Juan de Navas (ca. 1650–1719) was a Spanish baroque composer and harpist. As court harpist to

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 o ...

he was sought as approver of Torres y Martínez Bravo's treatise on thoroughbass.

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villancicos 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 ...

'' - ''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 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 distinguish ...

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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 Co ...

'' and other sources. Recordings: *''Ay, divino amor'' - on ''Cantadas de pasión''

Maria Luz Álvarez Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...

, Accentus Austria, Thomas Wimmer. Arcana 2005.

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Spanish Baroque composers 1650s births 1719 deaths Spanish male classical composers 18th-century classical composers 18th-century male musicians {{Spain-composer-stub