Cancionero de Upsala

The Cancionero de Upsala [sic] is the title commonly given to a volume of mostly anonymous Spanish music printed in Venice in 1556 and actually titled Villancicos de diuersos Autores, a dos, y a tres, y a quatro, y ya a cinco bozes...Venetiis, Apud Hieronymum Scotum, MDLVI. It survives in a unique copy at the Uppsala University Library 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 published by Alamire (Peer, Belgium 1984).

Contents

It is famous chiefly for the following carols or villancicos de Navidad:

VILLANCICOS DE NAVIDAD a 4 bozes

• Nola dovemos dormirla XXXII (These numbers and the following given in the table of contents are off by two; Nola... is actually found at p XXXIV)
• Rey aquien Reyes adoran XXXIII
• Verbum caro factum est XXXIIII
• Alta Reyna soberana XXXV
• Gozate virgen sacrada XXXVI
• Un niño nos es naçido XXXVII
• Dadme Albriçias hyo deva XXXVIII
• Yo me soy la morenica yo XXXIX
• Ela don don don XL
• Riu Riu Chiu la guarda XLI

VILLANCICOS DE NAVIDAD a 3 bozes

• Señores el ques nasçido de XLII
• Voy Virgen soys nuestra madre XLII

External links

• Free scores from Cancionero de Upsala in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)