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Spain Discovers the Mass

“…La Rue's Missa Nunca fue was printed by Petrucci as early as 1503, and it was probably written in the early years of Juana and Philip's marriage, well before the first trip to Spain. 98 It is a complex and subtle piece combining cantus firmus, paraphrase and parody techniques into something quite dazzling and allusive. Peñalosa's is a fine composition on its own terms, but subtle and allusive (as we have seen) it is not, or at least not at the critical competitive moment, the very beginning.…”