Memorare piissima

Updated on 18/08/2021

Composer
Reference source: E-TZ 2/3, ff. 283v-284r
Musical parameters: Voices Mensuration Clefs Signature Final

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Edition: Score Commentary
Editor
Notes: This motet has two concurrent versions involving a significant variant on bars 68-70 (versions labelled II and IV in Hardie 1983; see also Alvarenga 2019). One of these two versions is transmitted by manuscripts P-Cug MM 12, MM 32, and E-Tc Cód. B. 21, and can be seen in the editions by Imrie and Stevenson; the other one appears in the remaining four sources of this piece. Despite the conflicting attribution, authorship by Escobar is generally acknowledged.
Other modern editions: Eslava, Hilarión, ed, Lira Sacro-Hispana: Gran colección de obras de música religiosa, 10 vol. (Madrid: M. Martín Salazar, 1852–1860), i, no. 8, pp. 42-49

Hardie, Jane Morlet, ed, Francisco de Peñalosa: Twenty-Four Motets, Collected Works, 14/1 (Ottawa: The Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1994), no. 13, pp. 78-88

Hardie, Jane Morlet, “The Motets of Francisco de Peñalosa and their Manuscript Sources” (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 1983), no. 12, pp. 386-95

Imrie, Martyn, ed, Pedro de Escobar (fl. 1507): Memorare Piissima, Mapa Mundi, series A, 224 (Lochs: Vanderbeek & Imrie, 2004)

Preciado, Dionisio, ed, Francisco de Peñalosa (ca. 1470-1528). Opera Omnia. Vol. I: Motetes (Madrid: Sociedad Española de Musicología, 1986), pp. 249-60

PA 9, no. 9, pp. 97-106
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)

Stevenson, Robert, “Pedro de Escobar among Spanish Musicologists”, Inter-American Music Review, 15/1 (1996), 53-145, at 108-115
Bibliography: Alvarenga, João Pedro d’, “On the Transmission of Iberian Polyphonic Music in the Early Decades of the Sixteenth Century: Some Philological Issues Revisited”, Portuguese Journal of Musicology, new series, 6/1 (2019), 5-28 <http://rpm-ns.pt/index.php/rpm/article/view/362/627>, at 14-18
Sources including this piece: Source Location in source Attribution and other inscriptions Notes

E-Bbc M. 454
ff. 162v-163r

Penalosa

—

E-Sc 1
ff. 31v-33r

Petrus escobar

—

E-Sco 5-5-20
ff. 15v-17r

EscoBar

Incomplete due to the lack of f. 16

E-Tc 21
ff. 78v-82r

PeñaLosa

—

E-TZ 2/3
ff. 283v-284r

escobar.

—

P-Cug MM 012
ff. 201v-203r

—

—

P-Cug MM 032
ff. 25v-26r

—

—; —; —; Incomplete due to the lack of f. 16; —; —; —; —

Source	Location in source	Attribution and other inscriptions	Notes
E-Bbc M. 454	ff. 162v-163r	Penalosa	—
E-Sc 1	ff. 31v-33r	Petrus escobar	—
E-Sco 5-5-20	ff. 15v-17r	EscoBar	Incomplete due to the lack of f. 16
E-Tc 21	ff. 78v-82r	PeñaLosa	—
E-TZ 2/3	ff. 283v-284r	escobar.	—
P-Cug MM 012	ff. 201v-203r	—	—
P-Cug MM 032	ff. 25v-26r	—	—