Luis de Narváez
Canción del primer tono [Si par soufrir, de Jean Courtois]
Los seis libros del Delphin (1538), fol. 43v
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| Source title | Cancion del primer tono. En la quarta en vazio esta la claue de fefaut. En la tercera en tercero traste esta la claue de cesolfaut |
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| Title in contents | Nicolas Gombert. Otra cancion del primer tono. |
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Music
Category intabulation
Genre chanson
Fantasia type
Mode 1
Voices 4
Length (compases) 64
Vihuela
Tuning G
Courses 6
Final V/2
Highest I/7
Lowest VI/0
Difficulty not specified
Tempo fast
Song Text
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Vocal notation
Commentary
Libro 3. The identification of “Si par soufrir” by Jean Courtois was made by Bart Roose, “Luys de Narváez. Otra canción del primer tono” in Geluit-Luthinerie, n°12/2000, 7-13.
Bevilacqua 2004 thesis (bevilacquaN), 101-104 erroneously identifies it with Gombert’s chanson Tu pers son temp and claims that after some initial resemblance, it becomes an increasingly free paraphrase.
Youtube recording of the Hilliard Ensemble performing the vocal model: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcRq7r-8Jrc
The original vocal source should be one of these Susato volumes:
Vingt et six chansons musicales ... a cinq parties" (Antwerp [1543]),
Premier livre des chansons à deux et trois parties" (Antwerp, 1544)
Premier livre des chansons à quatre parties - Le treziesme livre ... a six et huyt parties" (Antwerp, 1543 - 1550)
Ed. by Kristine Forney (NY: Garland, 1994) -- which I am assuming contains the chanson.
Literature
Recordings
Song Text
Intabulations
Modern edition(s)
Forney, Kristine K. ed. Chansons published by Tielman Susato. Sixteenth-century Chanson, vol. 29-30. New York: Garland, 1994.