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Enríquez de Valderrábano

Jamás cosa que quisiese

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 44v

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Source title Entonase la boz prima en tercero traste. Primero grado
Title in contents   Cancion Iamas cosa que quisiesse en el primero grado Anrriquez.
Text incipit Jamas cosa


Music

Category song

Genre Canción

Fantasia type

Mode 2

Voices 4

Length (compases) 32

Vihuela

Tuning D

Courses 6

Final V/0

Highest I/3

Lowest V/0

Difficulty easy

Tempo not specified

Song Text

Language ES

Vocal notation texted

Commentary

A short song by Valderrábano placed as the last item in his libro tercero, and presumably of his own composition. It is in four-voices with the soprano in mensural notation. The accompaniment is largely hompophonic other than some final flourishes to match the vocal part at the end. It is set for a vihiela in D, and appears to be in mode 2, transposed to G. The text is simply a poetic quatrain which, as Pujol points out, is the base reuisite for a madrigal, although Valderrábano’s pager header and contents title lists it as a song.

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Jamás cosa que quisiesse
Nunca la vi ni hallé,
Y la que no deseé,
Que luego no se cumpliesse.

Never has anything I may have wanted
Never did I see it or find it
Nor was there anything not desired by me
which later did not come to pass.

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