O decus virgineum

Composer

Anonymous

Reference source

E-TZ 2/3, ff. 256v-257r

Musical parameters

Voices	Mensuration	Clefs	Final
4	e	c1c3c4f3	G

Edition

Score

Editor

E. Rodríguez-García

Notes

Because of its style, position among other motets by Francisco de Peñalosa in E-TZ 2/3, and later attributions in inventories of Tarazona Cathedral, the piece has been sometimes attributed to Peñalosa. However, the attribution pattern of the manuscript seems to suggest otherwise.

Other modern editions

Preciado, Dionisio, ed, Francisco de Peñalosa (ca. 1470-1528). Opera Omnia. Vol. I: Motetes (Madrid: Sociedad Española de Musicología, 1986), pp. 135-42 (attributed to Peñalosa)

Bibliography

Knighton, Tess, “Francisco de Peñalosa: New Works Lost and Found”, in Encomium musicae: essays in memory of Robert J. Snow, David Crawford and G. Grayson Wagstaff (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2002) pp. 231-57

Rodríguez-García, Esperanza, “Tarazona 2/3, Francisco de Peñalosa, and a ‘Dis-attributed’ Credo: New Light on the Origins of the Manuscript”, in The Anatomy of Iberian Polyphony around 1500, ed. by Esperanza Rodríguez-García and João Pedro d’Alvarenga, Iberian Early Music Studies, 5 (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2021) pp. 190-226

Sources including this piece

Source	Location in source	Attribution and other inscriptions	Notes
E-TZ 2/3	ff. 256v-257r	—	—