Kyries tenebrarum

Updated on 22/07/2021
Text incipit
Kyrie eleison
Composer
Reference source
I-Nn Cod. I.E.32, ff. 250r-262r
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
Cardoso, José Maria Pedrosa, ed, Cerimonial da Capela Real: Um manual litúrgico de D. Maria de Portugal (1538-1577) Princesa de Parma (Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2008), pp. 147-57
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>
Text details
Sources including this piece
Source Location in source Attribution and other inscriptions Notes
I-Nn Cod. I.E.32
ff. 250r-262r
Chyrios Das Treuas Feria Quarta in nocte (f. 250r); Feria Quinta (ff. 253v, 254r); Feria sexta (f. 258v)
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