Libro Qvarto delle Messe in Spartitvra di Paolo Agostini Laus Deo da Vallerano. Maestro di Capella della Sacrosanta Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano. - Agostini, Paolo 1583-1629 (Rome Giovanni Battista Robletti, 1627)
Five voices and basso continuo. Mass sections are mostly non-canonic. The Christe can be sung either by four or five voices. The three-part Benedictus can be sung four ways (one of which is canonic). The Agnus Dei II can be sung 14 ways by means of a retrograde bass line and an optional sixth voice in canon with it at the 12th above. The top of each page has a canon in closed notation (i.e., one part only with signs to indicate how other parts are derived). Includes a set of 28 canons placed at the top of 30 or the 40 pages in this volume. In two cases, a solution is provided to a canon appearing on the previous page. Canons are unrelated liturgically to scored Mass sections underneath them. Letter names of voices (C, B, A, T) are used sometimes instead of presa (.s.) signs to indicate entries of comites. Two or three staves only are used for notating the canons. In most cases, one canonic dux may occupy all staves; in other cases (double canons), canonic duces occupy different staves. Comites are not written out. No barlines.
Dedication dated "Di Roma, il di 29. di Luglio. M.DC.XXVII". Mentions G.B Nanino in paragraph one ("mio suocero") and both Nanino brothers in paragraph 2. Basso Continuo: pp. 38-40. Resolutions to canons not given (instructions and presa signs). Many have more than one solution.
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Keywords: Mass Ordinary Setting; Score