Inviolata (Heinrich Isaac)

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• (Posted 2025-02-22)  CPDL #83950:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2025-02-22).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 84 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed up a fourth and completed. Where the texting in the source was seriously out of sync with the other voice parts (which was the case throughout most of the Bassus part), the underlay has been altered.

General Information

Title: Inviolata
Composer: Heinrich Isaac
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: STTTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1508 in Motetti a cinque libro 1 (Ottaviano Petrucci), no. 7
Description: Published by Petrucci, Venice, 1508. The plainchant appears as a cantus firmus both in the lowest voice and, in canon, an octave higher. As the canon is more alternating than overlapping, the resultant texture is mostly four-part rather than five. The ostensible pitch is very low, with the bottom part in F5 clef. Curiously, this part is designated as 'Contratenor primus'. Presumably the part in the missing partbook would have been Contratenor secundus, although without a doubt written in a higher range than the 'primus'.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Inviolata integra et casta.