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Per illud ave [Josquin]

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 87v

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Source title Josquin. Tercero grado Per illud ave.
Title in contents   Duo Per illud aue en el tercero grado.Josquin.
Text incipit


Music

Category intabulation

Genre motet

Fantasia type

Mode 7

Voices 2

Length (compases) 67

Vihuela

Tuning A

Courses 6

Final IV/0

Highest I/5

Lowest V/3

Difficulty difficult

Tempo fast

Song Text

Language

Vocal notation

Commentary

Intabulation of the 2ª pars of Josquin’s motet “Benedicta es regina caelorum”. The setting is in two voices and is quite literal but with some divisions added earlier in the piece to match the faster notes in the ending of Josquin’s original which, on the vihuela, results in extended passages in parallel thirds. The complete motet is available at https://imslp.org/wiki/Benedicta_es%2C_coelorum_regina%2C_NJE_23.13_(Josquin_Desprez), accessed 10/10/2022. The text of this section is as follows.
Per illud ave prolatum
Et tuum responsum gratum
Est ex te Verbum incarnatum,
Quo salvantur omnia.
(Through that spoken "Hail" / And your pleasing response / The Word became flesh from you / By whom all are saved.)

The earliest printed copy of the model is in RISM 1520/4, fols. 59v-68. A list of manuscript sources is on DIAMM (https://www.diamm.ac.uk/compositions/35882/)

Recordings
Song Text

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

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

Printed source(s)

Grimm and Wirsung. Liber selectarum cantionum quas vulgo mutetas appellant sex quinque & quatuor vocum. [Augsburg] : [Grimm und Wirsung], 1520

Manuscripts