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Luis de Narváez

Canción del primer tono [Si par soufrir, de Jean Courtois]

 

Los seis libros del Delphin (1538), fol. 43v

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Source title Cancion del primer tono. En la quarta en vazio esta la claue de fefaut. En la tercera en tercero traste esta la claue de cesolfaut
Title in contents   Nicolas Gombert. Otra cancion del primer tono.
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Music

Category intabulation

Genre chanson

Fantasia type

Mode 1

Voices 4

Length (compases) 64

Vihuela

Tuning G

Courses 6

Final V/2

Highest I/7

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty not specified

Tempo fast

Song Text

Language

Vocal notation

Commentary

One of thw works in Libro 3. The identification of “Si par soufrir” by Jean Courtois was made by Bart Roose, “Luys de Narváez. Otra canción del primer tono” (roose2000]. Bevilacqua 2004 thesis (bevilacqua2004, 101-104) erroneously identifies it with Gombert’s chanson Tu pers son temp and claims that after some initial resemblance, it becomes an increasingly free paraphrase.

Comparison of the Narváez version with both the 1534 and 1544 prints (which are all but identical) suggests that Narváez may have used a different model to the printed versions, from a yet unknown source. The Narváez version omits 8 beats of the printed version (bars 21.3-4, 22, 23.1-2) following bar 43 in the tablature, and adds a brief coda with no repeat of the final bars. Roose give much more detail about other differences between the tablature version and the Attaingnant print.

Other lute intabulations of the chanson are in D-B Musi. ms. 40632 adn Heckel 1562.

Youtube recording of the Hilliard Ensemble performing the vocal model: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcRq7r-8Jrc

Song Text

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Forney, Kristine K. ed. Chansons published by Tielman Susato. Sixteenth-century Chanson, vol. 29-30. New York: Garland, 1994.

Printed source(s)

Attaingnant, Pierre (ed). Trente et une chansons musicales a quatre parties imprimees par Pierre Attaingnant imprimeur de musique. Paris: P. Attaingnant, 1534.

Susato, Tilman. Le quatriesme livre des Chansons a Quatre Parties au quel sont contenues trente et quatre chansons nouvelles Convenables Tant a la Voix comme aux Instrumentz. Antwerp: Susato, 1544.

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