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- Title
O soberana luz: a spiritual madrigal and a Mass for Philip IV, monarch of the Hispanic kingdoms.
- Authors
Serrano, Francesc Villanueva
- Abstract
The polyphonic models for five of the six imitation or parody Masses published by the Portuguese composer Filipe de Magalhães in his Missarum liber (Lisbon, 1636) are well known. However, for the sixth, O soberana luz , only tentative musical or contextual connections with works by other composers have been suggested, none of which satisfy the criteria for them to be considered as a model. In this article, I reveal that the homonymous spiritual madrigal by Stefano Limido is undoubtedly the piece that Magalhães used as the basis for his Mass. In addition, Magalhães's general compliance with Pedro Cerone's theoretical recommendations of 1613 for compositions of this type is demonstrated. In light of this information, new ideas are put forward—and previous ones re-evaluated—about the creative context of both works in the courtly circles of Philip IV, who was at that time the absolute sovereign of the Iberian Peninsula. An edition of the previously unpublished madrigal by Limido is included in the Appendix.
- Subjects
GUERRERO, Francisco, ca. 1528-1599; SPANISH music; REES, Owen; ROMERO, Mateo; MUSICAL intervals &; scales
- Publication
Early Music, 2019, Vol 47, Issue 3, p307
- ISSN
0306-1078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/em/caz039