Cancioneiro de Belém
Introduction Title pageThe '''Cancioneiro Musical de Belém''' (English: Belém Musical Songbook) or simply '''Cancioneiro de Belém''' (Santa Maria de Belém, Lisbon, National Archaeology Museum, Ms 3391) is a Portuguese Renaissance manuscript from the beginning of the 17th century.
General description This little manuscript with just 18 songs was found in the archives of the National Archaeology Museum, in Belém (Lisbon), by the end of the 1960s by professors Arthur Lee-Francis Askins and Jack Sage, specialists in Iberian lyric of the 16th century. It was later studied by Manuel Morais, who published in 1988 a critical edition of the cancioneiro, together with a musical transcription to modern notation of all eighteen songs.Currently with 77 folios sized 191 x 130 mm, the songs proper are found between folios 58v and 74.In recent times (possibly in the 19th century) the manuscript received a brown leather cover, to which side a title was added: ''Manuscriptos / Varios''.Inside the songbook, an inscription reads ''Porto, dia de S. Miguel, 603''. (Porto, St. Michael's Day,i.e., 29 September 1603). In spite of that, the music therein is considerably older, being dated as belonging to the period between 1560-1580.This songbook contains the only Portuguese manuscript madrigals known to date, besides vilancetes, cantigas and two rare examples of sacred villancicos, one for Christmas (''Pues a Dios humano vemos'') and the other for the feast of Corpus Christi (''O manjar bivo, dulçe i provechoso'').A few songs are also found in other manuscript sources, as for instance the Cancioneiro de Elvas, and in printed Spanish editions of the 16th century, but the majority of the works are ''unica'', that is, found exclusively in this manuscript.Among the poets that have been identified are Dom Manuel de Portugal (1516-1606) and the poet-composer Jorge de Montemor (c.1520-1561), as well as the Castilians Garcilaso de la Vega (1503-1536) and the little-known poet Cetina "the Nun".
List of works The villancico ''Pues a Dios humano vemos''+     Nº Folio(s) Title Composer Text Language Concordance Recordings   1.58v-59  Pues a Dios humano vemos  Anonymous   Spanish   SEG   2.59v-60  Ay de mim sin ventura  Anonymous  Cetina "the Nun"  Spanish   SEG   3.60v-63  Baxad, Señora los ojos  Anonymous   Spanish   SEG   4.63v-64  s:es:O dulce suspiro mio|Oh Dulçe suspiro mio  Anonymous   Spanish   SEG   5.65  Venid a suspirar al verde prado  Anonymous   Spanish  CME  STU, SEG, UFF, BAL   6.65v-66  Desperança vos vestistes  Anonymous   Portuguese   SEG   7.66v  s:es:Dame acogida en tu hato|Dame acogida en tu hato  Anonymous   Spanish  DAZ, ODA  SEG   8.67  s:es:Ojuelos graciosos|Oyuelos graçiosos  Anonymous   Spanish  CME  SEG   9.67v  Mira que negro amor y que nonada  Anonymous   Spanish CME  SEG 10.68  Aquella voluntad que se ha rendido  Anonymous  Manuel de Portugal  Spanish  CME  SEG, UFF 11.68v  Sabete Gil que me muero  Anonymous   Spanish  SEG 12.69  En la peña, yunto la peña  Anonymous  Antonio de Villegas  Spanish   SEG 13.69v-70  s:es:Quién te hizo, Juan pastor|Quien te hizo Yuan pastor  Anonymous   Spanish DAZ  SEG 14.70v-71  Tierras mias ado nasci  Anonymous   Spanish  CML  SEG 15.71v  O manjar bivo, dulçe i provechoso  Anonymous   Spanish   SEG 16.72  De mi ventura quexoso  Anonymous   Spanish   SEG 17.72v-73  O mas dura que marmor a mis quexas  Anonymous  Garcilaso de la Vega  Spanish   SEG 18.73v-74  Flerida en cuja mano  Jorge de Montemor  Jorge de Montemor  Spanish   SEGConcordance with other manuscripts:*'''CME''' - Cancioneiro Musical de Elvas (P-Em 11793)*'''CML''' - Cancioneiro de Lisboa (Cancioneiro Musical da Biblioteca Nacional) (Lisboa, Biblioteca Nacional C.I.C. 60) (P-Lm Res C.I.C. 60)*'''DAZ''' - ''Libro de música de cifras para vihuela, intitulado El Parnaso'' (1576), Esteban Daza*'''ODA''' - ''Odarum (Quas vulgo madrigales appellamus)'' (1561), Pere Alberc i Vila
Discography *1964 - '''STU''' '''Frühe spanische Musik im "Goldenen Zeitalter"'''. Studio der frühen Musik. Telefunken "Das Alte Werk" AWT 8039 (EP). *1988 - '''SEG''' '''Portuguese Mannerist Music - Cancioneiro Musical de Belém'''. Segréis de Lisboa. Movieplay. *1998 - '''UFF''' '''Música no tempo das Caravelas'''. Música Antiga da UFF. *2005 - '''BAL''' '''Love and Devotion - Iberian Music from the 13th to the 16th centuries'''. Il Dolce Ballo. Independent.
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