Infunde amorem cordibus : an early 16th-century polyphonic hymn cycle from Seville

The article studies the characteristics of the polyphonic hymn cycle contained in Tarazona Cathedral, Ms. 2-3 within the context of the transitional period in the liturgy of the Iberian Peninsula in the 15th and 16th centuries. New information on the biographical profile of the composers of these hymns, as well as the analysis of breviaries and other chant sources, some of them previously unknown, from the places with which the Tarazona anthology has been associated, establishes a Sevillian origin for the cycle and by extension for the rest of the repertory in the manuscript. The conclusions reached in the article permit the identification of the chant melodies, from a Sevillian hymnary, that would be most appropriate for alternatim performance of the polyphony in this most important source from the time of the Catholic Monarchs.