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Nonne dissimulavi [Morales]

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 15

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Source title Este motete es del mesmo tono que este passado, y es el contrabaxo el que se canta. Segundo grado.
Title in contents   Nonne disimulavi en el segundo grado a quatro. Morales.
Text incipit No[n]ne no[n]ne dissimulavi


Music

Category intabulation

Genre motet

Fantasia type

Mode 1

Voices 4

Length (compases) 142

Vihuela

Tuning A

Courses 6

Final IV/0

Highest I/8

Lowest VI/3

Difficulty medium

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language LA

Vocal notation texted cifras rojas

Commentary

Literal intabulation of a four-voice motet by Morales that is the secunda pars of “Antequam comedam”. Pulished in Venice by Scotto in 1541. Mansucript copies in the cathedrals of Tarazona and Toledo. The text is biblical, drawn from Job 3:26 and Job 6:13, and is used in the liturgy as the 2nd Responsory on the First Sunday in September.

Recordings
Song Text

Nonne dissimulavi?
nonne silui?
nonne quievi?
Et venit super me
indignatio tua, Domine.

Ecce, non est auxilium mihi in me,
et necessarii quoque mei
recesserunt a me.

Have I not kept secret?
did I not remain silent?
did I not rest?
And it comes upon
your indignation, O Lord.

Behold, there is no help for me in me,
and my necessary friends
also take away from me.

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Morales, Cristóbal de. Opera omnia. Ed. Higinio Angles. Monumentos de la música española 11, 13, 15, 17, 20, 21, 24, 34 etc. Barcelona and Rome: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Delegación de Roma, 1952-

Printed source(s)

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.

Manuscripts

[Tarazona] Tarazona, Archivo Capitular de la Catedral, Ms. 1

E-Tc 13 Toledo, Catedral, Libros de Polifonía, MS 13