| Source title | Strambote a quatro. F. |
|---|---|
| Title in contents | Tan que viurey |
| Text incipit | Tant que viuray |
Music
Category intabulation
Genre chanson
Fantasia type
Mode 5
Voices 4
Length (compases) 45
Vihuela
Tuning G
Courses 6
Final IV/0
Highest I/5
Lowest VI/3
Difficulty easy
Tempo not specified
Song Text
Language FR
Vocal notation texted cifras rojas
Commentary
Intabulation of a four-voice chanson by Claudin de Sermisy, one of the best known pieces of the age. Literal intabulation of the vocal model, but with some notable differences in a couple of phrases. It is difficult to establish whether these are variants from a slightly different original source, or if they are errors in the process of making the intabulation, perhaps on account of Fuenllana’s blindness. Perhaps he wrote the tablature version from a memorised version that had become corrupted through the process of oral transmission. The differences are discussed in Griffiths, Tañer vihuela según Juan Bermudo (griffiths2003-4) Text by Clement Marot.
Editions
Literature
Recordings
Song Text
Intabulations
Modern edition(s)
Sermisy, Claudin de. Opera Omnia. Ed. Gaston Allaire and Isabel Cazeaux. Corpus Mensurabilis Música 52. N.p.: American Institute of Musicology, 1974.
Attaingnant, Pierre. Transcriptions of Chansons for Keyboard. Ed. Albert Seay, 1961.
Thibauld, Genevieve (comp.). Chansons au Luth et aire de cour français du XVIe. siècle. Paris: Société Française de Musicologie, 1976.
Printed source(s)
Attaingnant, Pierre. Chansons musicales a quatre parties… Paris: Attaingnant, 1535.
Attaingnant, Pierre. Chansons nouvelles en musique à quatre parties... Paris: P. Attaingnant, 1528.
Attaignant, Pierre. Tres breve et famíliere introduction pour entendre & apprendre par soy mesmes a jouer toutes chansons reduictes en la tabulature du Lutz. Paris: Attaingnant, 1529.