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Se pur te guardo [Donato]

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 33

va058

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Source title Entonase la voz/prima en primero traste. Primero grado.
Title in contents   Cancion Se pur te guardo en el primero grado.
Text incipit Se pur te guardo


Music

Category intabulation

Genre villanesca

Fantasia type

Mode 5/6

Voices 4

Length (compases) 81

Vihuela

Tuning E

Courses 6

Final VI/1

Highest I/1

Lowest VI/1

Difficulty easy

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language LA

Vocal notation texted staff notation

Commentary

Intabulation of an Italian Villanesca alla napolitana by Baldissera Donato included in his Il primo libro di canzon villanesche alla napolitana (Venice: Antonio Gardane, [1550], no. 2). The canto part of the model is reprinted in mensural notation with the lower parts reduced to a vihuela accompaniment. Ward was the first to attribute it to Donato without providing source details. Other attributions suggested include Rogier, Willaert and Pathie. The Willaert verdsion needs to be checked to see its connection with the Donato version.

Song Text

Se pur ti guardo
Dolce anima mia
Tu me ne trai
del peto il vivo core caro thesoro
Viso mio bello
Deh non mi dar tanto martello
ch'io son pur tuo servitore
Deh non mi far morir
O dolce anima mia.

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Willaert, Adrian. Opera Omnia. Roma: Hermann Zenck y Halter Gerstemberg. American Institute of Musicology, 1950. (ed.).

Printed source(s)

Donato, Baldissera. Il primo libro di canzon villanesche alla napolitana a quatro voci nouamente ristampate. Aggiontoui anchora alcune villote di Perissone a quatro con la canzon della gallina. Venice: Antonio Gardane, 1552.

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