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Category variations
Genre vacas
Fantasia type
Mode 1
Voices 3
Length (compases) 46
Tuning A
Courses 6
Final V/0
Highest I/3
Lowest VI/0
Difficulty not specified
Tempo not specified
Language
Vocal notation
Untitled in the manuscript, this is a pair of variations on the melodic-harmonic formula known by association with a popular refrain “Guárdame las vacas.” The formula is closely related to the Italian Romanesca, some argue identical. It is a question of minor metrical differences.
The central pattern Guárdame las vacas is the conjunction of melody and harmony, together, combined and inseparable:
melody mi re do si :| la
chords III VII i V :| i
see commentary for na032
see na032