Pange lingua I | Archive of Iberian Polyphony

Composer

Reference source

E-Bbc M. 454, ff. 148v-149r

Musical parameters

Voices	Mensuration	Clefs	Signature	Final
4	c	c1c3c4c5	A	F

Edition

Score Commentary

Editor

J. P. d'Alvarenga

Special musical devices

The piece uses the entire more hispanum chant as a structuring cantus firmus in the Tenor.

Notes

The text of verse 1 is underlaid in all four parts; in E-Bbc M. 454, verses 3, 'In supremae nocte', and 5, 'Tantum ergo', are fully written out on f. 148v between the S and T voice parts and on f. 149r below the B voice part.

This piece survives in some fifty sources from the Iberian Peninsula and the New World, ranging from the early 16th to the late 19th century. For a non-exhaustive list of these sources, see Kreitner's 2004 article referred to below, p. 13, table 4. On the version in P-Pm MM 40, see Nelson (2016), pp. 113-15.

Other modern editions

Gerber, Rudolf, ed, Spanische Hymnar um 1500, Das Chorwerk, 60 (Wolfenbüttel: Möseler Verlag, 1957), pp. 17-19, based on E-TZ Ms. 2/3

Turner, Bruno, ed, Five Spanish Liturgical Hymns complete with their mensural chants as set by Francisco Peñalosa and Johannes Wreede/Juan de Urreda, Mapa Mundi, Series A, 90 (Lochs: Vanderbeek & Imrie, 1996), pp. 19-21, based on E-TZ Ms. 2/3

Bibliography

Esteve Roldán, Eva, “La creación de un himno para la Nueva Hispania”, in Juana I en Tordesillas: su mundo, su entorno, ed. by Miguel Ángel Zalama (Valladolid: Grupo Página, 2010) pp. 395-406

Kreitner, Kenneth, The Church Music of Fifteenth-Century Spain, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2004), pp. 72-78

Kreitner, Kenneth, “The Musical Warhorses of Juan de Urrede”, Fontes Artis Musicae, 51 (2004), 1-18

Nelson, Bernadette, “Urrede’s Legacy and Hymns for Corpus Christi in Portuguese Sources: Aspects of Musical Transmission and Influence”, in Musical Exchanges, 1100-1650: Iberian Connections, ed. by Manuel Pedro Ferreira, Iberian Early Music Studies, 2 (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2016) pp. 89-116

Sources including this piece

Source	Location in source	Attribution and other inscriptions	Notes
E-Bbc M. 454	ff. 148v-149r	—	—
E-TZ 2/3	ff. 9v-10r	vrreda Jn festo corporis christi hymnus (f. 9v), Jo. Vrede (tabla)	Clefs are c1c3c3f3 and the stave signature has one flat in all voice-parts
P-Pm MM 40	ff. 241v-242r	In festo corporis xpj.	The same as above