Arte de Tanger: Gonzalo de Baena's New Keyboard Works 1540;
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Arte de Tanger: Gonzalo de Baena's New Keyboard Works 1540;
Bruno Forst (organ)
[ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 23 February 2018
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In 1992 a (misfiled) manuscript was discovered in the Madrid Palacio Real Library: the Arte Novamente Inventada pera aprender a tager (Newly devised method for learning to play), which proved to be the first book of keyboard music to be printed in the Iberian Peninsula, published in 1540. The author, Gonzalo de Baena, was a Castillian musician in the service of the King of Portugal.
The book is a method designed to teach amateurs without theoretical knowledge to play a keyboard instrument through the use of a simple tablature that represents the notes by letters. The pieces consist primarily of transcriptions of vocal works, but also purely instrumental music is included. It is a valuable historical document, faithfully depicting the cultural and musical environment of early 16‐th century Iberia. Composers included are Ockeghem, Obrecht, Desprez, Compère, Brunel, Agricola, Gascogne.
Organist and musicologist Bruno Forst has painstakingly deciphered and prepared the manuscript, and performs it complete on this new recording, adding suitable embellishments in the 16th century style: clearly a labour of love, bringing to life this musical treasure after 472
years!
Tracks:
CD1 61'21
Cristóbal de Morales c.1500-1550
1 In diebus illis 3'48
Juan de Urreda c.1430-c.1482
2 Two verses of a Magnificat 3'30
João de Badajoz c.1460-after 1521
3 Pange lingua 1'48
Juan Anchieta c.1462-1523
4 Congratulamini mihi omnes 3'01
Anonymous
5 Kyrie eleison de Nuestra Señora 3'01
Francisco de Peñalosa c.1470-1528
6 Unica est columba mea 2'24
7 Kyrie eleison 4º tono 1'28
8 Kyrie eleison 8º tono 1'18
Anonymous
9 Conditor alme siderum 2'19
Pedro de Escobar c.1465-c.1535
10 Clamabat autem mulier cananea 3'48
11 [No title] 0'46
12 Patrem omnipotentem 2'21
Anonymous
13 Jesu nostra redemptio 2'06
Juan García de Basurto c.1480-1547
14 Deposuit potentes 1'25
Gonzalo de Baena c.1480-after 1540
15 Si dedero 1'24
16 Ave maris stella 1'24
Antonio de Baena †after 1562
17 Agnus Dei (Mass Fa-re-mi-re) 4'51
18 Kyrie eleison 1'21
19 Sanctus (Mass Sol-la-la-fa-re) 7'18
20 Pleni sunt 1'58
21 Kyrie eleison 6º tono 5'36
22 Sanctus (canon) 2'32
Total time 61'21
CD2
Johannes Ockeghem c.1410-1497
1 Domine deus 1'36
Loyset Compère c.1450-1518
2 1º tono 1'01
3 Credo 5'17
4 Et iterum venturus est cum gloria 0'52
Josquin Desprez c.1440-1521
5 Benedictus 1'55
6 Pleni sunt 1'11
7 Agnus Dei 3'17
Jakob Obrecht c.1450-1505
8 Benedictus 0'54
Johannes Ockeghem
9 Sanctus 3'32
Josquin Desprez
10 Benedictus (Mass Fortuna desperata) 1'48
11 Pleni sunt (Mass 'L'Homme armé' super voces musicales) 2'23
Jakob Obrecht
12 Si sumpsero penas meas 4'04
Josquin Desprez
13 In pace, in idipsum dormiam 3'32
Jakob Obrecht after Alexander Agricola c.1446-1506
14 Si dedero 2'35
Josquin Desprez
15 Gloria 4'32
16 Agnus Dei (Mass Sine nomine) 2'50
17 Sanctus (Mass La-sol-fa-re-mi) 5'04
18 Patrem omipotentem 4'50
Antoine de Févin c.1470-c.1511
19 Agnus Dei 2'24
Antoine Brumel c.1460-c.1520
20 Mater patris 2'38
Matthieu Gascogne †after 1516
21 Agnus Dei (Mass Nigra sum) 3'35
Firmin Caron †after 1475
22 Hélas que pourra devenir 3'29
Alexander Agricola
23 Motete del ciego 9'08
Total time 73'55
