O decus virgineum

Updated on 19/08/2020
Composer
Reference source
Musical parameters
Voices Mensuration Clefs Final
4
e c1c3c4f3
G
Edition
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
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
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