Rex autem David

Composer

Anonymous

Reference source

P-Ln CIC 60, ff. 12v-14r

Musical parameters

Voices	Mensuration	Clefs	Signature	Final
4	e	c2c4c4f4	-	E

Edition

Score Commentary

Editor

O. Rees

Notes

For a list of non-Iberian sources for this piece, see Ham 2011. 

Ham has tentatively suggested Juan de Anchieta and Antonio de Ribera as possible composers of this piece, on stylistic grounds (see Ham 2011, p. 326).

Bibliography

Ham, Martin, “‘Rex autem’: Another Iberian Lament in Rhau’s Symphoniae jucundae?”, in Pure Gold: Golden Age Sacred Music in the Iberian World. A Homage to Bruno Turner, ed. by Tess Knighton and Bernadette Nelson, De Musica, 15 (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2011) pp. 309-26

Text details

Rex autem David

Sources including this piece

Source	Location in source	Attribution and other inscriptions	Notes
P-Cug MM 032	ff. 56v-57r	—	—
P-Cug MM 048	f. 54r	—	A setting freely based on the version copied on f. 123v, incorporating its S as the A
P-Cug MM 048	f. 123v	—	Textless except for incipit
P-Ln CIC 60	ff. 12v-14r	—	Mensuration sign in the Tenor part only