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Alonso Mudarra

Isabel, perdiste la tu faja

 

Tres libros de música en cifra (1546), fol. III/53

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Source title Villa[n]cico. Entonase la boz en la tercera al p[ri]mer traste, y puedese tambien cantar octaua arriba, e[n]tona[n]dose e[n] la prima al tercero traste
Title in contents   Ysabel perdiste la tu faxa.
Text incipit Isabel


Music

Category song

Genre Villancico

Fantasia type

Mode 1

Voices 4

Length (compases) 69

Vihuela

Tuning G

Courses 6

Final VI/0

Highest I/7

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty not specified

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language ES

Vocal notation texted staff notation

Commentary

Villancico setting of an otherwise unknown text. It has a very distinctive melody and shows Mudarra at his best as a song writer. It is marked by a long instrumental imitative introduction using the opening theme of the song. It is set in classic villancico style: estribillo (1-51), copla (52-69), and although not indicated in any way, the estribillo should be repeated.
Pujol’s commentary sums up the character of the song admirably: “Anonymous, picaresque, with an intense popular flavour. The sash of Isabel, a girl of ostentatious beauty and gallant haughtiness, floats on the water, the supposed defeat of her contemptuous arrogance for the sake of love. The musical commentary, agile in rhythm and graceful in line, underlines the text with felicitous rapport. A long instrumental period of eighteen bars precedes the song, of inspired freshness, whose declamation gives rise to unexpected breaks in the rhythm and subtle dissonances in the clash of some voices that increase the appeal of its character, similar to that of certain popular Castilian and Asturian songs that are still sung today.” (Pujol1949, 86)

Literature
Recordings

rogers-maz01 ¡Baylado!. Music of Renaissance Spain The Terra Nova Consort ensemble Milán Mudarra

fentross01 Ay Luna. Música española del Siglo de Oro Guillemette Laurens, Mike Fentross (vihuela) vihuela song Mudarra Valderrábano Narváez Milán

heringman05 Alonso Mudarra: Songs and solos for vihuela & guitar Catherine King, Jacob Heringman Mudarra

Gentil mia Donna. Petrarca e la musica. Laurens, Fuoco e Cenere Jay Bernfeld Mudarra

spring01 Senhora del Mundo: Spanish & Portugues vihuela songs Matthew Spring, Sarah Stowe solo vihuela song Narváez, Milán, Daza, Mudarra, Pisador, Bermudo

smith05 Alonso Mudarra – Libro tercero de música en cifras y canto 1546 Montserrat Figueras & Hopkinson Smith vihuela song Mudarra

wallace01 Star shining on the Mountain: Music of Medieval and Renaissance Spain LiveOak (Frank Wallace) ensemble Pisador, Mudarra

zayas01 Vihuelistas españoles del siglo XVI (IV) Rodrigo de Zayas & Anne Perret solo vihuela song Milán Narváez Mudarra Valderrábano Pisador Fuenllana Daza

fresno04 Alonso Mudarra: Tres libros de música en cifras para vihuela y para canto y vihuela Jorge Fresno and Rosemarie Meister solo vihuela song Mudarra

cubedo01 Songs of the Spanish Renaissance, Vol. 1 Montserrat Caballé and Manuel Cubedo (Vihuela) vihuela song Fuenllana Milán Mudarra Narvaez Pisador Valderrábano

moreno04 Claros y frescos ríos Nuria Rial, José Miguel Moreno solo vihuela song Daza Vásquez Flecha Morales Mudarra Pisador Fuenllana Valderrábano

moreno06 The Spanish Album Nuria Rial, José Miguel Moreno vihuela song solo Mudarra Pisador Fuenllana Daza Valderrábano Narváez Milán Flecha Morales Vásquez Ortiz Arañés

hervas01 Por los campos de los moros Sergio Merino (tenor) and Francisco Hervás (vihuela) solo vihuela song ensemble Vásquez Narváez Fuenllana Mudarra Francisco de la Torre Enrique

pitzl01 Alonso Mudarra, Tres Libros de Musica, Sevilla 1546 Raquel Andueza & Private Musicke dir. Pierre Pitzl vihuela song Mudarra Milán Narváez Daza

tarrago01 Música del renacimiento español (Guitar Music and Songs of the Spanish Renaissance) Renata Tarragó and Rosa Barbany vihuela song Milán Fuenllana Narváez Mudarra Valderrábano

moreno08 Al alva venid. Música profana de los siglos XV y XVI Ensemble La Romanesca. José Miguel Moreno Narváez, Mudarra, Pisador

eguez01 Ay fortuna cruel, l’âge d’or de la musique espagnol Bárbara Kusa & Eduardo Egüez Daza Milán Mudarra Narváez

heringman04 A Royal Songbook. Spanish Music from the time of Columbus Musica Antiqua of London, Jacob Heringman Mudarra

rivera05 Lágrimas corriendo. Canciones de Alonso Mudarra y Miguel de Fuenllana Carlos Mena, Juan Carlos Rivera Fuenllana Mudarra

fresno06 Música española del siglo XVI [guitar] Jorge Fresno & Sofía Noël solo vihuela song Milán Mudarra Fuenllana Narváez Pisador Valderrábano

gassmann01 La Vihuela: Das orphische Instrument Spaniens Joachim Gassmann solo vihuela song Milán Narváez Mudarra Fuenllana Pisador Encina Morales Ortiz

Song Text

Ysabel, Ysabel
perdiste la tu faxa:
¡éla por do va
nadando por el agua!
Ysabel, la tan garrida

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