Kyries tenebrarum

Updated on 22/07/2021
Text incipit
Kyrie eleison
Composer
Reference source
Musical parameters
Sections/Movements Voices Mensuration Clefs Signature Final
1. Kyrie eleison
3
e c2c4f4 -
E
2. Domine, miserere
3
e c2c4f4 -
E
3. Qui passurus
3
e c2c4f4 -
E
4. Qui prophetice
3
e c2c4f4 -
E
5. Vita in ligno
3
e c2c4f4 -
A
6. Te qui vinceri
3
e c2c4f4 -
E
7. Idem in ligno
3
e c2c4f4 -
E
8. Sancti qui tenebantur
3
e c2c4f4 -
E
Edition
Editor
J. P. d'Alvarenga
Special musical devices

All sections paraphrase the late Medieval and early 16th-century Kyries tenebrarum chant used in the Portuguese Royal Chapel.

Other modern editions
Bibliography
Alvarenga, João Pedro d’, “Textual and Chant Traditions of the Kyries tenebrarum in Portugal, and Polyphony around 1500”, Portuguese Journal of Musicology, new series, 6/1 (2019), 91-112 <http://rpm-ns.pt/index.php/rpm/article/view/363/641>
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