O, qué nueva (Francisco Guerrero)

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• (Posted 2012-08-30)  CPDL #27048:        (Sibelius 6)

Editor: Lewis Jones (submitted 2012-08-30).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 37 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Original note values. Down a fifth according to chiavette.

• (Posted 1999-09-28)  CPDL #00171:         

Editors: Paco Marmol and Manolo Casaus (submitted 1999-09-28).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 87 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: O, qué nueva
Composer: Francisco Guerrero

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB, or AATBarB
Genre: Secular, Villancico

Language: Spanish
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1589 in Canciones y villanescas espirituales, no. 13
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Spanish text ¡O qué nueva, o gran bien! Da nos d’esse bien aviso que está hecho parayso el pesebre de Belén ¡Quién pensó que un pesebruelo donde un flaco buey comía un rato fuese tan çielo como el vientre de María! ¡Alegría, o gran bien! Da nos…

English translation O great news, oh great thing! Give us this prized news, so Jesus was born in a great-heaven crib. Who think that a little trough, where ate a skinny ox, was as beautiful as the Virgin belly? Happiness, oh great thing! Give us…

French translation O quelle nouvelle, o quelle chose! Donne nous ces nouvelles. Le crèche de Jesus est un paradis parce qu'il est né là. Qui pensait qu'un mangeoire vieux, où un boeuf mangeait, un moment serait autant jolie que le ventre de la Vierge? O quelle joie, o quelle chose! Donne nous…