Mass 'Upon the Square' (William Whytbroke)
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- (Posted 2023-11-24) CPDL #77562:
- • MIDI files: Kyrie: Gloria: Credo: Sanctus: Agnus Dei:
- Editor: Jason Smart (submitted 2023-11-24). Score information: A4, 46 pages, 1.33 MB Copyright: CC BY NC ND
- Edition notes: Edited from the Gyffard Partbooks. Original note values and voice layout retained. Transposed down a fifth to compensate for the high clefs.
General Information
Title: Mass 'Upon the Square'
Composer: William Whytbroke
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Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: TTBB
Genre: Sacred, Mass
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
Manuscript 1572 in the Gyffard Partbooks, no. 73
Description: Although nominally for four voices (Ct Ct T B), this mass is composed in short sections, most of which use various combinations of three voices. It uses as cantus firmi 'squares': monophonic mensural voices apparently drawn from the tenor parts of fifteenth-century or earlier compositions. The squares migrate between all four voices, but always in the bass register, resulting in some extraordinarily wide voice compasses.
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Original text and translations
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