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Guerra Manuscript
The Guerra Manuscript is an important musical manuscript copied by the nobleman and scribe José Miguel de Guerra y Villegas for the capilla real of Charles II of Spain around 1680. The manuscript, Ms 265 at the Royal University of Santiago de Compostela, was only fully analysed edited and published in 1998. It contains 100 tonos humanos for soprano and continuo.ed. Ignacio Arellano ''Autos sacramentales completos de Calderón'' 2003 p91 "Recientemente se ha producido el descubrimiento de un tercer manuscrito que contiene fragmentos musicales para comedias, denominado «Manuscrito Guerra». En él se recogen cien tonos humanos para soprano y continuo,... " Many of the songs exist in other sources, such as excerpts from zarzuelas, and the composers can be identified. Composers include the senior theatre composer and master of the capilla real Juan Hidalgo, José Marín, Cristóbal Galán, Juan del Vado, Matías Ruiz, and the then young harpist Juan de Navas Juan de Navas (ca. 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapel Royal
The Chapel Royal is an establishment in the Royal Household serving the spiritual needs of the sovereign and the British Royal Family. Historically it was a body of priests and singers that travelled with the monarch. The term is now also applied to the chapels within royal palaces, most notably at Hampton Court and St James's Palace, and other chapels within the Commonwealth designated as such by the monarch. Within the Church of England, some of these royal chapels may also be referred to as Royal Peculiars, an ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the monarch. The Dean of His Majesty's Chapels Royal is a royal household office that in modern times is usually held by the Bishop of London. The Chapel Royal's most public role is to perform choir, choral liturgical music, liturgical service. It has played a significant role in the musical life of the nation, with composers such as Thomas Tallis, Tallis, William Byrd, Byrd, John Bull (composer), Bull, Orlando Gibbons, Gibbons and Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles II Of Spain
Charles II of Spain (''Spanish: Carlos II,'' 6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700), known as the Bewitched (''Spanish: El Hechizado''), was the last Habsburg ruler of the Spanish Empire. Best remembered for his physical disabilities and the War of the Spanish Succession that followed his death, Charles's reign has traditionally been viewed as one of managed decline. However, many of the issues Spain faced in this period were inherited from his predecessors and some recent historians have suggested a more balanced perspective. For reasons that are still debated, Charles experienced extended periods of ill health throughout his life and from the moment he became king at the age of three in 1665, the succession was a prominent consideration in European politics. Historian John Langdon-Davies summarised his life as follows: "Of no man is it more true to say that in his beginning was his end; from the day of his birth, they were waiting for his death". Despite this, his successors inhe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal University Of Santiago De Compostela
Royal may refer to: People * Royal (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name * A member of a royal family Places United States * Royal, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Royal, Illinois, a village * Royal, Iowa, a city * Royal, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Royal, Nebraska, a village * Royal, Franklin County, North Carolina, an unincorporated area * Royal, Utah, a ghost town * Royal, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Royal Gorge, on the Arkansas River in Colorado * Royal Township (other) Elsewhere * Mount Royal, a hill in Montreal, Canada * Royal Canal, Dublin, Ireland * Royal National Park, New South Wales, Australia Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Royal'' (Jesse Royal album), a 2021 reggae album * ''The Royal'', a British medical drama television series * ''The Royal Magazine'', a monthly British literary magazine published between 1898 and 1939 * ''Royal'' (Indian magazine), a men's lifestyle bimonthly * Royal Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonos Humanos
The tono humano (secular song) was one of the main genres of 17th Century Spanish and Portuguese music. :The term ''tonadas'' is also used for ''tonos humanos'' in 17th Century musical literature but the 17th Century ''tonada'' is to be distinguished from the modern folk tonada song in Chile or for guitar band in Argentina. In the early 17th Century the main vernacular forms for Spanish and Portuguese composers were the villancico, usually a Christmas song, and the solo tono; tono humano if secular, tono divino if sacred. The cantata form had not yet been introduced from Italy. At this point tonos were generally strophic songs (coplas) with a refrain (estribillo). However by the end of the 17th century some tonos had begun to include recitative and aria sections, as the cantada, Spanish form of the cantata became known around 1700. The tono humano and tono divino could also have 2, 3 or 4 voices. Nearly all tonos humanos and semi-sacred villancicos were preserved only in manuscrip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basso Continuo
Basso continuo parts, almost universal in the Baroque era (1600–1750), provided the harmonic structure of the music by supplying a bassline and a chord progression. The phrase is often shortened to continuo, and the instrumentalists playing the continuo part are called the ''continuo group''. Forces The composition of the continuo group is often left to the discretion of the performers (or, for a large performance, the conductor), and practice varied enormously within the Baroque period. At least one instrument capable of playing chords must be included, such as a harpsichord, organ, lute, theorbo, guitar, regal, or harp. In addition, any number of instruments that play in the bass register may be included, such as cello, double bass, bass viol, or bassoon. In modern performances of chamber works, the most common combination is harpsichord and cello for instrumental works and secular vocal works, such as operas, and organ and cello for sacred music. A double bass may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zarzuela
() is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular songs, as well as dance. The etymology of the name is uncertain, but some propose it may derive from the name of a royal hunting lodge, the Palace of Zarzuela, near Madrid, where that type of entertainment was allegedly first presented to the court. The palace in turn was named after the brambles () that grew there. There are two main forms of ''zarzuela'': Baroque ''zarzuela'' (c. 1630–1750), the earliest style, and Romantic ''zarzuela'' (c. 1850–1950). Romantic zarzuelas can be further divided into two main subgenres, ''género grande'' and ''género chico'', although other sub-divisions exist. ''Zarzuela'' spread to the Spanish dominions, and many Spanish-speaking countries – notably Cuba – developed their own traditions. ''Zarzuela'' is also a strong tradition in the Philippines, where it is also referred to in certain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Hidalgo De Polanco
Juan Hidalgo de Polanco (28 September 1614 – 31 March 1685) was a Spanish composer and harpist who became the most influential composer of his time in the Hispanic world writing the music for the first two operas created in Spanish. He is considered by many to be the father of Spanish opera and of the zarzuela. Hidalgo was born and died in Madrid. In either 1630 or 1631 he became a harpist at the Spanish royal chapel where he was responsible for the accompaniment of both sacred and secular music and also played for the King of Spain, King Philip IV. Around 1645 he began to serve as leader of the court's chamber musicians and chief composer of ''villancicos'', chamber songs, and music for the theatre. He personifies the origins of Spanish opera with the work '' Celos aun del aire matan'' by the illustrious playwright Calderon de la Barca, based on the story of Cephalus and Procris told in Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'', released on 5 December 1660 to celebrate the third birthday ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Marín (composer)
José Marín (ca. 16191699) was a Spanish Baroque harpist, guitarist and composer noted for his secular songs, ''tonos humanos.'' In 1644 he entered the Royal Convent of La Encarnación in Madrid as a tenor. He was a priest and cantor of the ''capilla real'' under Felipe IV and Carlos II. His career was marked by scandals and murder. He was sentenced to prison but escaped to regain respectability.Chase G. ''The Music of Spain'' 1959 Page 103 Works Websitehttp://www.JoseMarin.comSongs *''Corazon que en prision'' possibly refers to his own imprisonment. Theatre music *music for zarzuelas by the dramatist Juan Bautista Diamante. Selected discographyJosé Marin, "Tonos humanos" Montserrat Figueras, Arianna Savall, Rolf Lislevand Rolf Lislevand (30 December 1961 in Oslo, Norway), is a Norwegian performer of Early music specialising on lute, vihuela, baroque guitar and theorbo. Biography From 1980 to 1984, Lislevand studied classical guitar at the Norwegian Academy of Mu ..., et al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristóbal Galán
Cristóbal Galán (c. 1630 – 24 September 1684) was a Spanish Baroque composer. The first record of Galán is that in 1651 he was rejected as ''maestro de capilla'' in Sigüenza because he was married. From 1653 he was a singer and organist, then later ''maestro de capilla'' in Cagliari, Sardinia; then from 1656 to 1659 in Morella, Castellon. From 1660 to 1663 he worked in Madrid, in an unknown position. From 1664 to 1667 he was ''maestro de capilla'' at Segovia Cathedral, then moving to the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales, Madrid, where in 1680, five years after the death of Carlos Patiño, he became director of the ''capilla real.'' He died in Madrid. In letters written in Madrid in 1675 and 1681 to Miguel de Irízar, Galán is cited as Madrid's principal composer of sacred music, since Juan Hidalgo de Polanco was only interested in writing ''tonos humanos.'' A generation later his style was still respected by Francisco Valls. Works As with other Spanish Baroque composer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Del Vado
Juan del Vado y Gomez (1625–1691) was a Spanish composer, organist and violinist. He is noted for the enigmatic canons, symbolic musical puzzles, dedicated to his king Charles II of Spain. He came from a family of violinists. His father was a player of violin, lute and shawm in the of Madrid. Works, editions and recordings * Keyboard works - including four keyboard pieces preserved in P.Pm Ms 1577 Loe. * Enigmatic canonsRobledo L. "The Enigmatic Canons of Juan del Vado (c. 1625-1691)," translated by Gerardo Arriaga, Early Music 15 (1987), p514-19. * tonos humanos in the Guerra Manuscript The Guerra Manuscript is an important musical manuscript copied by the nobleman and scribe José Miguel de Guerra y Villegas for the capilla real of Charles II of Spain around 1680. The manuscript, Ms 265 at the Royal University of Santiago de Co ... and other sources. * References 1625 births 1691 deaths 17th-century classical composers Spanish composers Spanish male composers 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matías Ruiz (composer)
Fray Matías Ruiz ( fl. 1665-1702) was a Spanish baroque composer. He was probably the one same Matías Ruiz who was maestro de capilla at León Cathedral in 1665, and then at the Encarnación 1676-1678, and who, still referred to as maestro at the Convent of the Incarnation, Madrid though he no longer could have been, published music for Easter in 1702.Paul R. Laird ''Towards a history of the Spanish villancico'' 1997 "There is some confusion as to the identity of Matias Ruiz. A textual concordance between a ''pliego suelto'' from Encarnación in 1677 and the music manuscript of "En la carcel de Belen" at the Escorial make it likely that this is the Matias Ruiz who was chapelmaster at Encarnación between 1676 and 1678" Works, editions and recordings * villancicos - ''En la carcel de Belen'' and others. * tonos humanos in the Guerra Manuscript The Guerra Manuscript is an important musical manuscript copied by the nobleman and scribe José Miguel de Guerra y Villegas for the capi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan De Navas
Juan de Navas (ca. 1650–1719) was a Spanish baroque composer and harpist. As court harpist to Charles II of Spain he was sought as approver of José de Torres, Torres y Martínez Bravo's treatise on thoroughbass. Works, editions and recordings *''villancicos'' - ''Angelicas escuadras'' and others.Tess Knighton, Álvaro Torrente ''Devotional music in the Iberian world, 1450-1800: the villancico'' 2007 p.xv figure: Refrain of the villancico Angelicas escuadras by Juan de Navas, bars 1-4 (EV, 51/26) 193 7.2 "Rhythmic relationship between music and text in the previous passage of the refrain of the villancico Angelicas escuadras by Juan de Navas" *''tonos humanos'' in the ''Guerra Manuscript'' and other sources. Recordings: *''Ay, divino amor'' - on ''Cantadas de pasión'' Maria Luz Álvarez, Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer. Arcana 2005. References Spanish Baroque composers 1650s births 1719 deaths Spanish male classical composers 18th-century classical composers 18th-ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
