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Missa sine nomine

Identification

Composer

[anonymous] (credited)

Appears in

Voices

4

Alternative title

Missa [de sancto Andrea?]

Category

polyphony

Genre

mass

Structure

Kyrie
        Kyrie (4v)
        Christe (4v)
Gloria
        Et in terra pax (4v)
        Qui tollis (4v)
Credo
        Patrem (4v)
        Et incarnatus (2v)
        Et resurrexit (2v)
        Confiteor (4v)
Sanctus
        Sanctus (4v)
        Benedictus (4v)
Agnus dei
        Agnus dei - Miserere (4v)
        Agnus dei - Dona nobis (4v)

Additional information

[Strohm 1985] suggests this mass being a Missa [de sancto Andrea] but [Roth 1991] refutes this theory. Strohm about Lucca choirbook: 'Mass no. 7a, a very fine work for four voices, is also known from the Cappella Sistina choirbook CS14, where it has a decorated initial showing St Andrew'.
V-CVbav-ms-Capp.Sist.14: Christe and Kyrie in one musical section / Et incarnatus and Et resurrexit: [Superius] and [Contratenor]: 'Duo'; 'Tenor': 'Et incarnatus tacet, Et resurexit tacet'; 'Contra[bassus]: 'Et incarnatus tacet'

Bibliography

Woetmann 2018a Peter Woetmann Christoffersen, 'An Experiment in Musical Unity, or: The Sheer Joy of Sound: The Anonymus Sine nomine Mass in MS Cappella Sistina 14', in Danish Yearbook of Musicology 42 (2018), 54-78.
Roth 1991 Adalbert Roth, Studien zum frühen Repertoire de Päpstlichen Kapelle unter dem Pontifikat Sixtus' IV. (1471-1484): Die Chorbücher 14 und 51 des Fondo Cappella Sistina der Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Capella Apostolicae Sixtinaeque Collectanea Acta Monumenta 1) (Città del Vaticano, 1991). 118
Strohm 1985 Reinhard Strohm, Music in Late Medieval Bruges (Oxford, 1985). 126-27; 195
Feininger 1947-48 Laurence K. Feininger (ed.), Monumenta Polyphoniae Liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae, Series I: Ordinarium missae and Series II: Proprium missae (Rome, 1947-48).

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