Transmission Features on Willaert´S “Magnum Hereditatis Mysterium” Motet for Four Voices: Text Placement as a Basis for a Stemmatic Filiation Investigation

• Fernando Luiz Cardoso Pereira ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade de São Paulo

     Universidade de São Paulo

     Brasil

     
• Localización: Comunica, Coneuta, Coneix: VIII Jornadas de Jóvenes Musicólogos. Libro de actas / coord. por Ana Llorens Martín, 2015, ISBN 978-84-608-3867-8, págs. 61-74
• Idioma: inglés
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  • As an extension of a project involving the evaluation of procedures for analysis of motets ‒ to be further applied over ricercares of same authorship in corresponding composition periods ‒ this study of early editions of a motet by Willaert showed text-underlay discrepancies that were evaluated on the basis of Renaissance treatises rules. The lack of correspondence between printed sources prompted an evaluation of the available manuscripts of this motet. Thus a detailed study was undertaken by registering the position of the text over a bar template based on Zenck’s 1950 edition. This confirmed the existence some stemmatic relationships between the various manuscripts. The weak correlation between the four printings suggested, however, that they descend from manuscripts, instead from each other, except for the Augsburg print. This evidenced the existence of two lines of transmission of this motet from Italy to Prussia, and corroborated the hypothesis that many of the surviving manuscripts are actually copies of printed sources.