E-TUY (Tuy) Archivo Capitular de la Catedral de Tuy L II

Archive: 
E-TUY (Tuy) Archivo Capitular de la Catedral de Tuy
Siglum: 
E-TUY 002
Shelfmark: 
L II
Source type: 
Polyphonic book
Subcategory of source: 
Choirbook
Category: 
polyphony
Completeness: 
complete or nearly complete
Document type: 
manuscript
Origin: 
Tui (E), Catedral
Main place of use: 
Tui (E), Catedral
Provenance: 
Tui (E), Catedral
Date: 
1696
Type of notation: 
Mensural (white)
Type of script: 
Roman round
Material: 
Parchment
Contents: 

8 Magnificats

Foliation/Pagination: 
47 folios. Original foliation
Page layout: 
Choirbook format
Condition of document: 
Fair/ good. Binding detached in places; other places, reinforced with pasted strip
Bindings: 
Brown leather over boards; metal bosses, corners and clasps
Decoration: 
Calligraphic intials with each new verse
Inscriptions: 

'Magnificas' inscribed on front cover. 'Magnificat / 8 Tonos', f. 1r. Names of Magnificat tones in Latin ('Primi toni. Magnificat A 4', etc) head each folio. Voice parts named in margins on each folio opening.
Staves drawn in red ink. Bar-lines are lightly drawn inconsistently in the voice parts.
Name of scribe and date on foot of f. 47r: 'Scripto mihi Francisco Gondiçalbo Rebelo 1696'

Remarks: 

Copied by Francisco Gondiçalvo Rebelo (see above).
Fragment (reversed) of polyphony used to paste folio opening together (ff. 4v-5r).
Source includes five unatttributed concordances of settings by Cristóbal de Morales.
[Si placet] parts added by second hand in settings by Morales: f. 10v (tone 2), f. 15r (tone 3), and f. 20r (tone 4)

References: 

Cristóbal de Morales: Sources, Influences, Reception, ed. Owen Rees and Bernadette Nelson (Woodbridge, The Boydell Press, 2007)

KASTNER, Macario Santiago, 'Notas sobre la música de la catedral de Tuy', Anuario Musical, 13 (1958), pp. 195-200

TRILLO, Joám, and VILLANUEVA, Carlos, La música en la catedral de Tui (La Coruña, Diputación de La Coruña, 1987)

External link: https://hispanicpolyphony.eu/institution/4264

Completed on: 
2016-03-16
Indexed by: 
Bernadette Nelson
Description author/s: 
Bernadette Nelson
Reviewed by: 
João Pedro d'Alvarenga