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Enríquez de Valderrábano

Quanti mercenarii [Morales]

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 50v

va078

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Source title [vihuela 1]: Vihuela mayor. El te[m]ple es como el antes deste / q[ue] es en tercera menor. Segundo grado. / [vihuela 2]: Vihuela menor. Esta vihuela lleua el canto llano del pater noster, y entra a do estuuiere esta señal ∴ no se señala el dicho canto llano en la cifra / por que a vezes le toma la vihuela mayor. Primero grado.
Title in contents   Quanti mercenarii en tercera menor a -- Morales.
Text incipit Quantii mercenarii


Music

Category intabulation

Genre motet

Fantasia type

Mode 1

Voices 6

Length (compases) 114

Vihuela

Tuning A & C

Courses 6

Final V/5

Highest I/1

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty easy + med.

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language

Vocal notation

Commentary

An itabulation of a motet by Morales in six voices for two vihuelas at the minor third. Prima pars only is intabulated. Valderrábano’s rubric specifies: [vihuela 1] Large vihuela. The tuning is like the previous piece, a minor third. Second grade. [Vihuela 2]: Smaller vihuela. This vihuela carries the cantus firmus of Our Father, and it enters where you see the sign [ ]. The said cantus firmus is not shown in the tablature because sometimes it is in the bigger vihuela. First grade. The cantus firmus, in the tenor voice, is the plainchant of the Lord’s Prayer. Re vocal model, see Anglés in Morales, Opera Omnia, II, Texto, 37; Ruiz Izquierdo, Biblioteca de la Iglesia… Tarazona, 116; Sevillano (1961), 156; Schöner (1999), 216. The original polyphony is found in several Spanish manuscripts including Tarazona, Catedral, Libros de Polifonía, MS 4.