Source title | Quarta en tercero traste se señala la claue de cesolfaut, y sexta en sexto traste do[n]de esta vna señal, entra el contrabaxo en fuga de la cifra colorada que se a de cantar. |
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Title in contents | Ave Maria en el tercero grado a cinco. Loyset. |
Text incipit | Aue maria |
Category intabulation
Genre motet
Fantasia type
Mode 1 or 2
Voices 5
Length (compases) 83
Tuning B
Courses 6
Final VI/3
Highest I/6
Lowest VI/1
Difficulty difficult
Tempo medium
Language LA
Vocal notation texted cifras rojas
Intabulation of a motet attributed to Loyset (surname not given) setting the Ave Maria text. No other source of this piece is known. Valderrábano’s rubric reads: “Fourth course on the third fret is the c clef, and the sixth course sixth fret of the where there is a sign is where the contrabass in canon with the voice in red notes which is to be sung”. This implies the rather unusual tuning of the vihuela in B. The fifth voice, the canonic bass, is realised in the tablature version. Loyset Compère and Loyset Pieton are among the likely composers. Finscher/Pietschmann in MGG2 attribute this intabulation to Pieton.
Ave Maria gratia plena
dominus tecum
benedicta tu in mulieribus
et benedicta fructus ventris.
Alleluia.
Hail Mary, full of grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women
Blessed is the fruit of thy womb,
Alleluia.