Magnificat, tone 8

Text incipit

Et exsultavit

Composer

[Urrede, Juan de]

Reference source

P-Cug MM 012, ff. 180v-186r

Musical parameters

Sections/Movements	Voices	Mensuration	Clefs	Signature	Final
2. Et exsultavit	4	c	c1c3c3f3	-	G
4. Quia fecit	2	e	c1c3	-	G
6. Fecit potentiam	4	c	c1c3c3c4	-	G
8. Esurientes	2	e	c1c3	-	G
10. Sicut locutus	4	c	c1c2c3f3	-	G
12. Sicut erat	2	e	c1c4	-	G

Edition

Score Commentary

Editor

J. P. d'Alvarenga

Notes

Although marked 'Duo', verses 4, 8, and 12 are in three voices. The added voice is a 'Contra', always written in c4 clef. In verse 12 this is labelled 'Contra. si place.'

Bibliography

Alvarenga, João Pedro d’, “Some Identifying Features of Late Fifteenth- and Early Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Polyphony”, in Musical Exchanges, 1100-1650: Iberian Connections, ed. by Manuel Pedro Ferreira, Iberian Early Music Studies, 2 (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2016) pp. 165-90

Sources including this piece

Source	Location in source	Attribution and other inscriptions	Notes
P-Cug MM 012	ff. 180v-186r	—	Added voice-part in verses 4, 8, and 12