Andreas de Silua
Missa Tu es pastor
VatS 55, ff. 17v-40r
7 voices: discantus [I], discantus [II], altus, tenor [I], tenor [II], bassus [I], bassus [II]
The 7-voice Missa Tu es pastor ouium is one of six of de Silva’s known masses. It is also preserved in Verona, Biblioteca dell’Accademia Filarmonica di Verona, Ms. 218 ff. 3-6. This collection of partbooks was copied in the early years of Pope Clemens VII (1523-1534). For further information see: Winfried Kirsch (ed.), Andreas de Silva, Opera Omnia, Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae, vol. 49, III, American Institute of Musicology, 2012.