Missa sine nomine

Updated on 21/08/2020
Text incipit
Kyrie [e]leison
Reference source
Musical parameters
Sections/Movements Voices Mensuration Clefs Signature Final
1. Kyrie
4
e c2c4c4f4 -
D
2. Et in terra pax (Gloria)
4
e v n c2c3c4f4 -
D
3. Patrem omnipotentem (Credo)
4
e v c2c3c4f4 -
D
4. Sanctus
4
e c2c4c4f4 -
D
5. Agnus Dei
4
e c2c4c4f4 -
D
Edition
Editor
E. Rodríguez-García
Special musical devices

Head-motive at the beginning of the Kyrie, Gloria, and Credo.

Scattered use of long-note motives, with the appearance of a cantus firmus (of unidentified origin).

Notes

The Gloria concordance in P-Cug MM 012 belongs to a composite mass, the layout of which is clarified in Kreitner 2014 and Rodríguez-García 2019.

Bibliography
Kreitner, Kenneth, “Spain Discovers the Mass”, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 139/2 (2014), 261-302
Rodríguez-García, Esperanza, “What Did the Composer Antonio de Ribera Learn from Alonso Pérez de Alba at Seville Cathedral? A New Look at Ribera’s Missa sine nomine and Devotional Motets”, Portuguese Journal of Musicology, new series, 6/1 (2019), 29-61 <http://rpm-ns.pt/index.php/rpm/article/view/367>
Kreitner, Kenneth, “The Tordesillas Perplex”, in The Anatomy of Iberian Polyphony around 1500, ed. by Esperanza Rodríguez-García and João Pedro d’Alvarenga, Iberian Early Music Studies, 5 (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2021) pp. 15-26, forthcoming
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