Commo no le andare yo – Colombina
Composer: Anonymous
Today’s word “villancico” comes from “villanesca”, which in turn refers to pieces such as this typical example of a secular work from the Colombina manuscript: with racy lyrics and a rustic, “villana” setting, it describes an encounter in the countryside between a girl and a shepherd, who ends up shouting out for all his belongings.
Lyrics
Commo no le andare yo
mesquina
tan desmayada
Dixo la niña al pastor
miras pastor que tetas
dixo el pastor a la niña
¡mas me querria dos setas!
¡…mi çurron mi çamarrón
mi cayada mi almarada
y mi yesca y mi eslabón!
How should I not go about
wretched
and so faint?
Said the girl to the shepherd:
“Look, shepherd, what breasts!”
Said the shepherd to the girl:
“I would rather have two mushrooms!”
“… my pouch, my sheepskin,
my crook, my awl,
and my tinder and my flint!”
Credits
ACCADEMIA DEL PIACERE
Fahmi Alqhai, viola da gamba & direction
Alena Dantcheva, soprano
Gabriel Díaz, countertenor
Ariel Hernández, tenor
Jesús García Aréjula, baritone
Javier Jiménez Cuevas, bass
Rami Alqhai, viola da gamba
Johanna Rose, viola da gamba
Carles Blanch, vihuela
Marta Graziolino, harp
Francisco Javier Núñez, organ
Pedro Estevan, percussion
Jacobo Díaz, shawm
David García, sackbut
Luis Castillo, dulcian
Recording and editing (video and audio): Félix Vázquez
