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Enríquez de Valderrábano

Contrapunto sobre el tenor de la baja

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 58v

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Source title [vihuela 1]: Vihuela mayor. Esta musica es vn co[n]tra pu[n]to sobre el tenor dela baxa/ el te[m]ple es como la obra pasada/ en q[ui]nta. Segundo grado. / [vihuela 2] Anrriquez. Esta vihuela menor esntra con el canto llano de la baxa. Primero grado.
Title in contents   Sobre el tenor de la baxa en quinta a quatro Anrriquez.
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Music

Category dance

Genre other

Fantasia type

Mode

Voices

Length (compases) 152

Vihuela

Tuning

Courses 6

Final VI/2

Highest I/7

Lowest VI/2

Difficulty easy + med.

Tempo fast

Song Text

Language

Vocal notation

Commentary

Rubric: [vihuela 1] “Vihuela mayor. This music is a counterpoint on the tenor of the “baja”; the tuning is as for the previous piece / at the fifth. Second level [of difficulty]” [vihuela 2]: Anrriquez. This small vihuela comes in together with the melody [canto llano] of the of the basse danse. First level.

Setting for 2 vihuelas at the fifth of a basse dance in which once of the instruments places an improvistory style parts above a predetermined tenor.
Reprinted in Phalèse, Hortus Musarum [1552/11], Nº 105