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Guárdame las vacas, diferencias

 

Simancas, Casa y Sitios Reales, leg. 394, fol. 130-130v

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Music

Category variations

Genre vacas

Fantasia type

Mode 1

Voices 3

Length (compases) 46

Vihuela

Tuning A

Courses 6

Final V/0

Highest I/3

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty not specified

Tempo not specified

Song Text

Language

Vocal notation

Commentary

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

Song Text

see na032

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