Cancionero de Turin

The Cancionero de Turin or Cancionero Musical de Turin is a musical manuscript that contains Spanish secular polyphonic works from the period between the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century, in the transition period between the Renaissance and the Baroque eras.

The manuscript

The manuscript is kept at the National University Library (R.1–14) in Turin, Italy.

47 pieces are listed in the index section, however one of them is a duplication. Three other works—two of which are duplicates—in the manuscript are not included in the index. On the other hand, the works listed as numbers 36 and 37, Salte y baile and Mi voluntad no me dexa are in fact parts of a single work titled Por dinero baila el perro. Therefore, the cancionero contains 46 individual works. One of them is for 4 voices, 35 are for 3 voices and the ten remaining are for 2 voices. The musical forms employed are the villancico, the canción and the romance.

All the pieces are anonymous, but one of them, Sobre moradas violetas, is also found in the Cancionero de la Sablonara, attributed to the Sevillian guitarist and composer Juan de Palomares, on a text by Catalina Zamudio.

Several texts were extracted from the romancero or were written by known authors, such as Lope de Vega, Catalina Zamudio, etc.

List of works

Title Voices Genre Conc. Recordings Comments
1Por la puente, Juana3RomanceFICThe refrain is found in several 17th-century re-compilations. It's also the title of a comedy by Lope de Vega.
2Ay, malogrados pensamientos míos2CanciónFIC
3Ya no soy quien ser solía3
4¿Qué es esto pensamiento?3
5A la gineta y vestido2
6Adiós esperanças3VillancicoFIC
7Al enredador, vecinas3FIC
8Ay suspiros3
9Aquí ho hay que esperar3
10Ay, amargas soledades2RomanceCLA, FICText: Lope de Vega
11Volved pensamiento mío3
12Bella pastorcica3VillancicoFIC
13¿Cómo puede temer daño?3
14Con çiertas desconfianças3
15Cómo retumban los remos3
16De pechos sobre una peña3
17¿Dónde estás, Señora mía?3RomancePMA, FICAlso known by the title Romance del Marqués de Mantua, it is cited in the novel Don Quixote.
18Desdichada la dama2FIC
19De los álamos vengo3
20En esta larga ausencia2
21Fuego de Dios2RomanceFICCalderón de la Barca wrote a comedy based on this romance.
22Gavilán que andáis de noche3VillancicoFIC
23La ocasión del mal que siento3
24Madre, la mi madre5/3PMA, FICVariants of the text appear in works by Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca and Miguel de Cervantes (El celoso extremeño). Composer Pedro Ruimonte set one of these variants to music in his Parnaso Español de madrigales y villancicos.
25La morena graciosa3
26En el campo florido3
27Río de Sevilla3
28= No 43
29Mal haya, quien s'enamora3
30No me lo pregunte, madre3
31No paséis, el caballero3
32No puedo en tus ojos bellos2VillancicoFIC
33No quiero contar mi pena4
34Ojos no lloréis3
35Horas tristes y amargas3
36Salte y baile
(Por dinero baila el perro)
3VillancicoFIC
37Señora, después que os vi3
38Vay os amores2VillancicoFIC
39Sobre moradas violetas3RomanceSABFICComposer: Juan de Palomar — Text: Catalina Zamudio
40Otras veces m'avéis visto3
41Mi querido es ido al monte3
42Puse mis cabellos3
43Pensamiento, pues dizen3CanciónFIC
44Era la noche más fría3
45Blanda la mano2
46No lloréis casada2VillancicoFICIt's a villancico on the subject of the mal maridada (badly married lady), of French–Provençal origin.
47= No 123
48En el más soberbio monte3
49= No 163

Concordance with other manuscripts:

Discography

  • 1982/1990 - [PMA] Música en la obra de Cervantes. Pro Música Antiqua de Madrid. Miguel Ángel Tallante. MEC 1028 CD
  • 2002 - [CLA] Canciones de amor y de guerra. Clarincanto. Pneuma
  • 2005 - [FIC] Cancionero de Turín. Musica Ficta. Raúl Mallavibarrena. Enchiriadis EN 2013.

References and bibliography

  • Querol Gavaldá, Miguel (1989). Cancionero musical de Turín: transcripción y estudio. Madrid: Sociedad Española de Musicología. p. 106. 978-84-86878-51-1.
  • Bertini, Giovanni M. (1946). Poesie spagnole del seicento. Collezione di Classici Stranieri. Torino: Chiantore.
  • Raúl Mallavibarrena's article inside the booklet of the album Cancionero de Turín by Musica Ficta.
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