¡Ay, ay, ay, ay! ¡qué Fuertes penas!—Planctus on the death of Afonso, prince of Portugal (†1491)

Authors

  • Maricarmen Gómez

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.57885/rpmns.143

Abstract

The planctus was a genre frequently cultivated in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. However there are few examples where the text is in Spanish. The earliest dated is ¡Ay, ay, ay, ay! ¡Qué fuertes penas! composed on the death of Afonso, Prince of Portugal, in 1491. The author analyses this planctus comparing it with other poetical and musico-poetical works of the same type produced in the Iberian Peninsula during the decades that followed.

Author Biography

Maricarmen Gómez

MARICARMEN GÓMEZ is professor of Musicology at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona since 1985. After her doctorate at the Universitat de Barcelona (1977), she studied at the Georgia-August-Universitat in Göttingen (1981-1983). She is Director-at-­Large of the International Musicological Society (1987-1996), and was visiting professor at Princeton University (1989­ 1990) and North Texas University (1996). She has published several books and articles on Spanish and French music of the 14th-16th centuries.

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Published

2014-12-20

How to Cite

Gómez, M. (2014). ¡Ay, ay, ay, ay! ¡qué Fuertes penas!—Planctus on the death of Afonso, prince of Portugal (†1491). Portuguese Journal of Musicology, 4, 7–16. https://doi.org/10.57885/rpmns.143

Issue

Vol 4/5 (1994-1995)

Section

Articles (peer-reviewed)