Diego Ortiz - Recercada No. 1 sobre el passamezzo antiguo (Spanish Renaissance Music)

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Diego Ortiz (ca. 1510~1570)

Recercada Nº 1 sobre el passamezzo antiguo


Flanders Recorder Quartet

Bart Spanhove (renaissance recorder)
Han Tol (renaissance recorder)
Joris van Goethem (renaissance recorder)
Philippe Malfeyt (renaissance lute)
Ewald Demeyere (renaissance harpsichord)
Chris Joris (percussion)


Diego Ortiz (Toledo, c.1510 Naples, c.1570) was a Spanish composer and musicologist, in service to the Spanish viceroy in Naples (Pedro de Urries) and later to Philip II of Spain. Ortiz published influential treatises on both instrumental and vocal performance.

Very little is known about his life. He is believed to have been born in Toledo and died in Naples. In 1553 Ortiz was living in the viceroyalty of Naples. Five years later, the third duke of Alba, Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, appointed him maestro di capella. In 1565 Ortiz still held the post under the Viceroy Pedro Afán de Ribera, duke of Alcalá.

Diego Ortiz published two music books: Trattado de Glosas in 1553 and Musices liber primus in 1565. The Trattado de Glosas is considered a masterpiece of literature for the viola da gamba. The work was published on December 10, 1553, in Rome under the Spanish title Trattado de glossas sobre clausulas y otros generos de punctos en la musica de violones nuevamente puestos en luz. Its Italian title is Glose sopra le cadenze et altre sorte de punti in la musica del violone.

Ortiz published a collection of polyphonic religious music in 1565 in Venice. Musices liber primus hymnos, Magnificas, Salves, motecta, psalmos includes 69 compositions for 4 to 7 voices, based on plainchant works.

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  • Absolutely magnificent.

  • This Spanish Renaissance music is absolutely beautiful. I wonder why it isn't better known.

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  • @d3sired not all though. Spain was still a monarchy back then and most of the colonies revolted because their oaths of fealty was to our king not fucking napoleon or his brother. The idea of nationalism was just born (hence causing french rev) so it didn't come to spain yet. So a part of americas are innocent imo. But then again, not all.

  • @vwlover94 We didn't let them win, they won because of Napoleon already at war with Spain, thus weakening our forces so the whole continent of America took advantage of that, including Spaniards since Napoleon's brother was ruling and would have more lands if Spain still possessed the continent of America.

  • Y siempre ay algien sordo. :(  Que marabilloso!

  • Beautiful, beautiful music. 

  • Recercada est super la musique de la renaissance pour le

    classique c'est suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuperrrrrr­rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr­rrrrr

  • @vwlover94 Yeah man the fact still pissing me off. We had it from california to tierra del fuego and now almost nothing. But yea my point was, it is even more annoying that half of the people that know a part of spanish culture thinks its "mexican" instead for some reason.

  • @Reatbuster ahahaha, it could be BUT!!! HOWEVER Newspain (mexico today) had this exact music until the independence kick in, then it was shit afterwards,stupid mexico, i cant believe spaniards let them win, it was the indigenoues population that overcame the spanish in the end, :( how sad right? but 36% of mexicans are full blooded european, and the rest is mix, and then indigenous ;)

  • @themailman43 cauze of mecksickans

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