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Cancionero de Upsala

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.

Modern history

The sole copy known to exist was rediscovered in Carolina Rediviva's music collections at Uppsala University Library in 1906 by Spanish diplomat and music scholar (1869–1921).

It was edited in 1909 by 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).

In 1913 the book was bound by bookbinder to the Royal Court of Sweden at Mitjana's cost.

A facsimile was first published by Alamire (Peer, Belgium 1984) and later by the Biblioteca Valenciana (Valencia, Spain 2003).

Contents

Villancicos 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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