Hassler Missa super Dixit Maria: misprint in more than one edition?

Chris Garton-Zavesky

I'm attaching the Credo from Missa Super Dixit Maria.

The top two parts, in measure 5, seem to be misprints. The C in the top part, surely, should be an A, and the alto 8th-note run should begin with F-E, not D-C.

Please look at the score and post thoughtful opinion. (Rants, here as elsewhere, are unwelcome).

FSSPmusic

First printing, p. 5:
https://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/publication/86553/edition/78512/content?ref=L3B1YmxpY2F0aW9uLzIzNDcvZWRpdGlvbi8xMTE2Ng

Proske's edition:
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11139588?page=272,273

There are a number of errors in the edition you attached, but I don't think this particular passage is one of them. Did you find an edition with the other reading?

Chris Garton-Zavesky

FSSPmusic,

I didn't find another edition with the reading I've proposed, but the voice-leading is (so far as I know, which isn't exhaustive) not typical of Hassler.

tomjaw

We sing the credo and use Brian Marble's edition on CPDL. I don't remember any comments about misprints, will ask the choir.

rich_enough

Chris,

Renowned conductor Philippe Herreweghe adopts your reading in this recording. One other commercial recording I found on YouTube sings it as printed.

I agree the reading in the sources is awkward and probably a misprint.

Chris Garton-Zavesky

Leaps into dissonances and the alto repetition are not unfamiliar to Tallis or Lassus. They strike me as unfamiliar territory for Hassler, and I'm inclined to think the fact that this situation is so isolated (from the rest of the Missa Super Dixit Maria) argues in favor of consistency and a misprint.

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