Guatemala City’s Cathedral Choirbook 1 - Symbolic Corpus

Here is the list of all the works contained in the first polyphonic choirbook held at the Archivo Histórico Arquidiocesano de Guatemala (AHAG). The 12 masses are divided into movements, and the 15 short polyphonic pieces are divided into sections. Clicking on links provided for each movement of the masses (or sections of the pieces) will open the movement (or section) in mei-friend, where you will be able to see the transcribed score with the editorial corrections marked in a different color, together with the original images and the ability to play back the music.

1. Asperges me (Anonymous or Pedro Bermúdez)

2. Asperges me (Anonymous)

3. Vidi aquam (Pedro Bermúdez)

4. Vidi aquam (Hernando Franco)

5. Asperges me (Trujillo)

6. Missa sobre las voces (Cristóbal de Morales)

His hexachord mass (Ut re mi fa sol la). Peserved in only three other sources: a manuscript at the Capilla Real in Granada, the manuscript formerly known as Medinaceli 607 and now owned by Bartolomé March Servera, and Tarazona 5.

7. Missa sine nomine (Palestrina)

First published in the composer’s Missarum liber secundus in 1567 (RISM P 660)

8. Missa Pere de nous (Pierre Colin)

Also published at Lyon in 1546 by Jacques Moderne in his Liturgicon musicarum duodecim missarum (RISM C 3310).

9. Missa de 3er tono (Rodrigo de Ceballos)

Missa tertii toni, which is preserved in at least ten other sources.

10. Missa sine nomine (José de Torres y Martínez Bravo)

11. Missa O quam gloriosum (Tomás Luis de Victoria)

12. Missa Ave maris stella (Tomás Luis de Victoria)

13. Missa de 5to tono (Maestro Serra)

14. Missa de 4to tono (Alegre)

15. Missa de 8to tono (Rodrigo de Ceballos)

This is Ceballos’ Missa Simile est regnum cælorum (parody mass based on a motet by Morales).

16. Missa de Bomba (Pedro Bermúdez)

17. Missa sine nomine (Juan Matias de Rivera)

18. Christus natus est (Pedro Bermúdez)

19. Christus natus est (Pedro Bermúdez)

20. Christus natus est (Anonymous)

21. Surrexit Dominus vere (Anonymous)

22. Lumen ad revelationem (Hernando Franco)

23. Lumen ad revelationem (Pedro Bermúdez)

24. Lumen ad revelationem (Pedro Bermúdez)

25. Surrexit Dominus vere (Anonymous)

26. Victimae paschali laudes (Francisco Guerrero)

27. Tantum ergo (Pedro Bermúdez)