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Guárdame las vacas, diferencias

 

Simancas, Casa y Sitios Reales, leg. 394, fol. 130-130v

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Music

Category variations

Genre vacas

Fantasia type

Mode

Voices

Length (compases)

Vihuela

Tuning

Courses 6

Final

Highest

Lowest

Difficulty

Tempo

Song Text

Language

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Commentary

Variations on the melodic-harmonic formula known by association with a popular refrain “Guárdame las vacas.” The formula is closely related to the Italian Romanesca, some argue identical. It is a question of minor metrical differences.
The central pattern Guárdame las vacas is the conjunction of melody and harmony, together, combined and inseparable:

melody mi re do si :| la
chords III VII i V :| i

see commentary for na032