Venice: Girolamo Scotto, 1541.

Moderne, Jacques. Secundus liber cum quatuor vocibus. Motteti del fiore. Lyon: J. Moderne, 1532.

Gardane, Antonio (ed). Primus liber cum quatuor vocibus. Fior de mottetti tratti dalli motteti del fiore. Venice: A. Gardane, 1539.

Gardane, Antonio (ed). Flos florum primus liber cum quatuor vocibus. Motteti del fior. Venezia: A. Gardane, 1545.

Manuscripts

F-CA MS. 125-128 Cambrai, Bibliotheque Municipale, MS. 125-128 (olim 124).

D-Mu Art. 401 (olim Cim 44e) Munich, Universitätsbibliothek, MS Art. 401 (olim Cim 44e).

I-Pc MS D 27 Padua, Duomo, Biblioteca Capitolare, Curia Vescovile, MS D27.