Sub tuum praesidium (Obrecht)
Sub tuum praesidium is made around 1492-1496 Marienmesse the composer Jacob Obrecht .
Emergence
The mass was commissioned during Obrecht's stay in France for Maximilian I's Easter celebration in St. Martin's Basilica in Hall 1503. In 1503, Maximilian I received a gift in Namur from the court of Maximilian I , “because of an Ambts Regina celi So he vnns made ”, by which Sub tuum praesidium is meant.
Musical structure
In the mass cantus firmi are used, in the sentence it is kept isorhythmic . In addition, the number of voices increases with each sentence from three voices in Kyrie to seven in Agnus Dei. The Ordinariumstexte be sung by tenor II, bass and alto II, the remaining voices carry in the form of tropical seven Marian songs before, including appearing in each set and when cantusfirmus used sub tuum praesidium . The cantus firmus stands in isolation and is presented in long, equal note values , so that the cantus planus of the underlying Marian antiphon is preserved.
The sentences are:
literature
- Ludwig Finscher : Obrecht (PDF; 5.8 MB) . In: Music in the past and present . 2nd Edition. JB Metzler and Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1994. Sp. 1257-1272. ISBN 3476410226
- Gerhard Dietel: Music history in data . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 1994. p. 130. ISBN 3423033215
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Birgit Lodes : Gregor Mewes' "Concentus harmonici" and Jacob Obrecht's last masses . Habilitation thesis University of Munich 2002 (printing in preparation).