Abstract
Pierre de la Rue’s Missa L’homme armé survives in four sources: BrusBR 9126, VienNB 1783, Petrucci 1503, and JenaU 22. The movement consists of three sections: a section in O; a 4-ex-1 mensuration canon; and a section in sesquialtera. The Brussels and Vienna sources, choirbooks prepared by the early sixteenth-century copyist known as ‘Scribe B’, place the canon second, and the sesquialtera section last. Petrucci reverses the canon and sesquialtera sections, while Jena omits the canon entirely. Stemmatic and notational considerations suggest that Petrucci preserves La Rue’s original conception. This is surprising considering Scribe B’s presumed proximity to the composer, on the one hand, and Petrucci’s presumed distance, on the other.
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