The , also known by the titles Cancionero del Duque de Calabria and Cancionero de Venecia, is a volume of mostly anonymous Spanish music printed in Venice in 1556. Its actual title is ''Villancicos de diversos Autores, a dos, y a tres, y a quatro, y a cinco bozes, agora nuevamente corregidos. Ay mas ocho tonos de
Canto llano, y ocho tonos de
Canto de Organo para que puedan aprovechar los que A cantar començaren. Venetiis, Apud
Hieronymum Scotum, MDLVI''. It survives in a unique copy at the
Uppsala University Library
The Uppsala University Library ( sv, Uppsala universitetsbibliotek) at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden, consists of 11 subject libraries, one of which is housed in the old main library building, Carolina Rediviva. The library holds books an ...
and was edited in 1909 by Rafael Mitjana; the subsequent literature has mostly adopted his spelling "Upsala" ("''Upsala''" being the historic Swedish spelling of "Uppsala" until the major spelling reform of 1906). A facsimile was first published by Alamire (
Peer,
Belgium
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1984) and later by the Biblioteca Valenciana (Valencia, Spain 2003).
Contents
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Villancico
The ''villancico'' (Spanish, ) or vilancete (Portuguese, ) was a common poetic and musical form of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America popular from the late 15th to 18th centuries. Important composers of villancicos were Juan del Encina, Pedro ...
s a dos bozes'' (for two voices)
''Villancicos a tres bozes'' (for three voices)
''Villancicos a quatro bozes'' (for four voices)
''Villancicos de Navidad a quatro bozes'' (Christmas villancicos for four voices)
''Villancicos de Navidad a tres bozes'' (Christmas villancicos for three voices)
''Villancicos a cinco bozes'' (for five voices)
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Digital copy of Cancionero de Upsalafrom
Uppsala University Library
The Uppsala University Library ( sv, Uppsala universitetsbibliotek) at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden, consists of 11 subject libraries, one of which is housed in the old main library building, Carolina Rediviva. The library holds books an ...
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Music books
Renaissance music manuscript sources
Spanish music