Surveying the First Gaffurius Codex: Reconsiderations on the "Motetti missales" Paradigm

Title	Surveying the First Gaffurius Codex: Reconsiderations on the "Motetti missales" Paradigm
Publication Type	Book Chapter
Year of Publication	2019
Authors	Rossi, Francesco Rocco
Editor	Filippi, Daniele V., and Agnese Pavanello
Book Title	Motet Cycles between Devotion and Liturgy
Series Volume	Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Scripta 7
Pagination	381-395
Publisher	Schwabe
City	Basel

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ROSSI 2019B

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Cycle details

Reference source:

I-Mfd 1, ff. 84v-93r

Cycle rubric:

listed under "Motetti missales consequentes" as "Salve mater salvatoris gaffori | cum tota missa" (I-Mfd 1, index)

Identified as a cycle based on:

index of I-Mfd 1 (see Cycle rubric); consensus in the "motetti missales" literature

Number of voices:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c3c4c4

Final:

Devotional / liturgical association:

BVM

Modern editions:

AMMM 5, 75-104; MCE 4; MM 1 (see the records of the individual motets)

Further notes:

All the component motets are in more than one pars. Second/third partes are not listed in I-Mfd 1, index (except for the 3a pars of Imperatrix gloriosa), do not have separate attributions, and are linked with “verte folium” and/or “custodes”.

Content (motets):

M012 M014 M015 M016

C06 Salve mater salvatoris

Gaffurius, Franchinus

Cycle details

Reference source:

I-Mfd 1, ff. 99v-103r

Cycle rubric:

Identified as a cycle based on:

GASSER 2001, 384-393; see also Further notes

Number of voices:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c3c3c4

c1c3c4c4

c1c3c3c4

Final:

Devotional / liturgical association:

BVM

Modern editions:

AMMM 5, 119-124 (without "Eia mater"); GASSER 2001, 543-545 (for "Eia mater"); MM 1 (see the records of the individual motets)

Further notes:

GASSER 2001 was the first to include Eia mater in this cycle. According to ROSSI 2019B, 391-393, and MM 1, xxx, this cycle does not include Eia mater, and starts with the motet Verbum sapientiae (I-Mfd 1, ff. 98v-99r).

Content (motets):

M017 M018 M019 M020

C07 Castra caeli dum transcendo

Gaffurius, Franchinus

Cycle details

Reference source:

I-Mfd 1, ff. 126v-134r

Cycle rubric:

listed under "Motetti missales consequentes" (I-Mfd 1, index)

Identified as a cycle based on:

index of I-Mfd 1 (see Cycle rubric); consensus in the "motetti missales" literature

Number of voices:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c3c4f4

Final:

Devotional / liturgical association:

BVM

Modern editions:

AMMM 11, 13-43; CMM 106.3; MCE 5

Further notes:

See also information on this cycle as part of the Gaspar van Weerbeke Project.

Content (motets):

M031 M032 M033 M034 M035 M036 M037 M038

C12a Ave mundi domina

Weerbeke, Gaspar van

Cycle details

Reference source:

I-Mfd 1, ff. 134v-143r

Cycle rubric:

listed under "Motetti missales consequentes" (I-Mfd 1, index)

Identified as a cycle based on:

index of I-Mfd 1 (see Cycle rubric); consensus in the "motetti missales" literature

Number of voices:

Signature:

Clefs:

g2c2c3c4

g2c2c4c4/g2c2c3c4

Final:

G/G/G/G/D/G/G/G

Devotional / liturgical association:

BVM

Modern editions:

AMMM 11, 44-75; CMM 106.3; MCE 6

Further notes:

See also the shorter cognate cycles C13b and C13c.

See also information on this cycle as part of the Gaspar van Weerbeke Project.

Content (motets):

M039 M040 M041 M042 M043 M044 M045 M046

C13a Quam pulchra es (8 motets)

Weerbeke, Gaspar van

Cycle details

Reference source:

I-Mfd 3, ff. 125v-135r

Cycle rubric:

"Galeazescha" (I-Mfd 3)

Identified as a cycle based on:

presence of a cycle rubric and of "loco" rubrics; consensus in the "motetti missales" literature

Number of voices:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c4c4c4f4

Final:

Devotional / liturgical association:

BVM

Modern editions:

AMMM 13, 75-112; CMM 15.2; MCE 3

Discography:

Compère: Missa Galeazescha: Music for the Duke of Milan. Odhecaton, Paolo Da Col, Arcana-Outhere, 2017.

Further notes:

See also the cognate shorter cycle C14a.

GASSER 2001, 304-305, considers the cycle to consist of seven motets, instead of eight: see the notes to M075 and M076.

The version of M074 in I-Mfd 3 is longer than the one in I-Mfd 1.

Content (motets):

M071 M072 M073 M074 M075 M076 M077 M078

C14b Ave virgo gloriosa caeli iubar / ‹Missa› Galeazescha

[Compère, Loyset]

Cycle details

Reference source:

I-Mfd 1, ff. 162v-170r

Cycle rubric:

listed under "Motetti missales consequentes" as "Ave domine Iesu christe | cum reliquis totius misse" (I-Mfd 1, index)

Identified as a cycle based on:

index of I-Mfd 1 (see Cycle rubric); presence of “loco” rubrics; consensus in the "motetti missales" literature

Number of voices:

4/4/4/5/4/4/4/5

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c4c4f4

c1c4c4c4f4

c1c3c4f4

c1c4c4f4

c1c4c4c4f4

Final:

Devotional / liturgical association:

Christ, the Blessed Sacrament, BVM, St. Augustine

Modern editions:

AMMM 13, 12-43; CMM 15.2; MCE 2

Further notes:

Two of the motets (M054 and M058) have 5 voices.

Content (motets):

M051 M052 M053 M054 M055 M056 M057 M058

C16 Ave domine Iesu Christe

[Compère, Loyset]

Cycle details

Reference source:

I-Mfd 1, ff. 171v-179r

Cycle rubric:

listed under "Motetti missales consequentes" (I-Mfd 1, index)

Identified as a cycle based on:

index of I-Mfd 1 (see Cycle rubric); presence of “loco” rubrics; consensus in the "motetti missales" literature

Number of voices:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c3c4f4

Final:

Devotional / liturgical association:

Christ, BVM, Incarnation

Christmas, Christmastide

Modern editions:

AMMM 13, 45-73; CMM 15.2; MCE 1

Discography:

Loyset Compère: Mass, Motets, Songs. Orlando Consort, Metronome 1002

Content (motets):

M059 M060 M061 M062 M063 M064 M065 M066

C17 Hodie nobis de virgine

Compère, Loyset

Surveying the First Gaffurius Codex: Reconsiderations on the "Motetti missales" Paradigm

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