Ave Maria

Composer

Ribera, Antonio de

Reference source

E-TZ 2/3, ff. 258v-259r

Musical parameters

Voices	Mensuration	Clefs	Final
4	e	c1c4c4f4	D

Edition

Score

Editor

E. Rodríguez-García

Special musical devices

In the first section, 'Dominus tecum' is inserted thrice in the text, acting as a refrain. The second section is made out of a string of litany-like pleas to the Virgin using the formula 'ora pro nobis'.

The use of 'Dominus tecum' as a refrain also appears in the anonymous motet Gabriel angelus.

Other modern editions

Borg, Paul W, “The Polyphonic Music in the Guatemalan Music Manuscripts of the Lilly Library” (unpublished Ph.D dissertation, Indiana University, 1985), vol. 2, pp. 262, 297-99

Freis, Wolfgang, “Cristóbal de Morales and the Spanish Motet in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century: An Analytic Study of Selected Motets by Morales and Competitive Settings in SEV-BC 1 and TARAZ-C 2-3” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Chicago, 1992), pp. 423-26

PA 9, pp. 51-54

Calahorra Martínez, Pedro, Autores hispanos de los siglos XV-XVI de los Ms. 2 y 5 de la Catedral de Tarazona, Polifonía Aragonesa, 9 (Zaragoza: Institución Fernando el Católico, 1995)

Bibliography

Freis, Wolfgang, “Cristóbal de Morales and the Spanish Motet in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century: An Analytic Study of Selected Motets by Morales and Competitive Settings in SEV-BC 1 and TARAZ-C 2-3” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Chicago, 1992)

Rees, Owen, “The Coimbra Manuscripts and the ‘Spanish Court Repertory’: The Motet Peccavi domine”, in Musical Exchanges, 1100-1650: Iberian Connections, ed. by Manuel Pedro Ferreira, Iberian Early Music Studies, 2 (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2016) pp. 191-208

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>

Sources including this piece

Source	Location in source	Attribution and other inscriptions	Notes
E-TZ 2/3	ff. 258v-259r	Aº Ribera	—
P-Cug MM 048	f. 39v	—	—
P-Ln CIC 60	ff. 1v-2r	—	—
US-BLl 01	3v-4r	—	—