Más vale trocar (Juan del Encina)

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Editor: Fernando Gómez Jácome (submitted 2010-05-30).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 76 kB   Copyright: Personal

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• CPDL #08638:  PDF, MIDI and LilyPond files available.

Editor: Nancho Alvarez (submitted 2004-11-30).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 62 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Más vale trocar
Composer: Juan del Encina

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Villancico

Language: Spanish
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Cancionero de Palacio, #190 in Barbieri's index

Description:

External websites:

• lyrics in the original cancionero (facsimile), at Cervantes Virtual Library
• Solo performance by Rómulo Vega-González following 16th century pronunciation of the Spanish text.

Original text and translations

Spanish text

Más vale trocar
plazer por dolores
que estar sin amores.

Donde es gradecido
es dulce el morir;
bivir en olvido,
aquel no es vivir;
mejor es sufrir
passión y dolores
que estar sin amores

Es vida perdida
bivir sin amar
y mas es que vida
saberla emplear;
mejor es penar
sufriendo dolores
que estar sin amores.

La muerte es vitoria
do bive aficion
que espera aver gloria
quien sufre passion;
mas vale presion
de tales dolores
que estar sin amores.

El ques mas penado
mas goza de amor
quel mucho cuydado
le quita el temor:
asís ques mejor
amar con dolores
que estar sin amores.

No teme tormento
quien ama con fe,
si su pensamiento
sin causa no fue;
aviendo por que
mas valen dolores
que estar sin amores.

Amor que no pena
no pida placer
pues ya le condena
su poco querer;
mejor es perder
plazer por dolores
que estar sin amores.

English translation

It is better to exchange
pleasure for pain
than to live without love.

If you are thankful
it is sweet to die,
to live in oblivion
is not to live at all
It is better to endure
passion and pain
than to live without love.

It is a wasted life
to live without love
it is a better living
to know how to use it
It is better to grieve
suffering pain
than to live without love.

Death is victory
where affliction lives
hoping for glory
whoever suffers passion.
It is better to have the pressure
of those pains
than to live without love.

Whoever grieves the most
enjoys love the most
since much care
takes fear away;
So it is better
to love in pain
than to live without love

No one fears torment
loving with faith
if his thinking
had no cause;
having a reason why
it is better to suffer pain
than to live without love.

Love that has no pain
should not claim for pleasure
Since it is condemned
by its little loving
It is better to lose
pleasure for pain
than to live without love.

(Translation by Rómulo Vega-González)