Fray Matías Ruiz (
fl.
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1665-1702) was a Spanish baroque composer. He was probably the one same Matías Ruiz who was
maestro de capilla
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at
León Cathedral
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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
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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, Ped ...
- ''En la carcel de Belen'' and others.
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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 distinguis ...
in the
Guerra Manuscript and other sources.
* Crowd scene and choruses for Passions. «Turba de la Passion, de la Dominica in Palmis, puesta en musica por Don Matias Ruiz, Maestro de Capilla del Real Convento de las Senoras de la Encarnacion. Ano 1702».
References
Spanish Baroque composers
17th-century Spanish classical composers
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