Music for a Knight #20 - Guardame las vacas

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Ahhhhh just lovely

[HappyRick]

Guardame Las Vacas (Watch the Cows) was actually an extremely popular medieval romance throughout Europe. Many composers wrote their own version -- especially the Spanish vihuelists: Alonso Mudarra, Luys de Narvaez and Enriquez de Valderrabano. Mudarra iincludes three versions of Guardame Las Vacas in his tres libros... para vihuela.

[HappyRick]

Guardame Las Vacas is written in an Italian musical form known as a romance or Romanesca. A Romanesca is composed of a sequence of four chords with a repeating bass, which provide the groundwork for variations and improvisation with differencias (variations) on the theme.