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Enríquez de Valderrábano

Fantasía 16 sobre el Benedictus de la Missa Tua est potencia [Mouton]

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 71v

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Source title Fantasia sobre vn benedictus de la misa de Mouton tua est potentia del final. Septimo tono. Segundo grado.
Title in contents   Fantasia en el tercero grado remedando de la mitad adelante a vn benedictus de la misa de Mouton tua est potentia.
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Music

Category abstract

Genre fantasia

Fantasia type Par

Mode 7

Voices 3

Length (compases) 89

Vihuela

Tuning A

Courses 6

Final IV/0

Highest I/7

Lowest VI/3

Difficulty medium

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language

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Commentary

Parody fantasia. Tabla entry: “Fantasia en el tercero grado remedando de la mitad adelante a un benedictus…”
Straightforward short work of 89 compases. Parody is executed similarly to Mudarra’s glosas.
Begins with 3 voices making 4 entries of Mouton’s 1st theme, with note values diminished by half: that is pseudo a4 but really a3, (the 3rd entry doesn’t accord spacially with model, others do).
Then free polyphony to 43 where the original music dovetails into an intabulation of 2nd half of parody work. That is from the 23rd bar of the Benedictus edition. Benedictus = 46 bars length. 23/46 = 1/2; 43/89 aprox. equal 1/2. Conscious concern by Valderrabano for exact ratios that is formal structure. Pich-up point in model is completely arbitrary.

C.f. RISM 1532/2, Mass nº 1