| Source title | Otra Villanesca a quatro de Villalar, señalase la claue de C solfaut en la quarta en segundo traste, y señalase la voz del tiple con vnos puntillos. |
|---|---|
| Title in contents | Esclarecida Juana, a quatro, de Villalar. |
| Text incipit | Esclarecida Juana |
Music
Category intabulation
Genre villanesca
Fantasia type
Mode 2
Voices 4
Length (compases) 51
Vihuela
Tuning C
Courses 6
Final V/2
Highest I/7
Lowest V/0
Difficulty not specified
Tempo not specified
Song Text
Language ES
Vocal notation texted puntillos
Commentary
Intabulation of a four-voice Villanesca found in the Cancionero de Medinaceli and the single tiple part in Galdiano 681 that corresponds to the 2º tiple of Medinaceli. The work is unattributed in Medinaceli, but Trend, in his “Catalogue of the Music in the Biblioteca Medinaceli”, Revue Hispanique 71 (1927), p 525, attributed it to Villalar, probably on the basis of Daza’s intabulation. It was reprinted “a lo divino” as “Esclarecida Madre” by Soto de Langa (1583), and is also included by F. Guerrero in his Canciones y Villanescas Espirituales (1589) converted “a lo divino” to “Esclarecida Madre”. It is therefore most likely to be by Guerrero. For more, see A. Iglesias “El Codice de Santa Maria de Ledesma”, p. 181
On-line edition (ed. Nancho Alvarez): http://www.uma.es/victoria/guerrero/pdf/Guerrero-Esclarecida_Juana.pdf
Another edition by Dom David Pujol, in Música Sacra Española (Montserrat, 1943).
Literature
Song Text
Esclaracida Juana, el que se atreve
a lebantar los ojos y mirarte
es como el que procura
mirar el solo en su altura,
que todos los estremos de velleza
puso en tu rostro la naturaleza,
y estando amor en tus serenos ojos
enriqueze y aumenta sus despojos.
Noble Juana, whosoever dare
raise his eyes to behold you
is the same as he who pretends
to gaze upon the sun at its zenith,
that all the extremes of beauty
were placed on your countenance by Nature
and being there love residing in your serene eyes,
increases and enriches their spoils.
Intabulations
Modern edition(s)
Mitjana, Rafael. “La Musique en Espagne”. Encyclopédie de la Musique et Dictionnàire du Conservatoire. Ed. A Lavignac y L. Laurencie. Paris: Delagrave, 1920-31. Partie I, vol.4, pp.1913-2351.
Querol Gavaldá, Miguel (ed). Cancionero Musical de la Casa de Medinaceli. 2 vols. Monumentos de la Música Española 8 & 9. Barcelona: CSIC, 1949.
Guerrero, Francisco. Esclarecida Juana. Ed. J. Nin-Culmell. The Spanish Choral Tradition 15, edited by J. Nin-Culmell. New York: Broude Brothers, [n.d.]
Printed source(s)
Guerrero, Francisco. Canciones y villanescas espirituales, 3–5vv (Venice, 1589)
Soto de Langa, Francisco. Il secondo libre delle laude sprituali a tre et a quattro voci. Stampata ad instanza delli Reverendi Padri della Congregazione dello Oratorio. Roma: Al. Gardano, 1583.
Manuscripts
[Madrid] Museo Lázaro Galdiano (E:M Galdiano) sign. 681, Ref 15411, tiple only
E-Mb 6829 (861), Cancionero de Medinaceli, [olim: MS 13230]
Mex-Pc 19 Puebla, Catedral, Manuscrito 19.