Source title | Entonase la boz prima en vazio. Primero grado. |
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Title in contents | Cancion Señora si te oluidare en el primero grado Anrriquez. |
Text incipit | Señora si te olvidare |
Category song
Genre Canción
Fantasia type
Mode 1
Voices 4
Length (compases) 96
Tuning D
Courses 6
Final V/0
Highest I/3
Lowest VI/3
Difficulty easy
Tempo not specified
Language ES
Vocal notation texted staff notation
From the page headers in Silva de sirenas, it would appear that this is a song composed by Valderrábano. It is a through-composed song in 4 voices, the soprano notated in mensural notation and the accompanying voices in tablature for a vihuela in D. The piece is in transposed mode 1, and has no specified tempo. The ten-line poem of irregular line length has a 5-line rhyme scheme a b a a b.
Señora, si te olvidare
La mi diestra olvide a mí,
Ni si jamás me alegrare
Sino el tiempo que llorare
Quando esté ausente de tí
Péguense a mis paladares
Mi lengua y pierda su ser
Quando a mí te me olvidares
Que más valen mil pesares,
Por ti que ningún plazer
My lady if I forget you
may my right hand desert me
Nor ever let me feel joy
if I do not lament the time
when I am parted from you
May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth
and be no more of use
if I should forget you
for a thousand sorrows are worth more
for you than any pleasure.