Missa Maria zart - Obrecht, Jacob

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"Four part cantus firmus mass utilising the segmentation technique based on a monophonic german devotional song. At 1448 breves, this is probably the longest polyphonic mass setting ever composed and certainly the longest attributed to Obrecht. Stylistic analysis by Wegman indicates that this may well have been his last mass, composed during his trip through Tyrol. The cantus firmus is notated in the alto clef, and split into eight segments. The tenor, notated in the tenor clef, then joins the other voices in free polyphony for the Agnus Dei, while the Bassus states the entire cantus firmus in alternating breves and dotted semibreves in the first Agnus, and the Discantus states the entire cantus firmus in alternativing dotted breves and semibreves throughout."

⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Masses

♯ Key F major

⁄ Time Signature 3/2

♬ Voicing → ATTB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range F2 – D5

¶ Language → Latin

Measures 1333

Texture Homophonic

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 48

CPDL # 36043

Editor Charles Young

Posted 2015-07-13

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♫Pitch Ranges

Discantus

F3 – D5

Tenor

C3 – G4

Altus

B-2 – A4

Bassus

F2 – D4