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Alonso Mudarra

Respice in me, Deus (= Je ne me puis tenir d’aimer) [Josquin]

 

Tres libros de música en cifra (1546), fol. III/4

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Source title
Title in contents   Respice in me deus de Gomberth.
Text incipit Respice in me deus


Music

Category intabulation

Genre motet

Fantasia type

Mode

Voices 4

Length (compases) 154

Vihuela

Tuning F#

Courses 6

Final VI/3

Highest I/8

Lowest VI/1

Difficulty not specified

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language LA

Vocal notation puntillos texted

Commentary

Mudarra attributes this work to Gombert, but it is a contrafactum of Josquin’s chanson Je ne me puis tenir d’aimer (Josquin, Wereldlijke Werken, no 31). The same music is found in Fuenllana with the text Lauda Sion.(Fu061) and also attributed to Gombert. A polyphonic setting of this Lauda Sion is found in Archivo Falla 975. For the stemma, sources and a transcription of the chanson, see B.J. Blackburn, “Josquin’s Chansons: Ignored and Lost Sources”, JAMS 29 (1976): 30-76. See JacobsMC (204, nº57) for another version with the same music.