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Assiste parata [Gombert]

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 45v

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Source title En vnisonus. Segundo grado. Assiste parata
Title in contents   Assiste parata en unisonun a cinco Gombert.
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Music

Category intabulation

Genre motet

Fantasia type

Mode 1

Voices 5

Length (compases) 155

Vihuela

Tuning G & G

Courses 6

Final IV/2

Highest I/5

Lowest VI/2

Difficulty medium

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language

Vocal notation

Commentary

An intabulation for two vihuelas in unison of a motet by Gombert, “Assiste parata,” the 2ª pas of “O beata Maria.” Vihuela one is medium difficuly [segundo grado]; vihuela 2 is easy [primero grado]. The duet was reprinted in Phalèse, Hortus Musarum [1552/11], Nº 86, p. 82, written in letter tablature, with some divisions added.

Song Text

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Gombert, Nicholas. Opera Omnia. Ed Joseph Schmidt-Görg. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae, 6. 11 vols. N.p.: American Institute of Musicology, 1951-75.

Printed source(s)

Moderne, Jacques (ed). Tertius liber mottetorum ad quinque et sex voces. Lyon: J. Moderne, 1538.

Gombert, Nicholas. Musica… (vulgo motecta quinque vocum nuncupata), in qua facile comperies quantum in hac arte, inventione alijs omnibus praevaleat… liber primus. Venezia: Girolamo Scotto, 1539.

Gardane, Antonio (ed). Secundus liber cum quinque vocibus. Fior de mottetti tratti dalli Motteti del fiore. Venezia: A. Gardane, 1539.

Gombert, Nicholas. Musica quatuor vocum, (vulgo motecta nuncupatur), lyris maioribus, ac tibijs imparibus accomodata… liber primus. Venezia: Girolamo Scotto, 1539.

Moderne, Jacques (ed). Tertius liber mottetorum ad quinque et sex voces… Motetti del Fiore. Lyon: J. Moderne, 1542.

Manuscripts

[Bologna] Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale Q27I