Source title | Romanesca: o guardame las vacas. Proporción tres semibreues al conpas. |
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Title in contents | Romanesca o guardame las vacas de cinco maneras. |
Text incipit |
Category variations
Genre vacas
Fantasia type
Mode 1
Voices 4
Length (compases) 52
Tuning E
Courses 6
Final IV/3
Highest I/10
Lowest VI/0
Difficulty not specified
Tempo slow
Language
Vocal notation
A set of 5 variations on the III-VII-i-V harmonic scheme of Guárdame las vacas. Each variation starts with this pattern, but the cadences and links are not always regualr, and the piece is unusual in the way the variations are linked into a more continuous musical fabric. This is not so common in 16th-century variations.
Pujol speculates about the name Romanesca, but it is clear that it is the name used in Italy for the same melodic-harmonic scheme that was known in Spain by the opening line of the romance wtith which it was commonly associated.
Other settings are found in the vihuela books of Narváez, Valderrábano and the Ramillete de flores manuscript as well as in numerour keyboard souces. All the known Spanish instrumental versions are available online in transcription by John Griffiths at www.Contrapunto.uva.es. All thirteen seetings be seen in one table together at http://contrapunto.uva.es/sites/default/files/x-vacas_comparativas.pdf
See commentary for na032
eisenhardt03 La Guitarre Royalle Lex Eisenhardt Milán Narváez Fuenllana Mudarra
smith06 Alonso Mudarra - Tres libros de musica en cifras para vihuela Hopkinson Smith solo Mudarra
ragossnig01 Tanzmusik der Renaissance Konrad Ragossnig ensemble solo Milán Mudarra
mito01 Music for vihuela 2: O gloriosa domina Shigeo Mito solo Milán Mudarra Narváez
Sephardic Journey. Spain and the Spanish Jews La Rondinella, Mudarra Milán
cherevko01 Silva de Vihuelas Dimitry Cherevko Milán Narváez Mudarra Valderrábano
see na032