Juan Arañés (died c. 1649) was a Spanish baroque composer. His tonos and

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Biography

Arañés was born in

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, at an unknown date. After studies in

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, he was ''

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'' at the Spanish embassy in

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, where in 1624 he published his ''Libro Segundo de tonos y villancicos''. The first book is lost. The ''Libro Segundo'' collection contains 12 pieces of 1, 2, and 3 voices, '' tonos humanos'' and ''

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, Pedr ...

,'' the final being a vocal

chaconne A chaconne (; ; es, chacona, links=no; it, ciaccona, links=no, ; earlier English: ''chacony'') is a type of musical composition often used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression, often involving a fairly short repe ...

for 4 voices, ''A la vida bona'' which features in the works of

Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best know ...

. The collection is notable for its guitar accompaniment in Italian notation. He died in or after 1649.

Works, editions and recordings

*''A la vida bona'' for 4 voices - on (i) ''Musica en el Quijote y otras obras de Miguel de Cervantes'', Orphénica Lyra (Glossa, 2005) and (ii) ''Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha: Romances y Músicas'' dir.

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 ...

, Hesperion XXI, (Alia Vox, 2006). Nuevo Sarao performed his works at the Festival de Música Antiga dels Pirineus in 2011 and recorded his complete works.Racio Nacional de España. Festival de música antigua de los Pirineos. Concierto celebrado en la Seu d'Urgell, 9 septiembre 2011 Intérpretes: Nuevo Sarao. Dir: Rafael Bonavita
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aranes, Juan Spanish Baroque composers 16th-century births 1649 deaths Spanish male classical composers Year of birth unknown 17th-century classical composers 17th-century male musicians