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Enríquez de Valderrábano

Soneto 08

 

Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 91 (1)

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Source title Primero grado.
Title in contents   Soneto en el primero grado.
Text incipit


Music

Category unclassified

Genre soneto

Fantasia type

Mode 1

Voices 4

Length (compases) 61

Vihuela

Tuning A

Courses 6

Final V/0

Highest I/5

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty easy

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language

Vocal notation

Commentary

This “soneto” appears to be either a piece of lute music, perhaps a fantasia opening, or the opening section of piece of vocal poyphony, especially given its opening, seemingly derived from paired imitation. Pujol comments on its lyrical beauty and considered it one of the most beautiful pieces in Silva de sirenas. Pujol’s edition heads it as Soneto XIII (pujol1965). The piece was reprinted in Phalèse, Hortus Musarum (1552/11, nº 18). On the basis of its style, it might conceivably be a piece by Valderrábano himself, perhaps material for a fantasía. The style of weveral passages is reminiscent of Valderrábano’s own works. Its ending recalls the end of Fantasía 3, for example.