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Enríquez de Valderrábano

Peccavi supra numerum [Willaert]

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 16v

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Source title Quarta en tercero traste se señala la claue de fefaut, va vn ca[n]to llano sbre tibi soli peccaui, conocersea en vnos puntillos que van allegados a vuna cifra negra. Tercero grado.
Title in contents   Peccavi supra numerum, en el tercero grado a cinco. Adriano.
Text incipit Peccaui supra numerum


Music

Category intabulation

Genre motet

Fantasia type

Mode 1

Voices 5

Length (compases) 153

Vihuela

Tuning E

Courses 6

Final VI/5

Highest I/10

Lowest VI/3

Difficulty difficult

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language LA

Vocal notation texted cifras rojas

Commentary

Faithful intabulation of Willaert’s five-voice motet, first published in 1539. Modestly ornamented with diminutions aimed more at enhancing the voice leading than for virtuosic display.The work was first printed in Willaert’s first book of five-voice motets published by Scotto in 1539 (RISM 1539c - W 1110, Scotto) (reprinted in 1550) and Peter Schäffer’s Cantiones quinque vocum selectissimae published in Strasbourg in 1539. The text of the motet is from the Responsory for the feast of Summer Histories (Cantus Index 7372). It is work no 375 in the Willaert Foundation website http://www.adriaenwillaert.be/index.html

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

Schiltz, Katelijne, and Hilary Staples. “Motets in Their Place: Some 'Crucial' Findings on Willaert's Book of Five-Part Motets (Venice, 1539)”. Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 54 (2004): 99-118.

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.

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Song Text

Peccavi super numerum arenae maris
Peccavi et multiplicata sunt peccata mea
et non sum dignus videre altitudinem caeli
prae multitudine iniquitatis meae.
Quoniam irritavi iram tuam
et malum coram te feci

My sins are innumerable, like the sand of the sea,
All the transgressions, are my won sins!
Not worthy am I to behold thy glory above
through the burden of my sins which I have laid upon me.
I have aroused your righteous anger
For evil have I done in thy sight.

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Willaert, Adrian. Opera Omnia. Roma: Hermann Zenck y Halter Gerstemberg. American Institute of Musicology, 1950. (ed.).

Printed source(s)

Willaert, Adrian. Musica quinque vocum... liber primus. Venice: Girolamo Scotto, 1539.

Manuscripts