Alonso Mudarra was a lutenist and composer active in Seville in the middle of the sixteenth century. The Tres Libros de Música from which the pieces heard on this disc are extracted come from the early years of music publishing in Spain, and they mix original compositions by Mudarra with vihuela intabulations of works by other composers. Both vocal and instrumental, the pieces recorded here offer a delightful variety; Mudarra seems to have tried simply to offer a cross-section or greatest hits of the musical world at the ...
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Alonso Mudarra was a lutenist and composer active in Seville in the middle of the sixteenth century. The Tres Libros de Música from which the pieces heard on this disc are extracted come from the early years of music publishing in Spain, and they mix original compositions by Mudarra with vihuela intabulations of works by other composers. Both vocal and instrumental, the pieces recorded here offer a delightful variety; Mudarra seems to have tried simply to offer a cross-section or greatest hits of the musical world at the time in his publication. There are a few sacred pieces; Triste estava el rey David, track 5, is a setting of the biblical text recounting the sorrow of King David upon learning of the death of his son Absalon. This tragic work (curiously designated as a "romance," which seems here to mean a song that tells a story) rubs shoulders with examples of the reliably sexy villancico -- track 9, Gentil Cavallero, is an especially pungent one, with its image of the knight who picks lemons in the...
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