Source title | Baxa de contrapunto el ca[n]to llano llaua el tiple es otauo tono.En la quarta en vazio esta la claue defefaut. En la tercera en tercer traste esta la claue de cesolfaut. |
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Title in contents | Una baxa de contrapunto |
Text incipit |
Category dance
Genre other
Fantasia type
Mode 8
Voices 4
Length (compases) 117
Tuning G
Courses 6
Final V/4
Highest I/5
Lowest VI/0
Difficulty not specified
Tempo fast
Language
Vocal notation
One of the few surviving Spanish examples of a basse dance. Narváez gives no indication of the identity of the tenor melody, presumably pre-existing. Ward confirms that it is not related to “La Spagna” but that it is closely related to the tenor used by Valderrábano in his “Baxa” for two vihuelas. The melody below is reconstructed by Ward from these two versions (ward1953, 146). The notes in brackets are not in the Narváez version.
The Pedrell edition in CMPE III is quite similar to the style of Morphy’s transcriptions.
Narváez’s setting was copied under the title “the base of spayne” in the English manuscript now known as the Braye Lute Book (olim Osborne Lute MS). (Yale Univ., Beinecke Lib., Music Ms. 13), fol. 10, (nº 15). Facsimile available on line from Yale University — https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3435118 (accessed 19/02/2020)
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