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superius Mus.|s(j)uːˈpiərɪəs|
[a. L. superius, neut. (used as n.) of superior superior a.]
(See quots. 1801, 1876.) Also transf., a person who sings this part.
[1519O. Petrucci Motetti de la Corona (heading) Libro secundo. (Superius.)] 1776J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Sci. & Pract. Music II. i. vii. 86 Quinible..may rather mean a high part.., which in general lies above the tenor..and at others between the contretenor and the superius or treble. 1801T. Busby Dict. Mus., Superius,..the name by which the contrapuntists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries distinguished the upper part of any composition. 1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms 412/1 Superius,..a name given to the upper part in a composition by the writers of the sixteenth century. 1907Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 2) III. 631/1 ‘Le Parangon des Chansons’, printed by ‘Jaques Moderne’..in nine volumes..and..so arranged that the Superius and Tenor sit facing each other, on opposite sides of the table—the Superius reading from the lower half of the left-hand page, and the Tenor from the upper half. 1954G. Reese Music in Renaissance i. 16 The texture in which a vocal top line (or, as this part is interchangeably called, treble, superius, cantus, or discantus) is supported by a subordinate, instrumental tenor and contratenor was much in vogue. 1970Proc. R. Mus. Assoc. 1969–70 95 The fourth and final line of the text..telescopes the beginning and end of Sandrin's superius. 1977Early Music Apr. 243/3 Surely..the superius should cadence on C with the other voices. Ibid. July 419/2 The superius of his motet Sufficiebat..is closely related to the tenor of Hayne's chanson Mon souvenir. |