Cancionero de la Colombina

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The Cancionero de la Colombina or Cancionero Musical de la Colombina (CMC) is a Spanish manuscript (Ms. 7-1-28) containing Renaissance music from the second half of the 15th century.[1]

The manuscript was copied during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, possibly between the 1460s and the 1480s. Therefore, it predates the more famous Cancionero de Palacio. The first half of the manuscript is the work of two main scribes, and the second half was completed by six other scribes.[1] It originally comprised 106 folios, 8 of which are lost. The general condition of the remaining folios is less than satisfactory. A title added on a later period reads "Cantilenas vulgares puestas en musica por varios Españoles" (Popular melodies set to music by various Spaniards).

The Cancionero de la Colombina has been related with the court of the powerful dukes of Medina Sidonia who lived in Seville and had contacts with Juan de Triana, the main composer of the manuscript.[2]

In 1534 it was bought by the second son of Christopher Columbus, the bibliophile Ferdinand Columbus, who added it to his rich Sevillian library of more than 15,000 volumes known by the name of "Columbine Library" (in Spanish, "Biblioteca Colombina"). After his death, the library was transferred to the Seville Cathedral, where it remains up to this day.

The Cancionero currently contains 95 musical settings, some of which are incomplete. Of this total, 53 remain anonymous. The authorship of several works could be established because they had been properly attributed in other cancioneros, especially the Cancionero de Palacio and the Cancionero de Montecassino.

The repertory in the manuscript is varied. Among the musical genres can be found canciones, villancicos, romances and ensaladas. Many of the villancicos and canciones are sacred, mostly Marian. Two of the works are in French and 12 are liturgical compositions in Latin. There are also two short versions in Castilian of the Song of the Sibyl ("El Cant de la Sibil·la"), nos. 73 and 91 ("Juysio fuerte será dado").

List of works[]

Nº Title Voices Composer Remarks
  1 Amor de penada gloria 3 Anonymous
  2 Pues con sobra de tristura 4 Enrique
  3 Canten todos bos en grito 1-2 Anonymous (incomplete)
  4 Gentil dama non se gana 3 Johannes Cornago
  5 O pena que me conbates 1-2 Juan de Triana (incomplete)
  6 Muy crueles bozes dan 3 Anonymous
  7 Señora, non me culpeys 3 Anonymous
  8 Doncella por cuyo amor 3
  9 Nunca fue pena mayor 3 Juan de Urrede Text by García Álvarez de Toledo
10 Dónde estás, que non te veo 3 Johannes Cornago
11 Muy triste será mi vida 4 Juan de Urrede
12 Oya tu merçed y crea 3 Anonymous
13 Tanto quanto me desplase 1-2 Anonymous (incomplete)
14 Qu'es mi vida, preguntays 4 Johannes Cornago /
Johannes Ockeghem
15 Non puedo si non querer 3 Anonymous
16 Mis tristes, tristes sospiros 3 Anonymous
17 Ay que non sé rremediarme 3
18 Pues que Dios te fizo tal 3 Johannes Cornago
19 Con temor vivo ojos tristes 3 Juan de Triana
20 Siempre creçe mi serviros 3
21 Quanto mi vida biviere 3 Anonymous
22 Señora, qual soy venido 3 Johannes Cornago /
Juan de Triana		 Text by Íñigo López de Mendoza
23 De mi perdida esperança 3 Juan de Triana
24 Pues mi dicha non consiente 3 Belmonte
25 Vive leda si podrás 3 Anonymous
26 Dama mi grand querer 3
27 Porque más sin duda creas 3 Johannes Cornago
28 No puedes quexar, amor 3 Juan de Triana
29 Laudate eum omnes angeli 2 Anonymous
30 Mi querer tanto vos quiere 4 Enrique
31 Mirando dama fermosa 3 Anonymous
32 De vos y de mi quejoso 3 Juan de Urrede
33 Andad, passiones, andad 3 Pedro de Lagarto
34 Quién vos dio tal señorio 4 Juan de Triana
35 Ya de amor era partido 3 Juan de Triana
36 De vida que tanto enoja 1-2 Anonymous
37 Pues no mejora mi suerte 1-2 Anonymous (incomplete)
38 Al dolor de mi cuydado 3 Juan Pérez de Gijón
39 Omni potentem 2 Anonymous
40 No tenga nadie sperança 3
41 (no title) 2 Anonymous
42 Con temor de la mudança 3
43 No consiento ni me plaze 3 Juan de Triana
44 Quanta gloria me dio veros 1-2 Anonymous (incomplete)
45 (no title) 4 Anonymous
46 Agnus 4 Anonymous
47 Sanctus 4 Anonymous
48 Dime, triste coraçón 4 Francisco de la Torre
49 Amar es servir 3 Anonymous
50 Mortales son los dolores 3 Anonymous
51 Pensamiento ve do vas 4 Anonymous
52 Olvida tu perdiçión 3 Anonymous
53 Quien tiene vida en esperança 3 Anonymous
54 Niña y viña 3 Anonymous
55 O gloriosa Domina 3 Anonymous
56 Es la vida que cobré 3 Anonymous
57 Propiñan de Melyor 3 Anonymous Instrumental
58 A quello trate domingo 3 Anonymous
59 Nuevas te traygo carillo 3 Anonymous /
Juan del Encina		 Instrumental
60 (no title) 1 Anonymous
61 Los hombres con gran plazer 3 Anonymous
62 Merçed, merçed le pidamos 3 Anonymous
63 Salve, sancta parens 4 Anonymous
64 Reyna muy esclareçida 3 Anonymous
65 Buenas nuevas de alegria 3 Anonymous
66 Deus in adjutorium 3 Juan de Triana
67 Tu valer me da gran guera 3 Juanes
68 In exitu Israel de Egipto 4 Anonymous
69 Maravillome del syno me del santiguome 3 Juan de Triana
70 Pinguele rrespinguete 3 Juan de Triana
71 La moça que las cabras cría 4 Juan de Triana
72 A los maytines era 5 Anonymous
73 Juysio fuerte será dado 4 Anonymous
74 Virgen dina de honor 4 Anonymous
75 Que bonito niño chiquito 4 Anonymous
76 (no title) 3 Anonymous
77 Qui fecit celum 3 Anonymous
78 Ay, Santa Maria 3 Anonymous
79 Dic nobis Maria 4 Anonymous
80 Benedicamus Domino 3 Juan de Triana
81 Benedicamus Domino 3 Juan de Triana
82 Juste judex Jesu Christe 3 Juan de Triana
83 (no title) 3 Anonymous
84 (no title) 4 Anonymous
85 Quia 3 Anonymous Instrumental
86 ¿Querer vieja yo? / Non puedo dexar /
Que non sé filar		 3 Juan de Triana
87 De la momera je n'estay 4 Johannes Ockeghem
88 Por beber, comadre 3 Juan de Triana
89 Aquella buena mujer 3 Juan de Triana
90 Dinos, madre del donsel 3 Juan de Triana
91 Juysio fuerte será dado 4 Juan de Triana
92 ¿Cómo no le andaré yo? 3 Anonymous
93 Pues que non tengo 3 Anonymous
94 Le pure amant qui est 3 Anonymous Instrumental
95 No tenga con vos amor 3 Anonymous

Bibliography[]

  • Historia de la música española. Vol 2. Desde el Ars Nova hasta 1600. Samuel Rubio. Alianza Editorial. Madrid. 1983.
  • El cancionero musical de la Colombina (siglo XV). Transcripción y estudio por Miguel Querol Gavaldá. 2a ed. Madrid. 1989. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Monumentos históricos de la música española Collection.
  • Anglés, Higinio. La música en la Corte de los Reyes Católicos. C.S.I.C. Madrid. 1960
  • Gómez Fernández, Lucía. Música, nobleza y mecenazgo: los duques de Medina Sidonia en Sevilla y Sanlúcar de Barrameda (1445-1615). Universidad de Cádiz. Cádiz. 2017.
  • Spanish Music in the Age of Columbus. Robert Louis Stevenson. Hyperion Pr. 1979. 0883558726
  • Sources, MS, §IX, 22: Renaissance polyphony: Spanish and Portuguese cathedral manuscripts. Grove Music Online.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b DIAMM - Source: E-Sc Ms. 7-1-28
  2. ^ Gómez Fernández, Lucía (2017). Música, nobleza y mecenazgo : los duques de Medina Sidonia en Sevilla y Sanlúcar de Barrameda (1445-1615). ISBN 9788498286571. OCLC 1031102131.

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