MEX-Pc MS III

Archivo de Musica Sacra de la Catedral, Puebla, Mexico

manuscript of polyphony: Second half of 17th century

Archive Archivo de Musica Sacra de la Catedral, Puebla, Mexico (MEX-Pc)
Shelfmark MS III
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Surface Paper
Numbering System Foliation
Measurements ca. 560 x 375 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: PueblaC 3
Notations
  • black void mensural
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Contents 19 pieces from 6 composers
General Description

Copied by a single scribe. Copied in Puebla, for use by cathedral choir (BarwickP). Probably copied in Seville, then sent to Mexico (RussellM). Canticle and motets are for Office for the Dead.

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Binding

Original covers of leather over boards.

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Notation

black void mensural

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Foliation

Original ink foliation, 1-3 + 6-101

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Decoration

Inked initials, most in calligraphic style, some in form of tree branches with leaves

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Surface

paper

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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2 Requiem Masses, 1 canticle, 18 motets = 21

Franco [f]-3, (Guerrero)-2, (Gutiérrez de Padilla)-2, Gutiérrez de Padilla [Padilla]-Saldaña-1, Morales-1, Saldaña-1, Tabares-1, anon-10

99 paper folios, ca. 560 x 375. Original ink foliation, 1-3 + 6-101. Original covers of leather over boards. No index. Copied by a single scribe. Inked initials, most in calligraphic style, some in form of tree branches with leaves. Canticle and motets are for Office for the Dead.

Second half of 17th century. Copied in Puebla, for use by cathedral choir (BarwickP). Probably copied in Seville, then sent to Mexico (RussellM).

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
5v–29 Requiem Mass (1582) -
Appears on: 5v–29
Genres: Mass Ordinary, Requiem
29v–31 Versa est in luctum cithara (5vv) -
Appears on: 29v–31
Genres: Motet
31v–38 Circumdederunt me dolores (6vv) -
Appears on: 31v–38
Genres: Motet
38v–39 Invitatorium pro defunctis: iii. Quoniam Deus -
Appears on: 38v–39
Genres: Motet
39v–40 Invitatorium pro defunctis: iv. Quoniam ipsius -
Appears on: 39v–40
Genres: Motet
40v–42 Invitatorium pro defunctis: v. Hodie si vocem -
Appears on: 40v–42
Genres: Motet
42v–43 Invitatorium pro defunctis: vii. Requiem aeternam -
Appears on: 42v–43
Genres: Motet
43v–47 Parce mihi (7vv) -
Appears on: 43v–47
Genres: Motet, Responsory
47v–51 Requiem (8vv): i. Requiem aeternam -
Appears on: 47v–51
Genres: Introit, Requiem
51v–54 Requiem (8vv): ii. Kyrie -
Appears on: 51v–54
Genres: Kyrie eleison, Mass Ordinary, Requiem
54v–59 Dies irae (8vv) (Sequence) -
Appears on: 54v–59
Genres: Sequence
59v Libera animas -
Appears on: 59v
Genres: Offertory, Requiem
68v Domine secundum -
Appears on: 68v
Genres: Motet
77v–78 Domine in furoire -
Appears on: 77v–78
Genres: Psalm
78v–79 Quoniam non est in morte -
Appears on: 78v–79
Genres: Motet
79v–80 Exaudivit Dominus -
Appears on: 79v–80
Genres: Motet
80v Parce mihi Domine -
Appears on: 80v
Genres: Motet
80v Te decet hymnus in Sion -
Appears on: 80v
Genres: Motet
91v Requiescat in pace -
Appears on: 91v
Genres: Motet, Requiem

denotes primary source study

Russell, Eleanor. 1978-80. A new manuscript source for the music of Cristobal de Morales: Morales' 'Lost' Missa pro Defunctis and early Spanish requiem traditions. Anuário Musical, 9-49. Pages: 13, 42. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Barwick, Steven. 1970. A Recently Discovered Miserere of Fernando Franco. Yearbook for Inter-American Musical Research, 77ff. Pages: 77. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Stevenson, Robert. 1970. Renaissance and Baroque Musical Sources in the Americas.  Washington, D.C. Pages: 208ff. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Spiess, Lincoln, and Thomas Stanford. 1969. An Introduction to Certain Mexican Musical Archives. Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography.  Detroit. Pages: 27. Notes: mention of MS.

Stevenson, Robert. 1961. Spanish Cathedral Music in the Golden Age.  Berkeley and Los Angeles. Pages: 107, 202-3. Notes: mention of MS; contents list (partial); transcription (partial).

Barwick, Steven. 1957. Puebla's Requiem Choirbook. Essays on Music in honor of Archibald Thompson Davison,  Cambridge, Massachusetts. Notes: physical description; contents list (partial); transcriptions (partial); mention of MS; discussion.

Stevenson, Robert. 1954-1955. Sixteenth and seventeenth century resources in Mexico. Fontes Artis Musicae, 69-78. Notes: contents list (partial).

Catalyne, Alice Ray. 1953. The Double-Choir Music of Juan de Padilla, Seventeenth Century Composer in Mexico. University of Southern California, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 341, 343-4, 348, 354. Notes: contents list (partial); concordances (partial).

Barwick, Steven. 1949. Sacred Vocal Polyphony in Early Colonial Mexico. Harvard University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: I, 90, 97, 187-9; II, 157-64, 166-8. Notes: physical description (partial); contents list (partial); transcription (partial).

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Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description