A Humanistic Reading of Gaspar Sanz "Instruccion de música sobre la guitarra Española"
On December 7,1546, the first published piece of music for the guitar, a fantasia composed by Spaniard Alonso Mudarra (ca. 1510-1580), was taken to the press in Seville.1 With Mudarra’s work, instrumental music took a step toward bridging the divide between the sacred and the profane. Latin Mass excerpts by Franco-Flemish master Josquin des Prez and other sacred works by great polyphonists were arranged and printed, among various popular genres, in tablature for organ, harp, vihuela, and most importantly, the guitar. One must note that many consider the guitar to have been an instrument of the common classes. Even the vihuela was suspect for clerics overseeing the involvement of instrumentalists in the Catholic Church. An instrument for which many secular songs were composed, the vihuela was too closely identified with “dancing and other unholy...
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