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Miguel de Fuenllana

Cobarde caballero [Vásquez]

 

Orphenica Lyra (1554), fol. 162v

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Source title Villa[n]cico d[e]Jua[n] vazque[e]z
Title in contents   Cuarde cauallero de Jua[n] vasqu[e]z.
Text incipit Couarde cavallero


Music

Category intabulation

Genre villancico

Fantasia type

Mode 1

Voices 3

Length (compases) 112

Vihuela

Tuning [E]

Courses 4

Final IV/0

Highest I/6

Lowest IV/0

Difficulty not specified

Tempo not specified

Song Text

Language ES

Vocal notation texted cifras rojas

Commentary

Intabulation of a villancico in 3 voices by Juan Vásquez from his 1551 anthology, for four-course guitar. The tuning is A-d-f#-b, as if the inner four courses of a vihuela in E. In Vásquez’s later Recopilación (vasquez1560, rpt vasquez1946, 41, 184) there is a version with different melody and same text.
A manuscript copy of this piece is in E-Mn-MP/2211/1

Literature
Song Text

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Vásquez Juan. Villancicos i Canciones. Recent researches in the music of the renaissance 104. Edited by Eleanor Russell. Madison: A-R Editions, 1995.

Printed source(s)

Vásquez, Juan. Villancicos i canciones de Juan Vásquez a tres y a cuatro. Osuna: Juan de León, 1551.

Manuscripts