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Miguel de Fuenllana

Ojos claros, serenos [Guerrero]

 

Orphenica Lyra (1554), fol. 143

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Source title Villancico a quatro de Guerrero.
Title in contents   Ojos claros:Guerrero
Text incipit Ojos claros serenos


Music

Category intabulation

Genre villancico

Fantasia type

Mode

Voices 4

Length (compases) 95

Vihuela

Tuning

Courses 6

Final V/0

Highest I/5

Lowest V/0

Difficulty not specified

Tempo not specified

Song Text

Language ES

Vocal notation texted cifras rojas

Commentary

Text by Gutierre de Cetina. See McGrady 1997.

One of the first modern performances of this piece is possibly in the “concierto histórico” by P. Luis Villalba given in El Escorial in 1910 and reported in ABC on 16 August 1910, p. 10, that included “tres cantgas de Alfonso el Sabio, un villancico de Juan del Encina, un romance morisco del siglo XV, las coplas de Manrique, con música de Mudarra; un madrigal de Gutiérrez de Cetina, unas folias de autor anónimo, un minué de José Nebra y un rondó del quinteto número de Antonio Soler.” An earlier performance with other works took place at the Ateneo de Madrid on 16 March 1887 (See Rey, Morphy, part 2.)

Editions
Recordings
Song Text

Intabulations
Modern edition(s)

Querol Gavaldá, Miguel (ed). Cancionero Musical de la Casa de Medinaceli. 2 vols. Monumentos de la Música Española 8 & 9. Barcelona: CSIC, 1949.

Printed source(s)

Guerrero, Francisco. Canciones y villanescas espirituales, 3–5vv (Venice, 1589)

Manuscripts

[Madrid] Museo Lázaro Galdiano (E:M Galdiano) sign. 681, Ref 15411, tiple only

[Medinaceli] Cancionero de Medinaceli E-Mb 6829 (861) [olim: MS 13230]

[Valladolid] Valladolid, Catedral, Archivo de Música, MS 17