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Enríquez de Valderrábano

Antequam comedam [Ruffo]

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 18v

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Source title Quarta en vazio se señala la claue de fefaut, la boz colorada q[ue] se a de ca[n]tar y tañer es contrabaxo. Tercero grado.
Title in contents   Antequam comedam en el tercero grado a cinco. Vicencio ruffo.
Text incipit Antequam comediam.


Music

Category intabulation

Genre motet

Fantasia type

Mode 1

Voices 5

Length (compases) 164

Vihuela

Tuning G

Courses 6

Final V/7

Highest I/8

Lowest VI/3

Difficulty difficult

Tempo slow

Song Text

Language LA

Vocal notation texted cifras rojas

Commentary

Intabulation of a five-voice motet by Vincenzo Ruffo published in Milan in 1542, quite close to the date of publication of Silva de sirenas. The text is biblical: Job 3:24-26, and used as a Responsory at Matins on the 17th Sunday after Pentecost. It was set by many composers.

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

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.

Recordings
Song Text

Antequam comedam suspiro,
et tanquam inundantes aquæ
sic rugitus meus:
quia timor,
quem timebam,
evenit mihi
et quod verebar
accidit mihi.

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

For sighing has become my daily food;
my groans pour
out like water.
The fear
that I feared
has come upon me;
What I I dreaded
has happened to me.

I have no peace,
no quietness;
I have no rest,
but only turmoil.

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Ruffo, Vincenzo, Il primo libro de motetti a cinque voci. Milan, 1542. Ed. Richard Sherr. New York : Garland, 1987.

Printed source(s)

Ruffo, Vincenzo, Il primo libro de motetti a cinque voci. Milan: Castelione, 1542.

Manuscripts