Additional links:
Writings:
an overview
Principal
manuscript sources: a brief sketch
[Links to full descriptions of all sources will follow in due
course.]
| Bc | Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale,
MS 130. B. 2 (Italy, late 15th century) |
| Br | Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS II 4147 (Naples, early 1480s) Brief description Full description |
| Bu | Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 2573 (Naples, ? 1490s) Brief description |
| C | Cambrai, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS A16 (? North-East France, late 15th century) |
| F | Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, MS Plut. XXIX. 48 (Italy, late 15th century) |
| G | Ghent, Rijksuniversiteit Centrale Bibliotheek,
MS 70 (Ghent, 1504) |
| V | Valencia, Biblioteca General i Històrica de la Universitat, MS 835
(olim 844) (Naples, ? 1483–5) Brief description |
| Treatise & Principal Source(s) (approximate chronological order of final versions) |
Date | Edition | |
|---|---|---|---|
1. |
Speculum musices (Lost: contents perhaps incorporated into later treatises) |
? Before c. 1472 ? Orléans/Chartres |
— |
2. |
Expositio manus (Br; Bu; V) |
c. 1472–73 Naples |
Seay 1975: i. 27–57 trans. Seay 1965 (not recommended) |
3. |
Proportionale musices (Bc; Br; Bu; F; G; V; also Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS II 4149) |
Before c. 1475
(after (2)) Naples |
Seay 1975: iia; Woodley 1982 trans. Seay 1979 (not recommended) |
4. |
Liber imperfectionum notarum musicalium (Br; Bu; G; V) |
Before c. 1475
(after (3)) Naples |
Seay 1975: i. 139-67 |
5. |
Tractatus de regulari
valore notarum (Br; Bu; V) |
Before c. 1475
(after (4)) Naples |
Seay 1975: i. 121–38 |
6. |
Tractatus de notis
et pausis (Br; Bu; G; V) |
? Before c. 1475–80
(after (5)) Naples |
Seay 1975: i. 105–20 |
7. |
Tractatus alterationum (Br; Bu; G; V) |
? Before c. 1475–80 Naples |
Seay 1975: i. 169–79 |
8. |
Scriptum ... super punctis musicalibus (Br; Bu; G; V) |
? Before c. 1475–80 Naples |
Seay 1975: i. 181–98 |
9. |
Liber de natura et proprietate
tonorum (Br; Bu; V) |
Completed 6 Nov 1476 Naples |
Seay 1975: i. 59–104 trans. Seay 1976 (not recommended) |
10. |
Liber de arte contrapuncti (Br; Bu; V) |
Completed 11 Oct 1477 Naples |
Seay 1975: ii. 5–157 trans. Seay 1961 (not recommended) |
11. |
Complexus effectuum
musices (Br; C; G) |
First version before
1475; rev. & enlarged (within (12)) c. 1481–83 Naples |
Seay 1975: ii. 159–77; Strohm & Cullington 1996; Zanoncelli 1979; Woodley 1985 |
12. |
De inventione et usu musice Printed unicum of extracts ([Naples: Mathias Moravus], c. 1481–83) in Regensburg, Bischöflichen Zentralbibliothek, Proske-Musikbibliothek, H. 15; other extracts in C, fols. 8v–12v |
Complete work [lost] c. 1481, Naples; printed extracts c. 1481–83 [Naples] |
Weinmann 1961; Woodley 1985 |
13. |
Terminorum music[a]e
diffinitorium Rev. version printed Gerardus de Lisa, [Treviso,] c. 1495 MS sources: Br; Bc |
First version before 1475 (after (3)): Naples; rev. version c. 1495 | Panti 2004; Parrish 1978; facs. edn. Gülke 1983 |
14. |
Articuli et ordinatione
dell'ordine del Toson d'oro [Articles and instructions of the Order of the Golden Fleece] Italian trans. from Burgundian French Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS XIV. D. 20 |
c. 1474–77 Naples |
Woodley 1988; see also D'Agostino 1999 |
15. |
Letter to Joanmarco Cinico Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS XII. F. 50, fols. 11–14 |
c. 1495 Naples/Pozzuoli |
Woodley 1988 (& partial facs.) |
Note: Other letters probably written (cf. Trithemius 1495; Woodley 1981: 247), but lost. A second letter was possibly bound at some stage (in the 16th century?) with (15) above: see Woodley 1988: 196. See also the printed, dedicatory letter to Johannes Stokem bound with the Regensburg print of (12): Weinmann 1961: 27–8.
16. |
Mass: L'Homme armé 4 vv. (Additional texts incorporated: Kyrie: 'Cunctorum plasmatorum summus'; Sanctus: 'Cherubim ac Seraphim ceterique spiritus angelici'; Osanna: 'Pueri Hebreorum') Vatican Library, Cappella Sistina, MS 35, fols. 84v–103 |
? c. 1480–85 | Melin 1976: 74–114 |
17. |
Mass 4 vv.
[untitled] Gloria, Credo (truncated), Sanctus only Milan, Archivio della Cappella Musicale del Duomo, Librone 2 [olim MS 2268]), fols. 37v–43 |
? Late 1470s | Melin 1976: 55–73 ('Missa sine nomine No. 3') |
18. |
Mass 3 vv.
[untitled: low clefs] Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS 755, fols. 17v–26; Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013, fol. 86v (part: 'Domine Deus rex celestis': see Blackburn 1981) |
? 1470s or 1480s (inscription to Ferrante: see Biographical Outline: Music) |
Melin 1976: 1–32 ('Missa sine nomine No. 1') |
19. |
Mass 3 vv.
[untitled: high clefs] Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS 759, fols. 25v–31 |
? 1470s or 1480s | Melin 1976: 33-54 ('Missa sine nomine No. 2') |
20. |
Mass: Hélas ? vv. (Lost: cited by Gafori in his Tractatus practicabilium proportionum (Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS A 69, fol. 20v), and in letter from Giovanni del Lago to Lorenzo Gazio: see Blackburn 1991: 832. Perhaps based on (30) below, or on Caron's Hélas, que pourra devenir.) |
? Late 1470s | — |
21. |
Mass: Nos amis ? vv. (Lost: cited by Tinctoris in the prologue to his Tractatus alterationum; probably based on song by Basin; identified by Strohm 1979 as surviving in Prague, Strahov Monastery Library, MS D. G. IV. 47, but now regarded as unlikely. (Also concordances in Hradec Králové, Muzeum, MS II. A. 7 (Codex Speciálník), pp. 168–70 and Trent 89.) The attribution to Tinctoris in Speciálník, pp. 256–61 of the Credo from Josquin's Missa 'L'ami Baudichon' is also mistaken.) |
? Before c. 1475–80 | — |
22. |
Difficiles alios
delectat pangere cantus 3 vv. Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013, fols. 118v–122 Incipit only, ascr. 'Tentoris'; see especially Blackburn 1991. Pedagogical 'motet', perhaps eliciting as a response Gafori's lost Nunc eat et veteres, cited as dedicated to Tinctoris in Gafori's Tractatus practicabilium proportionum, early 1480s: Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS A 69, fols. 2v–3. |
? 1470s (before 1477) | Blackburn 1981: 105–16 (& facs.) |
23. |
Gaude Roma vetus ? vv. (Lost: text given in Johannes Burckard, Liber notarum; see Woodley 1981: 237–8. Text and music composed by Tinctoris in celebration of the enthronement of Rodrigo Borgia as Pope Alexander VI (26 August 1492); originally intended for performance after the Offertory at Mass on the second Sunday in Advent (9 December) 1492, but this performance did not take place.) |
c. 1492 | Text pr. Woodley 1981: 238 |
24. |
Lamentationes Jeremie 4 vv. Printed Petrucci, Lamentationes, i (Venice, 1506), fols. 2v–6 |
? 1490–1500 | Melin 1976: 115–24 |
25. |
O virgo, miserere
mei 3 vv. Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 91 (Mellon Chansonnier), fols. 24v–25 |
Before 1476 | Melin 1976: 125–6; Perkins & Garey 1979: ii. 85 (& facs.) |
26. |
Pater rerum
[? recte Preter rerum] sometimes misread as Ante pater rerum (Lost: cited by Gafori in his Tractatus practicabilium proportionum, early 1480s (Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS A 69, fol. 20v; according to Gafori, dedicated to the King of Hungary, i.e. Matthias Corvinus. [Note that an anonymous 4 vv. motet Incomprehensibilia firme tua/Preter rerum ordinem appears in Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS 755, fols. 101v–104 (cf. 18 above): provisionally attributed to Busnoys in Wegman 1990 and Wegman 1999; unlikely to be by Tinctoris.] |
? Late 1470s |
— |
27. |
Virgo dei throno
digna 3 vv. Berlin, Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, MS 40098 (Glogauer Liederbuch), No. 259; Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS 2573 (Bu), fols. 1v–2; Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS Banco Rari 229, fols. 19v–20; Munich, Universitätsbibliothek, MSS 322–325, No. 7; New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 91 (Mellon Chansonnier), fols. 80v–81; St Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 463 (Tschudi Liederbuch), No. 14 (Superius only); Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS 757, fols. 6v–7; Printed Petrucci, Motetti A (Venice, 1502), fols. 49v–50 |
Before 1476; perhaps composed for betrothal or wedding of Beatrice d'Aragona to Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (1475–6) |
Melin 1976: 126–8; Perkins & Garey 1979: ii. 195 (& facs.) |
28. |
Miscellaneous instructional or exemplary pieces with Latin title or text: | ||
|
(a)
|
Alleluia [i]
2 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 2, Ch. 22, plus Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS A 71, p. 290 ('Si bona'; anon.); Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013, fol. 82v (textless; anon.); Segovia, Catedral, MS without shelfmark, fol. 204 (textless) (Blackburn 1981: 36 and 48) |
1477 or before | Melin 1976: 128–9; Seay 1975: ii. 119–20; O'Donoghue 1972: 119–20 |
|
(b)
|
Alleluia [ii]
2 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 2, Ch. 21, plus Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS A 71, p. 297 ('Deus alleluia'; anon.); Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013, fol. 84 (textless; anon.) (Blackburn 1981: 36 and 49) |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 113–14; O'Donoghue 1972: 125 |
|
(c)
|
Alleluia [iii]
2 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, plus Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS A 71, p. 289 ('michi'; anon.); Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013, fol. 89 (textless; anon.) (Blackburn 1981: 36 and 48) |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 114–15; O'Donoghue 1972: 118 |
|
(d)
|
Alleluia [iv]
2 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 2, Ch. 21, plus Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS A 71, p. 289 ('Do[...]'; anon.); Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013, fol. 88v (textless; anon.) (Blackburn 1981: 36 and 48) |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 116–17; O'Donoghue 1972: 117 |
|
(e)
|
Beatissima Beatrix 3 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 2, Ch. 25, plus Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS A 71, p. 286 (textless; anon.); Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013, fols. 115v–116 (textless, anon.) (Blackburn 1981: 39 and 48) |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 128–30; O'Donoghue 1972: 111–12 |
|
(f)
|
Catherina sponsa
Dei 3 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 2, Ch. 27, plus Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013, fol. 107 (textless, anon.) (Blackburn 1981: 38) |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 135–6 |
|
(g)
|
Deo gratias 5 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 107–10 |
| [Deus alleluia: see (b) Alleluia above] | |||
| [Do[...]: see (d) Alleluia above] | |||
| [Ego volo: see (y) Virginis Marie laudes below] | |||
|
(h)
|
[Fecit potentiam 2 vv.] Segovia, Catedral, MS without shelfmark, fol. 205 No ascription: authorship uncertain though implicit from MS context |
[? 1470s] | Melin 1976: 129 |
|
(i)
|
Kyrie Dic Domine 3 vv. Expositio manus: Possibly composed after main text, and not an intrinsic part of, the treatise; only in Br, fol. 9v |
1470s | Seay 1975: i. 56–7 |
|
(j)
|
Lauda Syon salvatorem [i] 'faubourdon' 3 vv. (2 vv. notated) Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 1, Ch. 5 Text given only in Br, fol. 57v |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 27 |
|
(k)
|
Lauda Syon salvatorem [ii] 2 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 2, Ch. 22 |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 121 |
|
(l)
|
Magne doctor Augustine 3 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 2, Ch. 28 |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 137 |
|
(m)
|
Martine presul inclyte 3 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 2, Ch.26 |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 131 |
| [Mihi: see (c) Alleluia above] | |||
| [Nolo: see (y) Virginis Marie laudes below] | |||
|
(n)
|
O Barbara virgo pulcherrima 2 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 3, Ch. 3 Text of upper voice given in Br, fol. 98 as '[V]ray dieu d'amer, conforte l'amoureux qui nuit et jour': identified as chanson by Pipelare in Cross 1969. |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 148–9 |
|
(o)
|
O Deus princeps celorum 3 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 2, Ch. 34 |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 145; see also Woodley 2006a: 27 |
|
(p)
|
O Georgi regnans
feliciter 3 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 3, Ch. 5 |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 151 |
|
(q)
|
O mater Dei, memento
mei 3 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book, Ch. 2 |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 147 |
|
(r)
|
Omnes sancti gloriosi 3 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 2, Ch. 32 |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 141–2 |
|
(s)
|
O preco 4 vv; 2 partes Inscribed 'Bene correctum est | Tintoris' in Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS A 71, pp. 259–62, but attribution unlikely: see Blackburn 1981, 47 and 52–3. |
O'Donoghue: 91–104; partial in Blackburn 1981: 54 | |
|
(t)
|
O precor 4 vv. Resolution of secunda pars of (s) ('ad longum'): see Blackburn 1981: 48. Unlikely to be by Tinctoris? Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS A 71, pp. 263–4 (anon.) |
O'Donoghue: 105–10 | |
|
(u)
|
Qui regnas in celestibus 3 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 3, Ch. 6 |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 152–3 |
|
(v)
|
Salve martyr virgoque
Barbara 3 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 2, Ch. 23 Second section: 'Sis meritis nobis et precibus propicia' |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 122–4 |
|
(w)
|
Sancte Johannes baptista 3 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 2, Ch. 24, plus Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS A 71, p. 288 (textless; anon.); Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013, fols. 108v–9 (textless; anon.) (Blackburn 1981: 38 and 48) |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 125–7; O'Donoghue 1972: 115–16 |
|
(x)
|
Sanctus 2 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 2, Ch. 22, plus Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS A 71, p. 296 ('Si vis'; anon.); Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013, fols. 83v and 87v (textless; anon.) (Blackburn 1981: 48) |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 117–19; O'Donoghue 1972: 121 |
| [Si bona: see (a) Alleluia above] | |||
| [Si vis: see (x) Sanctus above] | |||
|
(y)
|
Virginis Marie laudes
intonent Christiani 2 vv. Liber de arte contrapuncti, Book 2, Ch. 21, plus Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS A 71, p. 296 ('Nolo'; anon.); Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013, fol. 88 (textless; anon.) (Blackburn 1981: 48. See ibid. for ostensibly separate piece Ego uolo.) |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 110–12; O'Donoghue: 122 |
29. |
Le souvenir 4 vv. (after Discantus of song by Morton) Segovia, Catedral, MS without shelfmark, fols. 116v–117 Incipit only: instrumental? |
unknown | Melin 1976: 135–6 |
30. |
Hélas 3 vv. Berlin, Preussische Staatsbibliothek, MS 40098 (Glogauer Liederbuch), No. 269; Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS Banco Rari 229, fols. 214v–215; Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS Panciatichi 27, fols. 47v–48; Segovia, Catedral, MS without shelfmark, fol. 184 ('Elaes abraham': ascr. Compère); Seville, Biblioteca Columbina, MS 5-I-43, fols. 44v–45 ('Hélas le bon temps que j'avoie'); Printed Petrucci, Odhecaton A (Venice, 1501), fols. 57v–58 Generally incipit only: instrumental? |
? 1470s | Melin 1976, 130–1; Hewitt 1942: 331–2 (from Petrucci); Brown 1983: 460 |
31. |
O invida fortuna 3 vv. (Italian text) Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS Magl. XIX, 176, fols. 86v–87 |
? 1470s–early 1480s | Melin 1976: 133–4 |
32. |
Vostre regart 3 vv. (rondeau) Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale, MS 517, fols. 20v–21; Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS Magl. XIX, 176, fols. 3v–4; Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, f. fr. 15123 (Pixérécourt Chansonnier), fols. 120v–121; Seville, Biblioteca Columbina, MS 5-I-43, fols. 85v–86; Washington, Library of Congress, MS M2.1 L25 Case (Laborde Chansonnier), fols. 79v–80 |
? 1460s-early 1470s | Melin 1976: 131–2 (partial text only; full text in Droz 1927: 46 |
33. |
Comme femme [2 vv.:
'Duo' in margin] (after ? Binchois) Segovia, Catedral, MS without shelfmark, fol. 205v Incomplete superius only Incipit only: instrumental? |
unknown | Melin 1976: 144–6 (tenor editorially added) |
34. |
De tous biens playne 2 vv. (after Hayne van Ghizeghem) Segovia, Catedral, MS without shelfmark, fol. 202 Incipit only: instrumental? |
unknown | Melin 1976: 141–2 |
35. |
D'ung aultre amer 2 vv. (after Ockeghem) Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS A 71, p. 297 (anon.); Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013, fol. 89v (textless; anon.); Segovia, Catedral, MS without shelfmark, fol. 204 ('Ung aultre amer'; 'Johannes Tinctoris') Incipit only: instrumental? (Blackburn 1981: 37 and 49) |
unknown | Melin 1976: 143 |
36. |
Le souvenir 2 vv. (after tenor of song by Morton) Segovia, Catedral, MS without shelfmark, fol. 203v Incipit only: instrumental? |
unknown | Melin 1976: 137–8 |
37. |
Tout a par moy 2 vv. (after ? Frye) Segovia, Catedral, MS without shelfmark, fols. 204v–205 Incipit only: instrumental? |
unknown | Melin 1976: 138–40 |
38. |
Miscellaneous instructional or exemplary pieces with vernacular title or text: | ||
|
(a) |
J'aime qui m'aime 2 vv. (extract?) Liber de arte contrapuncti Text probably rondeau by Charles d'Orléans |
1477 or before | Seay 1975: ii. 146; probable text in Champion 1966: ii. 326 |
|
(b) |
O rosa bella/L'Homme
armé 2 vv. (combinatorial chanson: extract?) Proportionale musices, Book 3, Ch. 4 |
before c. 1475 | Seay 1975: iia. 51; Woodley 1982: i. 291 and ii. 366 |
|
(c) |
Pour vous belle [me
fault morir] 3 vv. (extract?) Proportionale musices, Book 3, Ch. 4 |
before c. 1475 | Seay 1975: iia. 51 [erroneously 'Pour vous la belle']; Woodley 1982: i. 289 and ii. 365 |
Plus numerous other short, untitled instructional pieces and examples throughout the treatises; some also in Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale Augusta, MS 1013 and Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, MS A 71: see especially Seay 1975; Blackburn 1981: esp. 36–9 and 47–9; O'Donoghue 1972; and Woodley 1982.