| Source title | Este villancico que se sigue de la manera que aqui esta sonado: el cantor puede hazer garganta y la vihuela ha de yr muy a espacio. |
|---|---|
| Title in contents | |
| Text incipit | Aquel cauallero madre |
Music
Category song
Genre Villancico
Fantasia type
Mode 1
Voices 4
Length (compases) 36
Vihuela
Tuning A
Courses 6
Final IV/0
Highest I/7
Lowest VI/1
Difficulty not specified
Tempo slow
Song Text
Language ES
Vocal notation texted cifras rojas
Commentary
Rubric: “this villancico that follows is the style that is here sounding: the singer can ornament and the vihuela has to go very slowly.”
This is another plain chordal setting, homophonic, allowing for performance flexibility.
In his Cancionero, Pedrell claims this song to be “Muy popular y muy imitada por poetas y músicos” [very popular and imitated by poets and musicians] and lists two other versions by Cristóbal de Castillejo and Alonso de Alcaudete, “algo picante” [somewhat saucy] (pedrell1918, III, 30). He transcribes (pedrell1918, III, 96) another anonymous setting in three voices from the CMP (Barbieri, 209).
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Song Text
Aquel caballero, madre,
que de mí se enamaró
pena él y muero yo.
Madre, aquel caballero
que va herido de amores,
también siento sus dolores
porque dellas mismas muero;
su amor tan verdadero
merece que diga yo:
pena él y muero yo.