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Las Mañanitas: alto part

The alto part of Las Mañanitas in G, from B3 to B4. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Sings the words a third or a sixth under the tune more than four fifths of the time, mostly a third, most often on G, within one octave, from its low B, only on the opening "Estas" and the start of "Amapolita", up to its top B in every line: in verse 1 on the middle of "cantaba" and of "cantamos" and the start of "David," and "muchachas", in verse 2 on the start of "llanos" and "Tepic,", the end of "estás" and the middle of "Enamórate", and in each refrain on the start of the first "Despierta,", the middle of the second, the start of "Mira" and "cantan,", the end of "amaneció," and the "ya" of "La luna ya".

Range
B3 to B4
Key
G
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About Las Mañanitas

Words: traditional Mexican

Tune: traditional Mexican

Las Mañanitas is the Mexican dawn serenade: "Despierta, mi bien, despierta", wake up, my dear, wake up. In his memoirs of 1904 Antonio García Cubas tells how, outside a house, las mañanitas were sung as day came near, and soon the windows opened; his book prints the tune with our second verse and the start of our refrain, their earliest known printing. Writing of the Guadalupe fiesta in 1929, Anita Brenner called the mañanitas the "prerogative of the Mother, and prerogative, too, of sweethearts and budding maidens on birthday mornings." Our tune is read from Albert Friedenthal's printing of 1913, moved from his A major to G, and our words from El laúd hispano-americano (Los Angeles, 1921), the earliest printing of our first verse that we have found. The four parts are our own: two verses, each followed by the refrain, in Spanish, for 2 to 4 singers.

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