Bartomeu Càrceres (

Valencian Valencian () or Valencian language () is the official, historical and traditional name used in the Valencian Community (Spain), and unofficially in the Carche, El Carche comarca in Región de Murcia, Murcia (Spain), to refer to the Romance lan ...

pronunciation: əɾtuˈmɛu ˈkaɾsəɾəs, Bartolomé Cárceres in castillian, ( fl. 1546) was a Spanish composer, notably of '' ensaladas.''

Biography

The sole verifiable biographical fact known about him is the record in 1546 of a payment of 72 ducats to him as "carrier of the books" to the capella of the Duke of Calabria, Fernando de Aragón. His salary was half that of the ''

maestro de capilla (, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term ha ...

,'' Juan de Cepa.''Història de la música catalana, valenciana i balear: Diccionari'' ed. Roland de Candé - 2003 "La seva personalitat, encara quasi totalment desconeguda, s'associa al personatge amb aquest nom que apareix en un document de pagament de 1546 com a pautador de los libros de la capella del duc de Calàbria Ferdinand of Aragon," Manuscript M1166-M1967 of the

Biblioteca de Catalunya The Library of Catalonia ( ca, Biblioteca de Catalunya, ) is the Catalan national library, located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The primary mission of the Library of Catalonia is to collect, preserve, and spread Catalan bibliographic producti ...

includes works by both Càrceres and Cepa. For example, the ''

villancico The ''villancico'' (Spanish, ) or vilancete (Portuguese, ) was a common poetic and musical form of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America popular from the late 15th to 18th centuries. Important composers of villancicos were Juan del Encina, Pedro ...

'' ''Soleta y verge'', an adaptation of a secular song from the ''

Cancionero de Upsala The , also known by the titles Cancionero del Duque de Calabria and Cancionero de Venecia, is a volume of mostly anonymous Spanish music printed in Venice in 1556. Its actual title is ''Villancicos de diversos Autores, a dos, y a tres, y a quatro, ...

'' appears in a version for three voices by Càrceres and a variation developed from this for five voices with refrain by Cepa.

Works

Sacred works * ''Missa de desponsatione beatae Mariae'' * ''Elegit sibi Dominus'' * ''Vias tuas, Domine'' * ''Lamentation Lamech - O vos omnes'' Secular works * ''Al jorn del judici'' * ''Soleta yo so / Soleta y verge'' * ''Falalalanlera'' * ''Toca Juan tu rabelejo'' * ''Remedio del primer padre'' * ''Nunca tal cosa se vio'' * ''ensalada'': ''La trulla'' ("Hubbub")

Recordings

* Bartomeu Càrceres - Villancicos & Ensaladas.

Jordi Savall Jordi Savall i Bernadet (; born 1 August 1941) is a Spanish conductor, composer and viol player. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for popularizing the viol family of ...

* Bartomeu Càrceres - Ensaladas.

Capella de Ministrers Capella de Ministrers is an early music group formed in 1987 in Valencia, Spain by Carles Magraner. Valencian music is prominent in its repertoire. Work Capella de Ministrers was formed in 1987 in Valencia by its director, the Valencian musicolog ...

, 2011

References

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