Frixia  ("Camiña Don Sancho")

 

Polyphonic work: César del Caño

On a traditional monodic romance of Galicia

compiled by Faustino Santalices (1877-1960)

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Polyphonic work a cappella

Voices: 3 vm (SABr)

Pages: 3

Duration Approx .: 02:20

Interpretive difficulty: medium

Language: Old Galician

This edition includes an additional page with full text translated into Spanish and English

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Date of composition: 2016

Revision Date: 2021

Ed .: BuleBule Productions, 2021 · Ref. MC0374c

© César del Caño, 2016 · SGAE Nº 15,604,917

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It is a romance of the so-called frontiersmen, popularized in the 14th century through minstrels, and which constitute poetic documents of the history and intrahistory of two opposing communities (the Christian and the Muslim). It speaks of more or less truthful facts and of people belonging to the common history of León and Galicia.

In it, once again, appears the figure of King Don Sancho linked to the myth of the young Christian captive in the Muslim territory of the iberian Peninsula, and whom he is preparing to release.

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The original melody is built in phrygian mode, one of the medieval musical modes, on which this choral version is also performed, finally bringing it to the point of the so-called gypsy and arabic scales; hence its title.