P-Cug (Coimbra) Biblioteca Geral da Universidade MM 0242
P-Cug MM 0242
Modern pencil inscription/ signature top fol. 001r: F Macedo. (Identifed as Francisco Lopes Lima de Macedo, c. 1859-1939; see Estudante (2019)). Main heading in MS, in additional to titles above pieces: ‘Vermudo Pera Tanger’ (fol. 81r); ‘Obras pera Tanger de Antonio cabeçon o cego’ (fol. 102r)
good
score format
184 + i fols
Irregular gathering structure comprised of 23 gatherings. The following collation, revising slightly the collation shown in Rees (1995), pp. 339-41 (Table 14), is based on an examination conducted in November 2020: A8 (fols. 1–8) Aa1 (fol. 9) B8 (fols.10–17) C8 (fols.18–25) D6 (fols. 26–31) E8 (fols. 32–39) F10 (fols. 40–49) G6 (fols. 50–55) H8 (fols. 56–63) I8 (fols. 64–71) J8 (fols. 72–79) K8 (fols. 80–87) L14 (fols. 88–101) M8 (fols. 102–109) N6 (fols. 110–114; N4 removed with stub fragments pasted to fol. 113) O8 (fols. 115–120; O2 and O7 removed leaving stubs, which explains why the music on fol. 116 is incomplete) P8 (fols. 121–127; P2 removed leaving stub) Pa1 (fol. 128) Q8 (fols. 129–136) (Q3–6 are of a different paper type compared to the surrounding leaves) R14 (fols. 137–150) S6 (fols. 151–155; fol. 151 is a single leaf pasted to fol. 152) T4 (fols. 156–158; T4 was removed; T1 is loose) U8 (fols. 159–167) V10 (fols. 168–177) W8 (fols. 178–[185]).
Soft light beige leather covers (original?)
ANGLÉS, Higinio (ed.), La Música en la Corte de Carlos V, Monumentos de la Música Española 2 (Barcelona, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Español de Musicología, 1944) [= MME 2]
KASTNER, Macario Santiago, ‘Los manuscritos musicales n. 48 y 242 de la Biblioteca General de la Universidad de Coimbra’, in Anuario Musical, vol. 5, Barcelona: Instituto Español de Musicología, 1950, pp. 78-96
BROWN, H.M., Instrumental Music Printed Before 1600: A Bibliography (Cambridge, MA, 1965) [= BrownI]
FERNANDES, Cremilde Rosado and KASTNER, Santiago (eds.), Antologia de Organistas do Século XVI, Portugaliae Musica 19 (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 1969) [= PM 19]
KASTNER, Macário Santiago (ed.), Antonio de Cabezón und Zeitgenossen. Kompositionen für Tasteninstrumente, (Musikverlag W. Zimmermann, Frankfurt, 1973). [=Antonio de Cabezón und Zeitgenossen, ed. Kastner]
JACOBS, Charles (ed.), Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Antonio de Cabezón, vol. 5: Intabulationen und Opera Incerta (Institute of Mediaeval Music: Henryville, 1986). [= Cabezón, Gesamtausgabe, vol. 5]
REES, Owen, Polyphony in Portugal c. 1530 – c. 1620. Sources from the Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra (New York & London: Garland, 1995), pp. 325-64; 408-11
NELSON, Bernadette, ‘The Chansons of Thomas Crecquillon and Clemens non Papa in Sources of Instrumental Music in Spain and Portugal, and Sixteenth-Century Keyboard Traditions’, in Beyond Contemporary Fame. Reassessing the Art of Clemens non Papa and Thomas Crecquillon, ed. Eric Jas, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers n.v., 2005, pp. 167-89 [= Nelson, ‘The Chansons of Thomas Crecquillon’]
DOBBINS, Frank, and HAM, Martin, ‘Thomas Crecquillon: Chansons – Principal Sources and Concordances’, in Beyond Contemporary Fame. Reassessing the Art of Clemens non Papa and Thomas Crecquillon, ed. Eric Jas, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers n.v., 2005, pp. 347-85
NELSON, Bernadette, ‘”D’oû vient cela?” – Franco-Flemish influences in English and Spanish keyboard music during the sixteenth century’, in Cinco Siglos de Música de Tecla Española | Five Centuries of Spanish Keyboard Music. ed. Luisa Morales (Garrucha: LEAL, 2007), pp. 47-69
DODERER, Gerhard, ‘Os manuscritos MM 48 e MM 242 da Biblioteca da Universidade de Coimbra e a presença de organistas ibéricos‘, in Revista de Musicología, vol. 34, no. 2 (2011), pp. 43-62
OLIVEIRA, Filipe M. de, ‘A génese do tento para instrumentos de tecla no testemunho dos manuscritos P-Cug MM 48 e MM 242 (com uma edição crítica dos ricercari de Jacques Buus e das suas versões recompostas)’, Dissertação de Doutoramento, Universidade de Évora, 2011 [= Oliveira, ‘A génese do tento’]
CRISÓSTOMO, Pedro, ‘António Carreira: 4 peças inéditas para orgão’, Masters thesis, 2 vols. (University of Évora, 2013). [= Crisóstomo, ‘António Carreira’]
OLIVEIRA, Filipe M. de, ‘Some aspects of P-Cug, MM 242: António Carreira’s keyboard tentos and fantasias and their close relationship with Jacques Buus’s ricercari from his Libro primo (1547)’, in Interpreting Historical Keyboard Music: Sources, Contexts and Performance, ed. Andrew Woolley and John Kitchen (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 7-18.
OLIVEIRA, Filipe M. de, ‘The Verset and Fabordão Genres in The Context of Music Manuscript 242 from the Coimbra University Library’, Portuguese Journal of Musicology, new series, 2/1 (2015), pp. 41-60.
NELSON, Bernadette, ‘Bermudo’s masters and models of excellence for keyboard players in sixteenth-century Spain’, Revista de Musicologia 39/1 (2016), pp. 77-115
ESTUDANTE, Paulo, ‘História recente dos cartapácios da Universidade de Coimbra – Homenagem aos pioneiros da Musicologia Portuguesa’ / ‘Recent history of the cartapácios at the University of Coimbra – Tribute to the Pioneers of Portuguese Musicology’, Escola de Música da Sé de Évora: conferências, (Lisbon: Edições Colibri, 2019), pp. 105-137 / 139-178