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").
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 | J. Rodríguez Torote | |
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 | Juan de León | |
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 | Juán Fernández de Madrid | |
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 | Móxica | |
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 | Hurtado de Xerés | |
41 | (no title) | 2 | Anonymous | |
42 | Con temor de la mudança | 3 | Hurtado de Xerés | |
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 | |
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