Cancionero

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First page of the Cancionero de Baena

A Cancionero ( Spanish ) or Cancioneiro ( Galician-Portuguese ) or Cançoner ( Catalan - Occitan ) is generally a collection of songs or a collection of poems by several authors or by a single author (for example the Cancionero des Jorge ) in the poetry of the Iberian Peninsula de Montemayor from 1561) and in particular the corresponding preserved medieval song manuscripts. Unlike comparable collections in France ( chansonnier ) and Italy ( canzoniere ), these manuscripts do not contain any musical notation.

Well-known manuscripts are:

  • Cancioneiro da Ajuda : 310 poems, mainly cantigas de amor without mentioning the authors; Originated in Portugal at the end of the 13th century; contains a cantiga de amigo by Pai Soares de Taverió, which can be dated to 1189; today in the Biblioteca da Ajuda in Lisbon
  • Cancioneiro da Vaticana : 1205 poems by different authors; Compiled in Italy at the end of the 15th century and rediscovered in 1840, today Codex 4803 of the Vatican Library
  • Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional : manuscript copied in Italy at the end of the 15th century, which was found in the library of Count Paolo Brancuti di Cagli in 1878 (hence Cancionero Colocci-Brancuti ); is considered the most important Galician-Portuguese collection and comprises 1647 compositions and a treatise; today in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal in Lisbon
  • Cancionero de Stúñiga : around 2000 songs by 300 mostly Galician-Portuguese poets from the period between 1250 and 1350
  • Cancionero de Baena : 385 predominantly Castilian songs from the 14th and 15th centuries, compiled by Juan Alfonso de Baena
Front title and first page of Cancioneiro Geral

The mentioned Cancioneros are song manuscripts that were mostly owned by aristocrats. Cancioneros began to appear in print from the beginning of the 16th century, for example:

  • Cancionero general (1511) by Hernando del Castillo : 1056 poems by 239 authors known by name and numerous anonymous authors
  • Cancioneiro Geral (1516) by Garcia de Resende ; almost 1000 poems by 289 authors from the period 1449 to 1516 in Galician-Portuguese and Castilian languages
  • Cancionero de obras de burlas provocantes a risa (1519): Collection of ridiculous poems and crude erotic songs; extended version of the last part of the Cancionero general

If the terms Cancionero or Cancioneiro are to be used differently, Cancioneiro refers to the collections of Galician-Portuguese song poetry that were created at the end of the 12th century. These songs ( cantigas ) were thematically differentiated into:

Cancionero, on the other hand, usually refers to the Castilian collections that were created between around 1360 and 1520, and this always applies in particular to the generic terms poesía de cancionero and poesía cancioneril . The corpus of this courtly song poem includes around 2000 poems by around 500 authors known by name, including all of the important Castilian poets of the 15th century, namely Francisco Imperial , Iñigo López de Mendoza , Fernán Pérez de Guzmán , Juan de Mena , Gómez Manrique , Jorge Manrique , Íñigo de Mendoza and Garci Sánchez de Badajoz , as well as some poets known more as authors of prose, such as Juan Rodríguez del Padrón , Diego de Valera , Alfonso de la Torre and Diego de San Pedro .

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