Riu, riu, chiu (Mateo Flecha (El Viejo))

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• CPDL #13161:

Editor: Anders Stenberg (added 2006-11-26).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 96 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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• CPDL #10920: MIDI and NOTEWORTHY COMPOSER files available.

Editor: Brian Russell (added 2006-02-03).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 42 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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• CPDL #8646: PDF, MIDI and Lilypond files available.

Editor: Nancho Alvarez (added 2004-11-30).   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: individual parts available as midi files. also available as Postscript file.

• CPDL #7443: PDF file available.

Editor: Fernando Gómez Jácome (added 2004-07-03).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, kbytes   Copyright: Personal

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• CPDL #4536: PDF file available.

Editor: Udo Baake (added 2003-01-24).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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• CPDL #2166:

Editor: Abel Di Marco (added 2001-03-14).   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: FinaleViewer plug-in required to view the score; a Windows version may be obtained from the Cantoral site (  English or Spanish download page).

• CPDL #1843: ENCORE

Editor: Francisco Alfonso Valdivia Sevilla (added 2000-12-06).   Score information: 24 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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• CPDL #748: PDF and ABC files available.

Editor: Laura Conrad (added 2000-03-14).   Copyright: GnuGPL

Edition notes: in partbook format

• CPDL #4: ENCORE

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General Information

Title: Riu, riu, chiu
Composer: Anonymous (Cancionero de Upsala), but now generally attributed to Mateo Flecha (El Viejo)

Number of voices: 4vv  Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Villancicos

Language: Spanish
Instruments: a cappella.
Published: Cancionero de Uppsala, #46, 1556

Description:

External websites:

• Performance by the dwsChorale - a one man choir.

Original text and translations

Spanish text

Chorus:

Riu riu chiu, la guarda ribera;

Dios guardo el lobo de nuestra cordera,

Dios guardo el lobo de neustra cordera.

1.

El lobo rabioso la quiso morder,

Mas Dios poderoso la supo defender;

Quisola hazer que no pudiese pecar,

Ni aun original esta Virgen no tuviera.

2.

Este qu'es nacido es el gran monarca,

Christo patriarca, de carne vestido;

hanos redimido con se hacer chiquito,

a un qu'era infinito, finito se hiziera.

3.

Muchas profecias lo han profetizado,

Ya un nuestros dias lo hemos al consado

Adios humanado vemos en el suelo,

Yal hombre nelcielo porquel le quistera.

4.

Yo vi mil garzones que andaban cantando,

por aquí volando, haciendo mil sones,

diciendo a gascones: "Gloria sea en el cielo

y paz en el suelo", pues de sus nasciera.

5.

Este viene a dar a los muertos vida

y viene a reparar de todos la caída;

es la luz del día aqueste mozuelo;

este es el cordero que San Juan dixera.

6.

Mira bien queos quadre que ansina lo oyera,

Que Dios no pudiera hacer la mas que madre,

El quera su padre hoy della nascio

Y el que la drio su hijo so dixera.

7.

Pues que ya tenemos lo que deseamos,

todos juntos vamos, presentes llevemos;

todos le daremos muestra voluntad,

pues a se igualar con el hombre viniera.

English translation

Chorus

Riu, riu, chiu

The river bank protects it,

As God kept the wolf from our lamb

1.

The rabid wolf tried to bite her

But God Almighty knew how to defend her

He wished to create her impervious to sin

Nor was this maid to embody original sin

2.

He who's now begotten is our mighty Monarch

Christ, our Holy Father, in human flesh embodied

He has brought atonement by being born so humble

Though He is immortal, as mortal was created

4.

A thousand singing herons

I saw passing,

Flying overhead, sounding

A thousand voices

Exulting, "Glory be in the

heavens, and peace on earth,

for Jesus has been born."