Magnificat tertii toni

Catalogue item

Catalogue number

[I.14]

Foliation

008v-010r

Title / Incipit

Magnificat tertii toni

Composer

Du Fay, Guillaume

Voices

Genre

Magnificat

Main rubric

Attribution notes

I-MC 871

Concordances in the Libroni

Concordances elsewhere

I-MC 871, pp. 330-333 (Du Fay); I-Rvat Capp. Sist. 15, ff. 95v-99r; I-Rvat MS S. Pietro B.80, ff. 200v-203r ("Tertii et quarti toni"; anon.); I-TRbc MS 1376 [89] ("Trent 89"), no. 614, ff. 165r-166r ("Tertii et quarti toni")

Modern editions

AMMM 7, 5-16; CMM 1.5, 91-94, no. 36; POPE-KANAZAWA 1978, 287-294, no. 74

Literature

KIRSCH 1966, 314-315. no. 747; POPE-KANAZAWA 1978, 602-603; NATVIG 1999, 270-275; RIFKIN 2003, 255; PLANCHART 2018, vol. 2, 440-441, 445-447

MS Inventory

I-Mfd1/008v

Further notes

Concordances based on POPE-KANAZAWA 1978, 602. Plainchant intonation of "Magnificat" in the Altus; complete text. Four couples of verses are sung on the same music ("Et exultavit" / "Fecit potentiam"; "Quia respexit" / "Deposuit"; "Quia fecit" / "Esurientes"; "Et misericordia" / "Suscepit Israel"). Based both on the third and the fourth Magnificat tones (NATVIG 1999, 271). Ascribed to Du Fay in I-MC 871; the attribution to Busnoys or an imitator proposed by NATVIG 1999 is based on stylistical reasons. According to Besseler (CMM 1.5, iii), this Magnificat is "certainly a creation of Dufay himself". The attribution to Du Fay is accepted by PLANCHART 2018. The Tenor section corresponding to the verses "Et misericordia" and "Suscepit Israel" has been copied on a slice of paper wrongly inserted between ff. 8v and 9r (instead of ff. 9v-10r).