Cancioneiro de Belém
The Cancioneiro Musical de Belém (English: Belém Musical Songbook) or simply Cancioneiro de Belém (Santa Maria de Belém, Lisbon, National Archaeology Museum, Ms 3391) is a Renaissance Portuguese manuscript from the beginning of the 17th century.
General description
This little manuscript with just 18 songs was found in the archives of the National Archaeology Museum, in Belém (Lisbon), by the end of the 1960s. Currently with 77 folios sized 191 x 130 mm, the songs proper are found between folios 58v and 74.
Inside the songbook, an inscription reads Porto, dia de S. Miguel, 603. (Porto, St. Michael's Day, 1603). In spite of that, the music therein is considerably older, being dated as belonging to the period between 1560-1580. This songbook contains the only Portuguese manuscript madrigals known to date, besides vilancetes, cantigas and two rare examples of sacred villancicos, one for Christmas (Pues a Dios humano vemos) and the other for the feast of Corpus Christi (O manjar bivo, dulçe i provechoso).
A few songs are also found in other manuscript sources, as for instance the Cancioneiro de Elvas, and in printed Spanish editions of the 16th century, but the majority of the works are found exclusively in this manuscript.
Among the poets that have been identified are Dom Manuel de Portugal (1516-1606) and the poet-composer Jorge de Montemor (c.1520-1561), as well as the Castilians Garcilaso de la Vega (1503-1536) and the little-known poet Cetina "the Nun".
Publication date and place: 1603 in Porto, Portugal. – Manuscript
List of works
Nº | Folio(s) | Title | Composer | Text | Language | Concordance |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | 58v-59 | Pues a Dios humano vemos | Anonymous | Spanish | ||
2. | 59v-60 | Ay de mim sin ventura | Anonymous | Cetina "the Nun" | Spanish | |
3. | 60v-63 | Baxad, Señora los ojos | Anonymous | Spanish | ||
4. | 63v-64 | [Oh] Dulçe suspiro mio | Anonymous | Spanish | ||
5. | 65 | Venid a suspirar al verde prado | Anonymous | Spanish | CME | |
6. | 65v-66 | Desperança vos vestistes | Anonymous | Portuguese | ||
7. | 66v | Dame [a]cogida en tu hato | Anonymous | Spanish | DAZ, ODA | |
8. | 67 | Oy[u]elos graçiosos | Anonymous | Spanish | CME | |
9. | 67v | Mira que negro amor y que nonada | Anonymous | Spanish | CME | |
10. | 68 | Aquella voluntad que se ha rendido | Anonymous | Manuel de Portugal | Spanish | CME |
11. | 68v | Sabete Gil que me muero | Anonymous | Spanish | ||
12. | 69 | En la peña, yunto la peña | Anonymous | Antonio de Villegas | Spanish | |
13. | 69v-70 | Qu[i]en te hizo Yuan pastor | Anonymous | Spanish | DAZ | |
14. | 70v-71 | Tierras mias ado nasci | Anonymous | Spanish | CML | |
15. | 71v | O manjar bivo, dulçe i provechoso | Anonymous | Spanish | ||
16. | 72 | De mi ventura quexoso | Anonymous | Spanish | ||
17. | 72v-73 | O mas dura que marmor a mis quexas | Anonymous | Garcilaso de la Vega | Spanish | |
18. | 73v-74 | Flerida en cuja mano | Jorge de Montemor | Jorge de Montemor | Spanish |
Works at CPDL
Title | Year | Composer | No. | Genre | Subgenre | Vo. | Voices |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aquella voluntad | 1603 | Anonymous | 10 | Secular | 3 | STB | |
Ojuelos graciosos | 1603 | Anonymous | 8 | Secular | Villancicos | 3 | SAT |
Soledad tengo de ti | 1603 | Anonymous | 14 | Secular | Villancicos | 3 | ATB |
Venid a sospirar al verde prado | 1603 | Anonymous | 5 | Secular | Villancicos | 3 | STB |
Concordance with other manuscripts:
- [CME] - Cancioneiro Musical de Elvas (P-Em 11793)
- [CML] - Cancioneiro de Lisboa (Cancioneiro Musical da Biblioteca Nacional) (Lisboa, Biblioteca Nacional C.I.C. 60) (P-Lm Res C.I.C. 60)
- [DAZ] - Libro de música de cifras para vihuela, intitulado El Parnaso (1576), Esteban Daza
- [ODA] - Odarum (Quas vulgo madrigales appellamus) (1561), Pere Alberc i Vila
External links
View the Wikipedia article on Cancioneiro de Belém.
- Cancioneiro de Belém at the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)