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Enríquez de Valderrábano

Señora, si te olvidaré

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 44

va071

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Source title Entonase la boz prima en vazio. Primero grado.
Title in contents   Cancion Señora si te oluidare en el primero grado Anrriquez.
Text incipit Señora si te olvidare


Music

Category song

Genre Canción

Fantasia type

Mode 1

Voices 4

Length (compases) 96

Vihuela

Tuning D

Courses 6

Final V/0

Highest I/3

Lowest VI/3

Difficulty easy

Tempo not specified

Song Text

Language ES

Vocal notation texted staff notation

Commentary

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.

Literature
Song Text

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.

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