| Source title | Cancion a quatro, señalase la claue de C solfaut en la quatra en tercero traste, y señalase la voz del tiple con vnos puntillos. |
|---|---|
| Title in contents | Quan bienaventurado, a quatro. |
| Text incipit | Quan bienaventurado |
Music
Category intabulation
Genre villanesca
Fantasia type
Mode 1 or 2
Voices 4
Length (compases) 97
Vihuela
Tuning B
Courses 6
Final IV/0
Highest I/8
Lowest VI/1
Difficulty not specified
Tempo not specified
Song Text
Language ES
Vocal notation texted puntillos
Commentary
An intabulation of a setting by Rodrigo de Ceballos of a text by Garcilaso (”Ecloga” 2, verses 38 ff). Daza was evidently unaware of the identity of the composer. The attribution to Ceballos comes from the copy in the Cancionero de Medinaceli where it is attributed to “Cevallos.” Another incomplete copy (tenor only) is in Valladolid Catedral MS 17, fols 5v-6r, also attributed to “Cevallos.”
Daza describes the work as a “Canción”. The canción (Italian Canzone) is a form introduced into Spanish poetry by Garcilaso and Boscán. It is built from stanzas with a combination of hendecasyllables and heptasyllables. The arrangement and length of the first stanza are those followed by subsequent stanzas, although the last is usually about half the length. The stanza length normally ranges between 10 and 20 lines. The setting here is of the first stanza of Daza’s eclogue.
Literature
Song Text
¡Quán bienaventurado
aquel puede llamarse,
que con la dulçe soledad
se abraça y bibe descuydado
y lexos de enpacharse
en lo que al alma ynpide y enbaraça.
No vee la llena plaça
ni la soberbia puerta
de los grandes señores,
ni los aduladores;
a quien la hanbre del fabor despierta,
no le será forçoso
rogar, fingir, temer,
y estar quexoso.
How happy
he can call himself
who embraces sweet solitude
and lives carefree
and far from embroilment
in what trammels and hinders the soul.
He sees not there the teeming market place
nor the proud portals
of the great lords,
nor the flatterers
in whom the hunger of favour has awakened.
To him it will not be necessary
to beg, pretend, fear
or be plaintive.
Intabulations
Modern edition(s)
Trend, J. B. [=John Brande]. The Music of Spanish History to 1600. Hispanic Notes and Monographs X, 1926. Rpt New York: Kraus Reprints, 1965.
Querol Gavaldá, Miguel (ed). Cancionero Musical de la Casa de Medinaceli. 2 vols. Monumentos de la Música Española 8 & 9. Barcelona: CSIC, 1949.
Printed source(s)
Manuscripts
[Madrid] Museo Lázaro Galdiano (E:M Galdiano) sign. 681, Ref 15411, tiple only
E-Mb 6829 (861), Cancionero de Medinaceli, [olim: MS 13230]
[Valladolid] Valladolid, Catedral, Archivo de Música, MS 17