Ernesto HARTMANN

The Ave Maria for four voice mixed choir attributed to Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611): a hermeneutic analysis of the text/compositional procedures relations

A Ave Maria para coro misto a quatro vozes atribuída a Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611): uma análise hermenêutica das relações entre texto e processos composicionais

Published in La Imagen del Poder. Epifanías de la Potestas

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This research examines the work Ave Maria for mixed choir attributed to Iberian composer Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611). Seeking for new analytical perspectives I apply the notion of hermeneutical windows, by Lawrence Kramer, in order to elucidate the relations of the text and compositional procedures in the work. To do so, I first present a brief historical perspective of musical representation of text, I analyze the work outlining its texture, church mode and metric choices and discuss the results in order to open the hermeneutical windows and reach the possible meaning beyond the text.