In this definition, Sebastián de Covarrubias, author of the monumental dictionary of the early seventeenth century, gives us the key to the salad: mix of songs, some popular and well knowns, linked by other musical texts that serve as a link, a variety of languages, different lines and meters, rhythms also different, and in the composition, use of different procedures: a tutti, only to duet in counterpoint to the narrative parts, mainly homophone for the songs interspersed throughout the narrative.
The Salad finished with a Latin maxim, that written in the style of a short motet, illustrates what might be called the moral of the story.
On the subject of his writings mostly salads are twinned with the Christmas cycle. Containing stories told with simple language, ponyendo on stage characters from traditional opera, as pastors, and sacred history focused on the events of Christmas: the Virgin, Jesus, Adam ...
The story line of salad "FIRE" is a fire, a symbol of sin that goes with the coming of the Messiah. Ends with a quote in Latin: "Qui biberit ex hac aqua, non sitiet in aeternum" (He who drinks this water shall never thirst), in allusion to the Gospel of John , 4, 13-14: "Jesus answered, Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks the water I give;, Shall never thirst ... "
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