Ensalada (music)


The ensalada is a genre of polyphonic secular music mixing languages and dialects and nonsensical quodlibets.
The term is known mainly through a publication, Las Ensaladas de Flecha Prague, by Mateo Flecha the Younger, that contains six long four-part vocal compositions by his uncle Mateo Flecha. Each of these ensaladas is divided into several sections, ranging from seven to twelve. The music is for four voices.
Apart from the ensaladas by Mateo Flecha, there are also two examples by Mateo Flecha the younger, two by Pere Alberch Vila, several by Bartolomé Cárceres, one by the unknown F. Chacón and several anonymous sources. There is also an instrumental ensalada for organ by Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia.

Works

Prague 1581
  1. El Fuego – Flecha
  2. La Bomba – Flecha
  3. La Negrina – Flecha
  4. La Guerra – Flecha
  5. El Bon Jorn – Vila
  6. La Justa – Flecha
  7. La Viuda – Flecha
  8. La Feria – Flecha
  9. Las Cañas – Flecha
  10. La Trulla - Càrceres
  11. La Lucha – Vila
  12. Los Chistes – Flecha
  13. Las Cañas II – Flecha
  14. El Molino – Chacón
Supplement
  1. El Jubilate – Flecha
  2. La Caza – Flecha
  3. El Toro – Flecha
  4. La Negrina – Cárceres
  5. Las Cañas III – Brudieu
Francisco de Peñalosa
  1. Por las sierras de Madrid, for 6 voices.
  2. Tú que vienes de camino, for 2 voices.
Garcimuñóz
  1. Una montaña pasando, for 4 voices
Anon.