Sweelinck's Hexachord Fantasia

HEXACHORD-BASED PIECES MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO (with sources where available):

Vocal:

• Antoine Brumel (ca. 1460-1512), Missa Ut re mi fa sol la [1503]. Manuscript shown in the video is Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Capp.Sist.45 [link].

• Christobal de Morales (ca. 1500-1553), Missa sobre las voces [cpdl].

• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (ca. 1525-1594), Missa Ut re mi fa sol la [original print 1570] [cpdl] [imslp].

Keyboard:

• William Byrd (1543-1623); found in The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (No.101) [imslp].

• Eustache Du Caurroy (1549—1609); found in Fantasies a 3, 4, 5 et 6 parties (1610), no. 38 [imslp].

• Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (ca. 1555-1635).

• John Bull (1562-1628); 1. Version with the cantus firmus mainly in the sopran, The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (No. 215) [imslp], 2. Version with the hexachords transposed in all the voices, The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (No. 51) [imslp].

• Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621); found [also] in The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (No.118) [imslp]. On the imslp link there is also a four-part score I made especially for this episode. Manuscript copy: Christ Church Mus 1113 [link].

• Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612); Ricercar in Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, sezione Musicale [imslp], and a Fantasia in the same library as well as in Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria.

• Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656). Seven(!) hexachord fantasias [one of them: imslp].

• Charles Guillet (1578-1654).

• Peeter Corner (ca. 1580-1633).

• Benjamin Cosyn (1580-1653); found in the British Library: MS R.M.23.l.4, no. 26, ff. 42b-44b [link].

• Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643); found in Il primo libro di capricci, no.1 and 2 [imslp].

• Francisco Correa de Arauxo (1584-1654)

• Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654); found in Tabulatura Nova, Part I (No.4) [imslp].

• Johann Klemm (ca. 1593-1660)

• Giovanni Battista Fasolo (1598-1680); “fuga quarta sopra ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la”, found in Annuale, Op.8 (No.51) [imslp].

• Gregorio Strozzi (1615-1687); found in Capricci da sonare cembali et organi [imslp].

• Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667); found in Libro secondo, A-Wn Mus.Hs.18706, part ii, no. 1 [imslp].

• Juan Bautista Cabanilles (1644-1712); Tiento lleno quinto tono Sobre ut re mi fa sol la, found in Libro de obras de organo (No.61) [imslp].

Credits:

Created by Elam Rotem, October 2020.

Special thanks to Alon Schab, Anne Smith, and Johannes Keller.