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Alonso Mudarra

Durmiendo iba el Señor

 

Tres libros de música en cifra (1546), fol. III/10v

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Source title Romance. Entonase la vox e[n] la tercera al terxero traste.
Title in contents   Durmiendo yua el señor, con segunda diferencia.
Text incipit Durmiendo yua el señor


Music

Category song

Genre Romance

Fantasia type

Mode

Voices

Length (compases) 68

Vihuela

Tuning B

Courses 6

Final VI/3

Highest I/6

Lowest VI/0

Difficulty not specified

Tempo medium

Song Text

Language ES

Vocal notation texted staff notation

Commentary

The text of this romance is also found in a broadsheet (pliego suelto) entitled Siguen se quatro obras compuestas por Nofre Almodeuar...[y] Otro romance de otro autor. (Cuenca; [Juan de Cánova], [1557-1558?] where on fol. 4v it is attributed to “el Comendador Auila” (Infantes 2013, 36) don Luis de Zvila y Zúñiga, a member of the court of Carlos V, and a close friend of the emperor (Mele 1922).

Song Text

In Binkley Spanish Romances (with English translation), 115

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