Spanish music

Ancient Music Audio Program to the letter of RNE, presented by Sergio Pagán:

Today we will devote our time entirely to Spanish music of the Renaissance. And we are going to focus on three main sources that reflect the music that was played in the Spanish courts in times of the Catholic Monarchs and in later decades.

Just as in the Middle Ages must speak of codices or manuscripts, in the Renaissance must speak of songbooks, as the musical sources that this time we have reached are nothing more than collections of polyphonic songs.

Faced with the Franco-Flemish song, the Spanish song keeps its extreme simplicity. Each of the voices has an extremely singable style, but while writing the song is vertical.

Only the Protestant coral has a similar structure in the art of counterpoint, stripped of all artifice: Few imitations, almost total absence of canons, inversions, augmentations or retrograde movements; and with this extraordinary mobility of each voice within the set.The Spanish song uses forms and Popular Songs,some of which are still alive in the Spanish folklore.