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Luis Milán

Amor que tan bien sirviendo

 

El Maestro (1536), fol. Q2v

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Source title Este villancico que se sigue de la manera que aqui esta sonado el ca[n]tor puede hazer garganta/y la vihuela a d[e] yr tañida muy a espacia.
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Text incipit Amor que tan bien siruiendo


Music

Category song

Genre Villancico

Fantasia type

Mode

Voices 4

Length (compases) 35

Vihuela

Tuning A

Courses 6

Final VI/3

Highest I/6

Lowest VI/3

Difficulty not specified

Tempo slow

Song Text

Language ES

Vocal notation texted cifras rojas

Commentary

One of Milán’s original vihuela settings in a predominantly homophonic style. The harmonic language is strongly diatonic. Some commentators have attempted to associate it with some of the common song formulae of the time, but this is not the case. Lafargue in a paper read at the Medieval and Renaissance conference (Spoleto, 2001) suggested affilition on the one hand with Conde Claros because of the I-IV-V progressions, and with Guárdame las vacas and the romanesca family given that it starts on chord III and finishes on I. Two other songs by Milán, Quien amores, Falai miña amor, are also built on the same iI-IV-V harmonic structure
Lafargue in the same paper. Lafargue does not make this claim in her PhD thesis, however.

Harmonic/melodic structure:
Estribillo: A - A - B - B’
Vuelta: C - D

harmony:
A (in Eb): I - IV- V - I - V - V- I

B: (Eb) I -IV - V - I / I - IV - V - I // )Cmin) iv -V - i