Enríquez de Valderrábano
Siete diferencias fáciles sobre Guárdame las vacas
Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 96v
va166
| Source title | Aqui se siguen siete diferencias faciles, sobre guardame las vacas, y cada diferencia se conocera a do estouiere esta señal [congruence sign] en el discãte del cõde claros se hallarã redobles, y difere[n]cias de q[ue] se aprouechara el q[ue] touiere mão y abilidad para tañer sobre otras cosas. Primero grado. |
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| Title in contents | Siete diferencias sobre guardame las vacas del primero y segundo grados. |
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Music
Category variations
Genre vacas
Fantasia type
Mode 1
Voices 3
Length (compases) 166
Vihuela
Tuning A
Courses 6
Final V/0
Highest I/10
Lowest VI/0
Difficulty variable
Tempo medium
Song Text
Language
Vocal notation
Commentary
This is a highly individual, sophisticated setting of Guárdame las vacas. I have suggested here that it should be for a vihuela in A in order to give it its original mode. Pujol’s edition transcribes it for a vihuela in E, a fourth lower. This is also a satisfactory solution. The set is very cleverly welded together so that there is musical continuity between one variation and the next. Concerning Guárdame las vacas as a ground, see the commentary for na032
Difficulty :
Variations 1-4: - easy
Variations 5-6: - medium
Variation 7: - difficult
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Recordings
Song Text
see na032