Huyd, huyd

Francisco Guerrero’s Huyd, huyd is a secular Spanish madrigal for SATB voices. The music opens with energetic imitative entries, quickly establishing a lively and playful character. The text, which warns against the blindness of love, is set with rapid exchanges and homophonic passages that underscore its urgent message. Guerrero uses the interplay of voices to convey the text’s warning: flee, flee, blind lovers, from a blind love. The composer illustrates how this love can turn joy to sorrow and pleasure to pain, urging listeners to escape its grasp before it binds them irreversibly and leads to sighs, sorrow, tears, anguish, and death.