Cancionero de Turin


The Cancionero de Turin or Cancionero Musical de Turin is a musical manuscript that contains Spanish secular polyphonic 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 Baroque eras.

The manuscript

The manuscript is kept at the National University Library 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, attributed to the Sevillian 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 Lope de Vega, Catalina Zamudio, etc.

List of works

Concordance with other manuscripts:

Discography

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