Altovita: 68 Sacred songs
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68 Sacred songs
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Scoring summary: V (4)
Subject: Sacred songs
Original Title: CONTRA- | PUNCTUS SEU | FIGURATA MUSICA SUPER | PLANO CANTU MISSARUM | SOLENNIUM TOTIUS ANNI. | Cum Privilegio Regio per quinquennium | ab Anno Domini. M. CCCCCXXVIII. | mense Augusto. | Venundantur Lugduni in edibus Stephani guaynard | prope divam virginem Mariam de Confort.
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  • Source type:
    Source type: Print
    Content type: Notated music
    Date:
    1528
    Publishing, printing and production information:
    Place: Lyon Etienne Gueynard (dit Penet) 1528 01
    Publisher, copyist: Etienne Gueynard (dit Penet)
    Material:
    Format, extent: 1 choirbook: 90 f.
    Parts held and extent: Containing: Antiphona ad aquam benedictam per totum annum; In nativitate Domini; In festo Sancti Stephani; In festo Sancti Joannis evan.; In festo Epiphanie Domini; In purificatione B. Marie Virginis; In resurrectione Domini; In Ascensione Domini; In die penthecostes; In festo Trinitatis; In festo Corporis Christi; In nativitate Sancti Joannis baptiste; In festo Assumptionis B. Marie virginis; In festo omnium sanctorum; Antiphona ad aquam benedictam tempore paschali; Antiphona ad beatam virginem Mariam; Pia ad deum precatio; Canon: Tres in unum sub unisono
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Notes: 90 fols.
On fol. 1v: dedication headed "Bernardus Guarnerus typographus, Bernardo Altovitae Patricio Florentino S.P.D.," and dated "Lugduni ex Chalcographia nostra nono Calendas Septembres. Anno a Deiparae virginis partu sesquimillesimo vicesimooctavo," followed by a poem headed "Guillelmi Goberti Item Chalcographi Dialogus."
On fol. 2: preface headed "Item Chalcotypi ad Lectorem."
On fol. 81: table of contents.
This collection of settings of propers of the Mass for feasts of the highest rank includes intonations in chant; the Tenor is written throughout in chant notation.
The entire collection has been edited in a modern edition in RRMR 21-22.
The contents listed here give textual incipits for Responsory and Alleluia verses even where those are omitted in the 1528 table of contents, which lists merely the incipits of the polyphony. Thus, the Responsory verse for the Mass at Christmas (no. 3) is cited as "Finis primi versus. Justitiam.", and the Alleluia verse (no. 4) as "Finis secundi versus. Super omnem terram."
RISM series: B/I, A/I
Source of description note: GB-Lbl K.9.a.23.
External Links: Early Music Online
Bibliographic reference: p. 87-107 no. 9
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France
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United Kingdom
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Material held: defective
Notes: Imperfect: wanting leaves 79-[81], supplied in photographic facsimile, and lacks the gatherings of blank music staves at the end.

Italy
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RISM ID no.: 993104007
Last update: July 11, 2024