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]

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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

TitleVoicesComposerRemarks
  1Amor de penada gloria3Anonymous
  2Pues con sobra de tristura4Enrique
  3Canten todos bos en grito1-2Anonymous(incomplete)
  4Gentil dama non se gana3 Johannes Cornago
  5O pena que me conbates1-2 Juan de Triana (incomplete)
  6Muy crueles bozes dan3Anonymous
  7Señora, non me culpeys3Anonymous
  8Doncella por cuyo amor3 J. Rodríguez Torote
  9Nunca fue pena mayor3 Juan de Urrede Text by García Álvarez de Toledo
10Dónde estás, que non te veo3 Johannes Cornago
11Muy triste será mi vida4 Juan de Urrede
12Oya tu merçed y crea3Anonymous
13Tanto quanto me desplase1-2Anonymous(incomplete)
14Qu'es mi vida, preguntays4 Johannes Cornago /
Johannes Ockeghem
15Non puedo si non querer3Anonymous
16Mis tristes, tristes sospiros3Anonymous
17Ay que non sé rremediarme3 Juan de León
18Pues que Dios te fizo tal3 Johannes Cornago
19Con temor vivo ojos tristes3 Juan de Triana
20Siempre creçe mi serviros3 Juán Fernández de Madrid
21Quanto mi vida biviere3Anonymous
22Señora, qual soy venido3 Johannes Cornago /
Juan de Triana
Text by Íñigo López de Mendoza
23De mi perdida esperança3 Juan de Triana
24Pues mi dicha non consiente3Belmonte
25Vive leda si podrás3Anonymous
26Dama mi grand querer3 Móxica
27Porque más sin duda creas3 Johannes Cornago
28No puedes quexar, amor3 Juan de Triana
29Laudate eum omnes angeli2Anonymous
30Mi querer tanto vos quiere4Enrique
31Mirando dama fermosa3Anonymous
32De vos y de mi quejoso3 Juan de Urrede
33Andad, passiones, andad3 Pedro de Lagarto
34Quién vos dio tal señorio4 Juan de Triana
35Ya de amor era partido3 Juan de Triana
36De vida que tanto enoja1-2Anonymous
37Pues no mejora mi suerte1-2Anonymous(incomplete)
38Al dolor de mi cuydado3 Juan Pérez de Gijón
39Omni potentem2Anonymous
40No tenga nadie sperança3 Hurtado de Xerés
41(no title)2Anonymous
42Con temor de la mudança3 Hurtado de Xerés
43No consiento ni me plaze3 Juan de Triana
44Quanta gloria me dio veros1-2Anonymous(incomplete)
45(no title)4Anonymous
46Agnus4Anonymous
47Sanctus4Anonymous
48Dime, triste coraçón4 Francisco de la Torre
49Amar es servir3Anonymous
50Mortales son los dolores3Anonymous
51Pensamiento ve do vas4Anonymous
52Olvida tu perdiçión3Anonymous
53Quien tiene vida en esperança3Anonymous
54Niña y viña3Anonymous
55O gloriosa Domina3Anonymous
56Es la vida que cobré3Anonymous
57Propiñan de Melyor3AnonymousInstrumental
58A quello trate domingo3Anonymous
59Nuevas te traygo carillo3Anonymous /
Juan del Encina
Instrumental
60(no title)1Anonymous
61Los hombres con gran plazer3Anonymous
62Merçed, merçed le pidamos3Anonymous
63Salve, sancta parens4Anonymous
64Reyna muy esclareçida3Anonymous
65Buenas nuevas de alegria3Anonymous
66Deus in adjutorium3 Juan de Triana
67Tu valer me da gran guera3Juanes
68In exitu Israel de Egipto4Anonymous
69Maravillome del syno me del santiguome3 Juan de Triana
70Pinguele rrespinguete3 Juan de Triana
71La moça que las cabras cría4 Juan de Triana
72A los maytines era5Anonymous
73Juysio fuerte será dado4Anonymous
74Virgen dina de honor4Anonymous
75Que bonito niño chiquito4Anonymous
76(no title)3Anonymous
77Qui fecit celum3Anonymous
78Ay, Santa Maria3Anonymous
79Dic nobis Maria4Anonymous
80Benedicamus Domino3 Juan de Triana
81Benedicamus Domino3 Juan de Triana
82Juste judex Jesu Christe3 Juan de Triana
83(no title)3Anonymous
84(no title)4Anonymous
85Quia3AnonymousInstrumental
86¿Querer vieja yo? / Non puedo dexar /
Que non sé filar
3 Juan de Triana
87De la momera je n'estay4 Johannes Ockeghem
88Por beber, comadre3 Juan de Triana
89Aquella buena mujer3 Juan de Triana
90Dinos, madre del donsel3 Juan de Triana
91Juysio fuerte será dado4 Juan de Triana
92¿Cómo no le andaré yo?3Anonymous
93Pues que non tengo3Anonymous
94Le pure amant qui est3AnonymousInstrumental
95No tenga con vos amor3Anonymous

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