De Murcia: Guitar Music

This album incorporates works that come from one of the most fascinating collections of popular music of the 18th century, a product of the exchange and syncretism of the New World and the Old World, where African-American roots are undoubtedly present.

Composer: Santiago de Murcia
Artists: Miguel Alejandro Núñez Delgado (guitar)

🎵 Purchase or streaming (Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music): https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/DeM...
💎 More Information: https://www.brilliantclassics.com/art...

🎬🎮 These tracks are available for sync licensing in videos, films, tv-shows, games, advertising and more. For more information and to request a license go to: https://www.brilliantclassicslicensin...

In the 16th century, the ‘discovery’ of the Indies finally completed the human universe; it marked the beginning of a meeting between two worlds which, though violent, produced an unprecedented cultural wealth in their merging. However, the numerous historical, musicological and archaeological investigations of the sound cultures from this time have yielded few certainties. We do know, however, that this sound universe was interwoven in the baroque music of various composers, like that of Santiago de Murcia (1673–1739), an iconic figure of the late Spanish Baroque period whose work was the crucible where the sounds of both worlds, the New and the Old, were forged.

The lack of sources relating to Murcia’s life has given rise to much conjecture. We know, however, that he taught guitar to Marie Louise of Savoy, the first wife of Philip V and great-niece of Louis XIV, around 1704. The Queen of Spain’s French tastes may have led Murcia to take an interest in foreign music, as he is considered ‘the first important Spanish guitarist to abandon the native style and adopt French and Italian models.

Santiago de Murcia wrote three notable collections of music, the Resumen de acompañar la parte con la guitarra (1714), Passacalles y obras de guitarra por todos los tonos naturales y acidentales (1732) and the so-called Códice Saldívar No. 4 (c.1732).

The Resumen de acompañar la parte con la guitarra, the only known anthology of pieces by Murcia that was printed, brings together for the first time in Spanish Baroque guitar composition numerous French dances, such as bourrée, courante, gigue, passepied and rigaudon, as well as 26 minuets and three suites in French style. Murcia’s work Pasacalles y Obras de Guitarra Por Todos los Tonos Naturales y Acidentales constitutes an essential compendium of some of the most popular instrumental musical genres of the 17th century, in particular, the passacaglia, a musical form of continuous variation in ¾ time. At first this type of music had a bad reputation due to its popular or ‘street song’3 character, but by the middle of the 18th century the passacaglia was known for its noble, courtly character. Of a totally different character, Códice Saldívar No. 4 contains some of the most representative popular music of the Baroque period, the fruit of the meeting between the New and the Old World.

Tracklist:
00:00:00 Canarios
00:03:01 Pasacalles por la cruz
00:07:50 Cumbees
00:11:45 Jácaras por la E Major
00:15:01 Pasacalles por la A Major – a compasillo
00:18:34 Fandango
00:22:25 La Jotta
00:25:28 Pasacalles por la B Major – a compasillo
00:28:51 Zarambeques o muecas
00:30:16 Españoletas
00:32:45 Pasacalles por la C Major – a clarinados
00:37:02 Tarantellas
00:40:37 Folías gallegas
00:44:14 Giga after Corellio
00:47:12 Folías italianas
00:53:49 Gaitas
00:57:03 Marionas por la B Major

👉 Social media links:
Instagram: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Ins...
Facebook: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Fac...
TikTok: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Tik...
Spotify: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Spo...

Thank you for watching this video by Brilliant Classics, we hope you enjoyed it! Don’t forget to share it and subscribe to our YouTube channel. And visit our channel for other pieces by some of the greatest composers. We upload daily with complete albums and compilations with the best classical music. https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/You...

#Guitar #Music #Latin #ClassicalMusic #BrilliantClassics #deMurcia #Composer #guitarist #spanish #mexico