Jacob Obrecht: Missa Scaramella (Reconstruction) Printed of Digital

Jacob Obrecht’s Missa Scaramella (ca. 1458–1505) may be considered a lost masterpiece by one of the greatest of the astonishing generation of composers active ca. 1500.  It is transmitted uniquely in a set of four partbooks now housed in Kraków’s Biblioteka Jagiellonska (formerly in Berlin, Former Preußische Staatsbibliothek, Ms. Mus. 40634), of which two, containing the discantus and tenor, are now lost.

Against the material contained in the surviving altus and tenor partbooks, composer and musicologist Fabrice Fitch had reconstructed the work in its entirety.

78 pages.

A digital version of this publication is also available with an extra (free) score for performers. In addition, four images from the publication are available in high resolution. They can be found here.