The first of three biblical romances by Mudarra. The music is by Mudarra, perhaps with some borrowing from popular tradition, on a text that Pujol shows to be based on Matthew 8: 23-27 ((pujol1949, 75-76). ). Pujol also point out that it is the only one of Mudarra’s romances to be in two parts, in the style of three of those of Luis Milán. The opening of the music uses the chordal scheme of the pavana-folia, as in mu054. The vocal part is written in mensural notation on a separate staff, with a three-part accompaniment.

The text of this romance is also found in a pliego suelto (broadsheet) entitled Siguen se quatro obras compuestas por Nofre Almodeuar...[y] Otro romance de otro autor (Cuenca; [Juan de Cánova], [1557-1558?] where on fol. 4v it is attributed to “el Comendador Auila” (Infantes 2013, 36) don Luis de Zvila y Zúñiga, a member of the court of Carlos V, and a close friend of the emperor (Mele 1922). It is also in the Cancionero general (2nd edition, 1527) as the “Romance de otro cavallero”.