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Enríquez de Valderrábano

Petite camusette [Willaert]

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 47v

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Source title [Vihuela 1] Adriano. Esta es una ca[n]cio[n]/ y ta[m]bien es el te[m]ple en vnisonus.Segu[n]do grado. [Vihuela 2] Petite camusete.
Title in contents   Petite camusete en unisonus a seys Adriano.
Text incipit Petite camusete


Music

Category intabulation

Genre chanson

Fantasia type

Mode 1

Voices 6

Length (compases) 107

Vihuela

Tuning F# & F#

Courses 6

Final IV/5

Highest I/6

Lowest VI/1

Difficulty medium

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language

Vocal notation

Commentary

Intabulation for two vihuelas in unison of the chanson by Willaert, Petite camusette. The arrangement sets the parts for vihuelas in F# in order that the parts sit well under the hand. This is supposedly one of Willaeert’ early works, first published in 1520.

Song Text

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Willaert, Adrian. The complete five and six-voice chansons. Edited Jane A Bernstein. Sixteenth-century chanson 23 (Chansons from the atelier of Le Roy and Ballard). New York: Garland, 1992.

Printed source(s)

Salblinger, Siegmund. Selectissimae necnon familiarissimae cantiones, ultra centum vario idiomate vocum. Augsburg: M. Kriesstein, 1540.

[Antico] Motteti novi e chanzoni franciose a quatro sopra doi. Venice: Andrea Antico, 1520.

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