The ''Cancionero de Turin'' or ''Cancionero Musical de Turin'' is a musical manuscript that contains Spanish secular

polyphonic Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice, monophony, or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords, h ...

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

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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 The Cancionero de la Sablonara (preserved at the Bavarian State Library in Munich) is a Spanish manuscript (Cod.hisp. 2, formerly also known as Mus.ms. E) containing polyphonic canción, canciones from Spain and Portugal, composed in the first quart ...

, attributed to the

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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

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, Catalina Zamudio, etc.

List of works

Concordance with other manuscripts: *SAB - Múnich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Mus. Ms. E.200 (

Discography

* 1982/1990 - MA'' Música en la obra de Cervantes. Pro Música Antiqua de Madrid. Miguel Ángel Tallante. MEC 1028 CD * 2002 - LA'' Canciones de amor y de guerra. Clarincanto. Pneuma * 2005 - IC'' Cancionero de Turín. Musica Ficta. Raúl Mallavibarrena. Enchiriadis EN 2013.

References and bibliography

* * {{Cite book, last=Bertini , first=Giovanni M., others=Collezione di Classici Stranieri , title=Poesie spagnole del seicento , publisher=Chiantore , year=1946 , location=Torino * Raúl Mallavibarrena's article inside the booklet of the album ''Cancionero de Turín'' by Musica Ficta.

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