ABSTRACT
Tomás Luis de Victoria is widely recognized by scholars and performers alike as one of the major figures in the history of Renaissance music. His motets, such as Ο magnum mysterium and Ο vos omnes, as well as many of his other works, are held in high regard and frequently performed. His eminence among his peers has engendered numerous and thoughtful studies of his musical style by modern historians. 158 However, the importance of the fabordón and/or the falsobordone, a genre/style that occupied many of his countrymen, such as Ceballos and Guerrero, and many of his Italian contemporaries, such as Asola, Isnardi, and Ruffo, and remains a largely unexplored feature of Victoria's musical language. 159
