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Los Tres Libros de Música – the first significant collections of solo songs, and instrumental music – reflects many of the diverse literary and musical currents extant in the Sevilla of the 1540’s. Alonso Mudarra (c.1510-1580) includes some sacred pieces, but the main part is secular. His texts are drawn from many sources, including the bible, from Petrarch, from Vergil, from the avantgarde of Spanish poets (Boscàn and Garcilaso), and from the popular romance tradition. Musically, we find an equally wide-ranging variety of elements: Firstly, of course, the polyphony of Flanders (muchloved by the Emperor, Charles the Fifth), perhaps in a fresher and more vivacious mood than in the church music of the period. Secondly, the “new” Italian style of homophonic or chordal composition, which was gaining popularity in all great centres of music. Thirdly, the use of popular melodies, not disguised, but rather adorned with a beautiful setting. The soprano Raquel Andueza has appeared all over Europe and concertizes regularly with various renowned ensembles, among them El Concierto Español and Al Ayre Español. Private Musicke, founded in 1998, takes different guises: sometimes it is a consort of viols, sometimes it is a consort of plucked instruments – principally guitars and lutes - and sometimes it is a combination of both as on the present recording.
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Raquel Andueza, soprano
Private Musicke |
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Alonso Mudarra (c.1510-1580):
Tres Libros de Musica en cifra para vihuela (Sevilla 1546)
Works by Luis de Narváez, Luis de Milán, Esteban Daca, Diego Ortiz, Antonio de Cabezón et al.
1 CD - DDD |
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Alonso Mudarra |
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