This office of the Dead consists out of the following movements and is set for SSAT:
01. Libera me Domine , responsorio Modo I
02. Misa:
-Introito
-Kyries
-In memoria aeterna
-Secuencia
-Sanctus Y Benedictus
-Agnus Dei
-Lux aeterna
03. Invitatorio Modo VI
04. Parce mihi Domine Modo V
05. Responde mihi Modo II
06. Spiritus meus Modo II
07. Domine, quando veneris, response Modo I
08. Ne recorderis, response Modo VI
09. Libera me Domine Modo I
10. Requiescant in pace Modo VI
11. Deus qui nobis in sancta sindone Modo VI
12. Misa:
-Introito
-Kyries
-In memoria
-Secuencia
-Sanctus Y Benedictus
-Agnus Dei
-Lux aeterna
Diego de Torrijos composed this Officio de Difuntos, this Office of the Dead in Madrid at the end of the seventeenth century. De Torrijos has chosen a setting for four voices SSAT. That means this Officio can be sung by TTBB. Parts of this Officio are published in several sources found in the archives of the Monastery El Escorial. Several composers have set a Officio de difuntos or an Agenda Defunctorum we mention here Juan Vasquez (c. 1510-1560) with his imposing large Agenda defunctorum composed in 1556 and further we mention Gioseffo Zarlino (1517 – 1590), Officium Defunctorum ad Matutinum, tres Lectiones, Giovanni Matteo Asola (c.1528 – 1609), Officium defunctorum, Ginez Peres (1548 – 1612), Officium defunctorum, Giacomo Moro (c.1555 - c.1610), Officium and Missa defunctorum, Ambrosio (Coronado de) Cotes (c.1550 – 1603), Officium defunctorum, Francesco Cellavenia (c.1500 – 1567), Officium defunctorum, Christobal de Morales (c.1500 – 1553), Officium defunctorum, Estevão de Brito (c.1570 – 1641), Officium defunctorum, Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (1564 – 1627), Officium ac Missa defunctorum (1604), Officium defunctorum (1600), Duarte Lôbo (c.1565 – 1646), Officium defuntorum, Marco da Gagliano (1582 – 1642), Officium defunctorum, Estacio de la Serna (1570 – 1616), Officium defunctorum, Juan Esquivel de Barahona (c.1560 - c.1615), Officium defunctorum, Filipe de Magalhães (c.1571 – 1652), Officium defunctorum, Gregor Aichinger (1564 – 1628), Officium pro defunctis quinque vocibus, Domenico Belli (c.1560 – 1627), Officium defunctorum, Heinrich Schutz (1585 – 1672), Officium defunctorum, SWV 65, Christian Erbach (c.1570 – 1635), Officium pro fidelibus defunctis, Sebastián de Vivanco (c.1551 – 1622), Officium defunctorum, Gregorio Zucchini (c.1540 - c.1616), Officium pro defunctis.
Some Officium defunctorum/Office of the Dead have been published here at this great website. Sometimes the name doesn’t fit with the real meaning of the Office of the Dead formulated in and in accordance with the Liber Usualis (edition 1936, pages 1772-1805). Sometimes a Missa pro defunctis as such is categorised as an Officium/Office even by composers.
Return we to Diego de Torrijos. The Misa 2. and the Misa 12. mentioned above in the Officio de difuntos differ and are not of the same texture, but this total Officio is found in the same great Volume no. 1919 in Archivo de El Escorial. After the Lessons and Responds we mentioned the used Gregorian modes (Modo) by De Torrijos.
Of the Lesson Parce mihi Domine (40074) and Spiritus meus attenuabitur (40078) we found two other settings but in a setting for SATB in Catalogo de Rubio p. 27 folio 1v-6 no. 2 and page 27 folio 18v-24 no. 6. They are the same as we mentioned above under 4. and 6. but there set for SSAT.
This Officio de difuntos can be found in the Catalogo del Archivo del Monasterio de San Lorenzo El Real de El Escorial p. 561, no 1919. Several movements are found separately in El Escorial de Madrid Volume 27, page 105 more specific in the Catalogo de Rubio.
Author: | Wim Goossens
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