In renaissance and late medieval Spain, according to Frenk, the music was better than the words. Musicians were middle class professionals paid a salary, the text could be any old text, something anonymous written by an aristocratic courtier.
These are complex questions, like teasing out the differences between learned and popular lyrics of the time, and everything in between. The cultured songbooks were once place where folksongs were preserved, because they became fashionable.
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In the cultured poetry of the time, there is not imagery, no nature. It's just conceptual play. That is the main reason why it falls so flat.
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