Nunca fue pena mayor

Updated on 01/02/2022
Composer
Reference source
Musical parameters
Voices Mensuration Clefs Signature Final
3
c c1c3c4 -
E
Edition
Editor
J. P. d'Alvarenga
Notes

For a list of non-Iberian and non Spanish-related sources of this piece, see Kreitner's 2004 article referred to below, p. 6, table 2.

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Bibliography
Becker, Danièle, “Texto y música en ‘Nunca fue pena mayor’ de García Álvarez de Toledo y Johannes Urrede”, Revista de Musicología, 16/3 (1993), 1469-81
Carpentier, Rachel, “Never was there Greater Fame: The International Life of a Spanish Song”, in The Anatomy of Iberian Polyphony around 1500, ed. by Esperanza Rodríguez-García and João Pedro d’Alvarenga, Iberian Early Music Studies, 5 (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2021) pp. 290-316
Hewitt, Helen, and Isabel Pope, eds, Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A, Studies and Documents, 5 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1942), pp. 85-6, 169
Kreitner, Kenneth, “The Musical Warhorses of Juan de Urrede”, Fontes Artis Musicae, 51 (2004), 1-18
Lama de la Cruz, Victor de, “‘Nunca fue pena mayor’ o el exito internacional de una canción castellana de la corte de Enrique IV”, Edad de Oro, 22 (2003), 95-111
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