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Miguel de Fuenllana

Paseábase el Rey moro

 

Orphenica Lyra (1554), fol. 163v

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Source title El author sobre el canto llano de este roma[n]ce. f.
Title in contents   Passeauase el Rey moro, de Fuenllana.
Text incipit Paseabase el rey moro


Music

Category cantus firmus

Genre romance

Fantasia type

Mode

Voices 3

Length (compases) 62

Vihuela

Tuning

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

4 ordenes Musica de Fuenllana “sobre el canto llano deste romance”
Text: In Binkley Spanish Romances (with English translation), 108
Recording:Pujol/Cid: (1935) http://www.youtube.com/user/PujolDisciple [accessed 19-02-2008] Pujol plays a guitar in this recording
A manuscript copy of this piece is in E-Mn-MP/2211/1

Song Text

[requires revision with source]
Paseávase el rey moro
Por los campos de granada,
Cartas le fueron venidas
Cómo Alhama era ganada.
¡Ay mi Alhama!
Habéis de saber, amigos,
Una nueva desdicha:
Que cristianos de braveza
Ya nos han ganado Alhama.
¡Ay mi Alhama!

[requires revision]
The morísh king was out walking
in the city of granada
letters delivered to him
Telling how Alhama was taken.
¡Ah, my Alhama!
You must know, friends,
a new sorrow:
that bravehearted Christians
Have taken the Alhama from us.
¡Ah, my Alhama!

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Brown, Howard Mayer. Instrumental Music Printed Before 1600: A Bibliography. Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Press, 1967.

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