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Enríquez de Valderrábano

Ave Maria [Josquin]

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 17v

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Source title Tercera en. iii. traste se señala la claue de cesolfaut, y la cifra colorada es la boz, y en otra señal do esta[n] vnos puntillos entra la otra boz compañera de la q[ue] se canta que es la fuga. Tercero grado.
Title in contents   Ave Maria en el tercero grado a seys. Josquin.
Text incipit Aue Maria


Music

Category intabulation

Genre motet

Fantasia type

Mode 1

Voices 6

Length (compases) 154

Vihuela

Tuning G

Courses 6

Final VI/0

Highest I/7

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty difficult

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language LA

Vocal notation texted cifras rojas

Commentary

Intabulation of the secunda pars of Josquin’s six-voice motet “Pater noster”. The work is based on two cantus firmii in a three-bar canon in the two tenor voices. In Josquin’s original the canonic voice is indicated by the canon “Canon ad unisonum post tria tempora”. Valderrábano’s version indicates the canon and iuncludes it in the tablature, indicating it in the work’s rubric: “On the third [course] at the third fret is the c-clef, and the red ciphers is the voice [to sing], and at the sign of the [three] dots the companion voice enters which is also sung which is the canon.” Ward identified the model as reprinted in Werken, I , 5-11 (ward1953, 411). Gil was unable to locate a vocal model (gil2017, 380).

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Song Text

Ave Maria, gratia plena,
Dominus tecum,
benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui,
Sancta Maria,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus, .
Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee,
blessed art thou amongst women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
Holy Mary,
pray for us sinners,
Amen.

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

des Prez, Josquin. Werken van Josquin De Prés. Ed. A. Smijers. Amsterdam: Vereeniging voor Nederlandsche Muziekgeschiedenis, 1922-1969.

des Prez, Josquin. New Josquin Edition. Ed. W. Elders, et al. Utrecht: Vereniging voor Nederlandse Museikgeschiedenis, 1987.

Printed source(s)

Ott and Formschneider. Novum et insigne opus musicum sex, quinque et quatuor vocum. Nuremberg: Ott and Formschneider, 1537.

Manuscripts