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". A facsimile was published by Alamire (Peer, Belgium 1984).

Contents

It is famous chiefly for the following carols or "vilancicos de navidad":

VILANCICOS 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

VILANCICOS DE NAVIDAD a 3

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

The complete contents is given in the Spanish and French articles listed to the left.

Editions

*ChoralWiki|Cancionero de Upsala
* [http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Riu%2C_riu%2C_chiu_%28Mateo_Flecha_el_Viejo%29 Riu riu chiu] is now attributed to Mateo Flecha the elder.