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Peccavi supra numerum [Willaert]

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 16v

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Source title Quarta en tercero traste se señala la claue de fefaut, va vn ca[n]to llano sbre tibi soli peccaui, conocersea en vnos puntillos que van allegados a vuna cifra negra. Tercero grado.
Title in contents   Peccavi supra numerum, en el tercero grado a cinco. Adriano.
Text incipit Peccaui supra numerum


Music

Category intabulation

Genre motet

Fantasia type

Mode 1

Voices 5

Length (compases) 153

Vihuela

Tuning E

Courses 6

Final VI/5

Highest I/10

Lowest VI/3

Difficulty difficult

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language LA

Vocal notation texted puntillos cifras rojas

Commentary

Accurate intabulation of Willaert’s motet, first published in 1539. Modestly ornamented with diminutions aimed more at enhancing the voice leading than for virtuosic display.
Work no 375 in the Willaert Foundation website http://www.adriaenwillaert.be/index.html

Earliest printed sources:
1539, Venice, Girolamo Scotto, Famosissimi Adriani Willaert. musica quinque vocum . liber primus. reprinted in 1550.
1539, Strasbourg, Peter Schäffer, Cantiones quinque vocum selectissimae
RISM: 1539c - W 1110 (Scotto) / 15398 / 154725 (intab.) / 155410/ 1550a - W 1111 / 15568

Text: Dodenofficie
In Q doorheen het ganse werk: Tibi soli peccavi (soggetto cavato dalle vocali: mi-mi-sol-mi-re-fa-mi)

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Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Willaert, Adrian. Opera Omnia. Roma: Hermann Zenck y Halter Gerstemberg. American Institute of Musicology, 1950. (ed.).

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