Source title | Entonase la boz prima en tercero traste. Primero grado |
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Title in contents | Cancion Iamas cosa que quisiesse en el primero grado Anrriquez. |
Text incipit | Jamas cosa |
Category song
Genre Canción
Fantasia type
Mode 2
Voices 4
Length (compases) 32
Tuning D
Courses 6
Final V/0
Highest I/3
Lowest V/0
Difficulty easy
Tempo not specified
Language ES
Vocal notation texted
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.
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.