A HUMANISTIC READING OF GASPAR SANZ’S

INSTRVCCIONDE MVSICA SOBRE LA GVITARRA ESPAnOLA

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Chapter Six:
Figured-Bass Rules One through Six

In The Early Baroque Era: From the Late Sixteenth Century to the 1660s (1994),

both Curtis Price and Louise Stein recognize the comparatively early uptake of figured

bass in Spain. Both Price and Stein point to the quintessentially Spanish tradition of solo

song with vihuela or guitar accompaniment.375The familiar custom of pairing a vocalist

with a lute-family instrument seems to have acted as a channel through which the

innovative practice of figured bass was able to assert itself in Spain, where, in general,

foreign advances in music were otherwise slow to put down roots.376At the courts and

academies of northern Italy, figured bass in published form was first seen in the works of

Jacopo Peri (1561-1633), Giulio Caccini (1551-1618), and Emilio de’ Cavalieri (ca.

1550-1602). Composer Lodovico da Viadana (ca. 1560-1627) was also central to the

promulgation of the new mode of accompaniment 377 Scholarly opinion generally reaches

the consensus that the new Italian style of accompanying made its way to Spain in the

early-seventeenth century.

However, one finds vestiges of practices that, while perhaps not universally

accepted as figured bass per se, suggest the Spanish had a significant interest in systems

of musical shorthand that would allow for improvised accompaniment over a notated bass

375. Curtis Price, “Music, Style and Society,” in The Early Baroque, 10.
376. Stein, “Spain,” in The Early Baroque, 330.
377. Marla Hammel, ‘The Figured-Bass Accompaniment in Bach’s Time: A Brief
Summary of Its Development and an Examination of Its Use, Together with a Sample
Realization, Part I,” Bach 8, no. 3 (1977): 27, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41640029.
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line. Marla Hammel reports on the Spanish musician Diego Ortiz (ca. 1510-ca. 1570),

author of the 1553 work Tratado de glosas sopra clausulas y otros generos de puntos en

la musica de violones (Treatise on the Ornamentation of Cadences and Other Kinds of

Notes in the Music for the Contrabass-Viol): “One of the suggestions which Ortiz gives

to the violone player . . . is that he might play an ornate melody while the cembalo

[harpsichord] is providing an accompaniment over a given bass, consisting of chords and

counterpoints suitable to the melody.”378

Ortiz worked under Spanish nobility stationed in Naples, where Spain had exerted

viceregal authority since 1504.379Just as the harpsichord was generally excluded from the

normal Spanish continuo ensemble of organ, harp, and vihuela (or guitar), so could it

have been in Neapolitan practice? Seeing as Spain was the ruling power, one is not

surprised to find that archetypically Spanish plucked strings figured prominently in the

musical life of Naples and nearby Rome. More so in southern Italy than in the north, the

guitar proves to be a logical antecedent to the establishment of figured bass, a learned

practice indebted to popular, auro-oral customs.

James Tyler stresses the importance of the influence of south-Italian music on the

Florentine Camerata, the famed academic circle within which the study of Greco-Roman

music shaped monody, the new and immeasurably pivotal compositional technique that

378. Hammel, ‘The Figured-Bass Accompaniment,” 27, brackets and ellipsis

mine.
379. Encyclopcedia Britannica Online, s.v. “Kingdom of Naples,”
http://www.britannica.com/place/Kingdom-of-Naples.
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was to be so crucial to opera. Figured bass is definitive of the monodic style, as well as

being tied to the four- and five-course guitars of southern Italy, particularly the Spanish

territory of Naples. Tyler summarizes,

Recent ground-breaking research [These words of Tyler’s were published in

2002] by Howard Mayer Brown and, especially, John Walter Hill has
demonstrated the singular importance of south-Italian singing and accompanying
practices, including the flexible sprezzatura (an artistic, seemingly nonchalant use
of rubato and other dramatic devices to express the emotional content of song
texts); the incorporation of recitational style and improvised, florid
ornamentation; and the style of accompaniment, wherein simple harmonies
derived from the bass line were played on a chordal instrument, often by the
singer. Hill has noted also that many of the performers and composers employed
at the northern courts, who played leading roles in the development of monody,
were either Roman, Neapolitan, or trained by south Italians.380

Caccini and Cavalieri are counted among these performers and composers

employed in the north. The historical motif of the guitar as an instrument suitable for self­

accompaniment crops up repeatedly in the operatic milieu. It is an accurate reissue of

ancient musico-mythological imagery. Tyler relates the Renaissance practice to a more

modem context:

Apparently, it was common practice in sixteenth-century Rome and Naples to

sing poetry to the accompaniment of standard recitational formulas. Sometimes
these formulas were composed for a specific occasion, using a simple harmony
and a neutral, almost chant-like melodic line; but more often than not a stock
harmonic ground, such as the Romanesca, Tenor di Napoli, Ruggiero, or
Passamezzo antico, played on a lute, cittern, or, above all, a guitar, was used to
support the text. This style of singing a text to a chord pattern (not necessarily
with a high degree of melodic profile) may be likened somewhat to a mid­

380. Tyler and Sparks, “The Guitar and Its Music,” 37, brackets mine.
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twentieth-century coffeehouse poet or folk-club vocalist, intoning or singing to a

standard blues chord progression. Of course, in the Renaissance the practice was
not confined to popular culture; indeed, the most celebrated court singers
cultivated it to the level of high art.381

To emphasize the humanistic, Tyler’s digression into modernity becomes

increasingly captivating when one contemplates the sociopolitical underpinning of

twentieth-century popular song. Strains of dissidence in twentieth- and twenty-first-

century music for voice with guitar-based accompaniment highlight moral philosophy

within the genre. In this light one may view Renaissance and modem popular music

alike, representatives of, as Ayn Rand writes, “art as a social document.”382

Returning to the Renaissance period, Tyler notes that the 1520s saw the spread of

south-Italian music for voice and lute-family instruments across Italy and into other parts

of Europe.383 This musical style was not without precedent in Naples, where the courts

and academies of the late 1400s were graced by the improvisations of dall’Aquila and II

Chariteo. Hence, the history of figured bass, like that of a humanistically inspired

conception of the guitar on a more general level, finds common ground with the history

of Spanish humanism typified by the work of DiCamillo; far from purely Italian, the

formation of figured bass owes much to Spanish culture.

The body of written works by Spanish music theorists does little to confirm the

presence of figured-bass practice during the time between the works of Mudarra and

381. Tyler and Sparks, “The Guitar and Its Music,” 38.
382. Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943), 69.
383. Tyler and Sparks, “The Guitar and Its Music” 38.
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Sanz. Howell finds that the period in question furnishes but one hasty treatment of

figured bass, a single page in Elporque de la musica by Lorente.384Yet, looking to the

method book of Amat, one encounters in print a viable comparison to the pre-Florentine

Camerata accompaniment styles of southern Italy described above.

The eighth chapter of Amat’s Guitarra deals with an expeditious intabulation

procedure. Setting forth a rather ambitious claim, Amat proposes a table in which the six

syllables of the hexachord are paired with guitar chords in order to enable the swift

conversion of any polyphonic piece of music to guitar tablature.385

384. Howell, “Symposium,” 65.

385. Amat, Guitarra, 28-37.
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Example 27. Using this table, Amat explains how to assign guitar triads to the sonorities
of fully notated scores.386

f a , ut,
d: f
i 2
n n lq9 irl J
c n 12
6 ,7
»■ ■ * h r
fol, re, 1 1 12 IO

h j i rn n
m ij, 9 .o 7 cS
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fa j I2 ! 3 10 11 12 i
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IP i Q d m n
l i t , f o l, |2 j i
5 7 , 8 ' 9 ic i t
re, la, 10*11 12 I 2
5, * , 7 f
‘ i 11,
mi xbzbjd b it m t n b p b qb.rb
8 1 9 1011112] I | 2 3'1 4 S 6 1 7-i

386. Amat, Guitarra, 31.

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Example 28. An unidentified piece arranged by Amat.387

Alto*

J&tete b b bb bbbbb t>b

** 3& 45 7 8 5 ?4-?4 * 7 S *7 5 4 7 < * ' S *

m ------------

At first glance, the figures over the bass look nearly identical to that which one

might find in a figured-bass part. The numbers actually indicate chord shapes though, not

intervals from the bass. Amat’s is a system similar to the Italian alfabeto employed by

Sanz. A full explanation of Amat’s method of intabulating polyphony would be too

extensive for the present study; briefly, the process consists of following the lowest voice

of the notated composition and, according to the consonances among the other voices,

choosing one of twenty-four chord shapes so that the harmonies are most accurately

encapsulated. One expects objections to the claim that a mere twenty-four block

harmonies might do justice to Palestrina, one of the most revered late-Renaissance master

387. Amat, Guitarra, 35.

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contrapuntalists. Nevertheless, the guitar reduction is a practicable point of departure, if

only for offering a logical hand position with which the main notes of the source

composition might be reached. Laying this triadic framework is not uncomparable to the

practices of the vihuelists, who would often significantly alter vocal scores to fit their

instrument.

Figured bass and comparable systems proved very useful in sacred and secular

music alike. Here one must address a possible distinction between figured bass and basso

continuo. Although scholars often regard the two terms to be synonymous, Hammel

claims, citing the work of F. F. Arnold, that the two are differentiated by the inclusion of

numbers in the former, and the absence thereof in the latter. As one might expect, figured

bass is seen as an outgrowth of basso continuo.388

In Spanish music, the tradition of improvised accompaniment from a bass line

appears earlier in secular than in sacred contexts. One fairly early example of how sacred

music would have adopted basso continuo—an example pertinent to the goal of this

thesis—is found in the devotional tonada in Castilian “A Domingo, con razon” by Juan

Bautista Comes (ca. 1582-1643).

388. Hammel, ‘The Figured-Bass Accompaniment,” 27-28 via F. F. Arnold, The

Art of Accompanying from a Thorough-Bass as Practised in the XVIlth and XVIIIth
Centuries (London: The Holland, 1961), 6.
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Example 29. An excerpt from the vernacular corpus of Comes. “A Domingo, con razdn,”
mm. 1-11.389

A Domingo, con raz6n

Tonada
f.© « . X - 29
T ra n *.: J . C I i m e n t

Many works in the style of “A Domingo, con razdn” continued to be composed

throughout the rest of the seventeenth century, often going unpublished. The resourceful

practice that has become known as recomposition, often illustrated through instances in

which worldly texts were replaced by spiritual texts, figured prominently in music of the

period. During the lifetime of Comes, the practice of sacred composition was moving

389. Juan Bautista Comes, “A Domingo, con razdn,” in Juan Bautista Comes
(15827-1643): Obras en lengua romance, vol. 4, Villancicos a los Santos, ed. Jose
Climent (Valencia, Spain: Institute Valenciano de Musicologia, 1979), 25.
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from imitative polyphony toward polychoral homophonic textures. Motets began to

include more elaborate instrumentation, while Masses kept accompaniment to the bass.390

The rules on figured bass from Instrvccion are part of the work’s second book.

Therefore, the first two editions of Sanz’s work did not treat figured bass at all.391 It is

clear that the most pressing concern of Sanz was to share his knowledge of strummed and

plucked styles in alfabeto and tablature notation, respectively. The sequence in which he

wrote his volumes duplicates the historical background put forth above.

Introducing the twelve rules on figured-bass accompaniment, Sanz clarifies his

purpose, “that the content of this compendium serve all musicians equally.”392 He

proceeds to qualify his statement, mentioning guitarists, organists, and harpists

specifically. Even with these details, the desire for establishing a universal system shines

through. Page 62 (note 105) of the present thesis alludes to inter-instrumental translation

among the guitar, harp, and organ by way of the front cover of Instrvccion. Amplifying

this potential for rich instrumental crossover, the front cover of book two adds

indefinitely to the three instruments mentioned above “any other instrument.”393

Far from the world of nominal pitch, figured bass according to Sanz calls for the

tuning of the guitar to the fixed-pitch system of the organ. The third course of the guitar

390. Greta J. Olson, introductory study to Juan Bautista Comes Masses Part I:
Masses for One and Two Choirs, ed. Greta J. Olson (Madison, WI: A-R, 1999), ix.
391. Garcia-Abrines, prologue and notes to Instrvccion, xxxiii.
392. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 28r: “para que lo contenido en efte Compendio,firva
igualmente para todos los MuJicos.M
393. Ibid.: “QVALQUIER OTROINSTRVMENTO.”
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is to be tuned to G, and from there, one proceeds as in the earlier rule on tuning. Here the

shortcomings of a nominal-pitch tradition are resolved, perhaps arguably sterilized;

limitless preparations of an instrument known for mutability are unified, systematized.

It is fitting to introduce a brief discussion on how the famed Spanish author

Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra (1547-1616) reshaped the picaresque novel in his

exemplary novellas. The picaresque tradition thrives on tales of roguery, of the

underclass depicted through the literal and figurative journeys of its individuals in a

society of deceit, corruption, and yet, opportunities for social mobility. E. Michael Gerli

has called it the “literature of delinquency.”394 It is of the utmost significance that,

skirting the traditional exposition of the picaro (rogue)’s own heritage, El licenciado

Vidriera (The Man of Glass, 1613) by Cervantes does away with one of the picaresque

school’s ruling components. Gerli explains,

While consciously alluding to the central picaresque motif of the search for a
master (busqueda de amo), Cervantes here also emphatically disavows from the
outset the picaresque’s ideological determinism, which obliged characters to
furnish an a priori identification of themselves while outlining their genealogy,
naming their place of origin, and giving an account of their social status. Instead,
the young man willfully refuses to supply his curriculum vitae and the anticipated
genealogical details, establishing both his and the narrator’s belief in the primacy
of the individual dissociated from a prehistory that circumscribes his actions or

394. E. Michael Gerli, Refiguring Authority: Reading, Writing, and Rewriting in

Cervantes (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1995), 12.
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places into question his liberty or personal moral worth. In short, Cervantes
repudiates the principle of family lineage (linaje) in a literary as well as a social
sense and opts for the confirmation of the preeminence of the person as the
foundation for the portrayal of his character.395

From the unmeasured tunings of folk guitar playing emerges a single standard to

which, for figured bass at least, all guitarists should accede. Like the process of

Cervantes’s literary criticism, which arrives at a new rendering of the picaresque

conformable to a level moral playing field, the vileness of common guitar playing is

brought into a musical arena wherein, with the help of fixed systems of tuning and

notation, it is metaphorically cured of its previous ties to the undesirably base. Picaros

were often tied to impure, or converso lineage, families whose recent history showed

conversions from Judaism or Islam. The early guitar is affiliated with the so-called

cristianos nuevos (new Christians) as well.396 One is quick to look suspiciously upon the

organ as a symbol of hegemonic force, but it is possible to argue that the guitar’s

acceptance into circles of erudition points to the cessation of past prejudices.

Keeping to Cervantes for a moment, one will take note of his esteem for Espinel,

whom he recognizes among Alonso de Valdes, Fray Luis, Lope, Gongora, Argensola,

and a long list of other ingenios of early modem Spain. Now would be a good time to

recall that Espinel himself wrote a picaresque novel, Vida del Escudero Marcos de

Obregon (1618), a largely autiobiographical account. The following is the Spanish of

Cervantes with a poetic translation into English by H. Oelsner and A. B. Welford:

395. Gerli, Refiguring Authority, 13.

396. Campo Tejedor and Caceres Feria, “Tocar a lo barbero,” 12-13.
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Del famoso Espinel cosas diria

que exceden al humano entendimiento,
de aquellas ciencias que en su pecho cria
el divino de Febo sacro aliento.
Mas, pues no puede de la lengua mia
decir lo menos de lo mas que siento,
no diga mas, sino que al cielo aspira,
ore tome la pluma, ora la lira.

(Words I might speak of famous Espinel

That pass beyond the wit of human kind,
Concerning all the sciences that dwell,
Nurtured by Phoebus’s breath, within his mind;
But since my tongue the least part cannot tell
Of the great things that in my soul I find,
I say no more save that he doth aspire
To Heaven, whether he take his pen or lyre.)397

Cervantes’s mastery of word play is widely recognized.398 In the passage above,

he shortens the Spanish word ahora (now) to ora, altering thefirst appearance of the

abbreviation in such a way that it bears resemblance to thesubjunctive mood. The

Dictionary of the Royal Academy of Spain confirms that changing ahora to ora is not a

practice unique to Cervantes;399 yet, in the context that houses it here, the device yearns

for recognition as a Classically-inspired play on words.

397. Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra, La galatea (Alcaic de Henares, Spain:

1585), ed. Jas Fitzmaurice-Kelly, trans. H. Oelsner and A. B. Welford (Glasgow: Gowans
and Gray, 1903), 268-69.
398. Professor Michael Hammer, email correspondence, December 16,2015.
399. Diccionario de la Real Academia Espahola, s.v. “ora,”
http://dle .rae .es/?id=R8JoZLt.
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The Spanish orar, from the Latin orare, means to pray. Knowing that an orator is

one who speaks with eloquence in public, the word ora, be it indicative of prayer or

delivering a speech (or both), catches the eye of the student interested in humanism. As

Espinel takes his pen, the lira (lyre, but here referring to the five-course guitar) prays—or

does it speak?

Another deciphering of the word play sees ore and tome as first-person

conjugations of the preterite tense. Correctly accented, the words would be ore and tome.

Entertaining this interpretation, and permitting poetic license to be flexible with the

grammar of the Spanish, I have furnished the following translation: I prayed, then took up

my pen. Now the lyre speaks.

If all opportunities for word play are denied, then at the very least one finds the

pen and the guitar together. For Espinel, a leading artist of his age, these tools bring him

one step closer to his heavenly aspirations.

Continuing in preparation for his twelve rules on figured-bass accompaniment,

Sanz provides a list of the eight church modes. That Sanz lists only eight modes speaks to

the antiquated conceptions of theory prevalent in Spain. It is a well-known fact that, all

the way back in 1547, Glarean proposed in his Dodecachordon the addition of four more

modes to the traditional set of eight. Instruction lays out the eight traditional modes and

pairs each with an alfabeto harmony, which may easily be seen as an effort in translation

from Latin- to vernacular-based music.

As far as I know, I am the first to write about the following important attribute of
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this modal-alfabeto compatibility of Sanz. Owing to the fact that no alfabeto harmony is

repeated, Sanz’s list may suggest that certain accidentals were employed more frequently

than others, depending on mode and ambitus. For example, Mode I takes a D-minor triad

while Mode II takes a G minor triad. Modes I and II share the same final—one might

classify them to be two versions of the same mode—but the G-minor triad contains a 13-

flat. Could this lead to a detailed understanding of how certain modes were chromatically

altered? While it may seem there are very few altered notes, the heptatonic Ionian and

Aeolian modes from each triadic root broaden the possibilities. To be clear, table 1 does

not include any transposed modes. The roots of the triads do not necessarily match the

modal finals.*100A brief discussion on this topic will be offered in chapter 9, where

primary-source compositions more thoroughly form the basis of discourse. For now, see

the table below.

400.1 realize root is a modern term. In the interest of concision and in order to
avoid unnecessary tangents, I have employed a tonal-theory term to which most readers
will relate more easily, despite the problem of anachronism.
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MODE TRIAD ACCIDENTALS

I D Minor None

II G Minor B-flat

III E Minor None

IV A Minor, but None, but

ends with E Major ends with G-Sharp
V C Major None

VI F Major None

VII A Minor None

VIII G Major None

Table 1. Sanz’s modt-alfabeto pairings.401

From the declarations of Sanz that encompass all musicians to the requirement of

tuning the guitar to the organ, and then the modt-alfabeto pairs, the introduction to the

rules on figured bass do much to underscore support for popular style within a sacred

setting. Figured bass was not confined to sacred music, but Sanz’s reference to the organ

as well as to the Cantor, as opposed to cantante, pique one’s interest in how the rules are

to be used.

Addressing the readers of Nvevo modo de Cifra, Doizi de Velasco directs his

words “AL MVSICO, CANTOR, y Cantante (To the Musician, Singer, and singer).”402

401. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 28v.

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While it is difficult to document differences between cantor and cantante in Spanish

dictionaries, the title of Nvevo modo de Cifra gives a valuable clue.

Doizi de Velasco uses the two terms as if they held separate meanings. If they

were interchangeable, then why include both? Moreover, prior and subsequent headings

tend to use all capital letters for main words, leaving subtitles and less powerful details

lower cased and, where appropriate, with capitalized initial letters. The front cover credits

Doizi de Velasco thusly: “POR NICOLAO DOIZJ DE VELASCO, mujlco de camara de fu

Mageftad, y dela del Sehor Infante Cardenal.,vm Doizi de Velasco’s name is set in all

capitals, but chamber musician remains lower cased. Magesty and Sir Cardinal, Son of

the King receive initial capitals. Nvevo modo de Cifra is dedicated to “£>. MARGARITA

DE AVSTRIA BRANCHIFORTI, YCOLONA.” In the long list of royal tides and

territories over which Dona Margarita presides, nowhere does a word set in all capital

letters appear. The last example offered here is relevant to an examination of the lesser

status of women in early modem Spanish society. Don Francisco of Balboa and Paz

offers a poem, and is recognized in a format that keeps his maternal surname below the

honor of his paternal surname: “£>. FRANCISCO DE BALBOA, y Paz.”404

Paolo Gozza dicusses the importance of ancient divisions of music as a complex

intellectual entity. He notes that Boethius handed down this methodology to theorists of

402. Doizi de Velasco, Nvevo Modo de Cifra, 1.

403. Ibid., front cover.
404. Ibid., vi.
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the Renaissance,405 namely, Gioseffo Zarlino (1517-1590), whom Doizi de Velasco

frequently cited. Concluding Nvevo Modo de Cifra, Doizi de Velasco identified his work

with the “Pythagorean-Boethian tradition”406: “Musician, the name held by he who knows

music both theoretically and practically . . . Singer {cantor), he who reads and performs

music . . . Singer (cantante), he who has not studied, but sings out of curiousity or natural

inclination.”407The Spanish cantor finds itself in use in modem English as well. With

origins in the mid-sixteenth century, the word has come to designate a singer leading

Jewish or Christian worship specifically.408 If Sanz’s use of cantor does not apply only to

a singer of liturgical music, then it almost certainly implies a singer educated in the

theory and notation of music—not just guitar tablature, but composition on the staff.

Musical literacy was tied much more closely to ecclesiastical culture than to the laity.

Rule one is the perfect embodiment of a rebirth of ancient music theory within the

parameters of modal polyphony. The three generae of ancient Greek music are dressed

with triadic harmonies. Sanz was upfront about the diatonic scale, but identified neither

the chromatic nor enharmonic genera by name. Be this as it may, the musical examples

speak for themselves. The first of three scales Sanz proposes to be integral to figured bass

is a diatonic scale from G, Mode VII. The second is the same fundamental heptatonic

scale from G, but harmonized with only minor triads. That this second scale corresponds

405. Paolo Gozza, ed., Number to Sound: The Musical Way to the Scientific
Revolution (Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer, 2000), 10-13.
406. Ibid., 12.
407. Doizi de Velasco, Nvevo modo de Cifra, 79.
408. New Oxford American Dictionary, s.v. “cantor.”
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to the chromatic genera is easy to see; instead of the triad G-B-D, the first sonority is

chromatically altered—G-B-flat-D. The other chromaticized chords occur as B-minor,

C-minor, D-minor, and F-minor triads. The third scale may be seen as enharmonic in the

sense that it shares the major triad from G with the diatonic scale, but differs in that its

harmonizations are all major triads. Sanz applies the three-generae system of the ancients

to practical accompaniment patterns consisting of major and minor triads.

Example 30. A simplified version of the diatonic, chromatic, and enharmonic scales as
harmonized in Instruction.409

4 * g # .. ..........

4 g s§ #8 it& b#§ =8

In the context of figured bass, Sanz conceives of Mode VII tetrachordally. A G-

major triad begins the lower tetrachord, which proceeds to an A-minor triad and then, in

order to avoid the B-F diminished fifth as well as any accidentals, the sonority from B

features a minor third and a minor sixth. A C-major triad completes the lower tetrachord

409. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 33r.

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as well as commencing the upper. Thus, Mode VII is harmonized as two conjunct

tetrachords. Ancient Greek music theory is largely dependent on the interplay between

conjunct tetrachords—those in which the highest note of the lower tetrachord begins the

upper—and disjunct tetrachords—those in which the highest note of the lower tetrachord

and the lowest note of the highest tetrachord are separated.410

Sanz teaches that the Mi notes of the diatonic scale are to be harmonized with a

minor third and a minor sixth. Therefore, one assigns the following syllables to Mode

VII: Ut (G) Re (A) Mi (B) Fa/Ut (C) Re (D) Mi (E) Fa (F). Hexachordal theory is alive

and well. In a potentially frustrating, though ultimately informative example of the

association between punteado style and contrapuntal theory, Sanz harmonizes the note E

of the diatonic scale with a perfect fifth and major third in alfabeto notation, but a minor

sixth and minor third in tablature. Traditional vocal range is also maintained; Sanz directs

the student to follow the same procedures for the middle and high registers as for the low.

410. Matthew Shirlaw, ‘The Music and Tone-Systems of Ancient Greece,” Music
and Letters 32, no. 2 (1951): 138, http://www.jstor.org/stable/729343.
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Example 31. Musical example from the first of the twelve figured-bass rules. Spanish
tuning shown here in modern notation.411

,o .......... X )......... —... o ..................

l i ....H
# = J
8

b $ s = i
8
-e -
f t ......... o -o -
U : * H — 0 --------------

Example 32. Musical example from the first of the twelve figured-bass rules in Roman
tuning and modem notation.412

fJ o
w o

8
jr .....

The figures above depict three distinct versions of a portion of the first rule. Sanz

provides alfabeto for the tetrachord G-A-B-C. The transcription of the alfabeto appears

first (ex. 31). Next, in spite of Sanz’s explicit statement that the tablature provided in rule

one is for playing in the plucked style—and the appropriate tuning for the plucked style

411. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 33r.

412. Ibid.
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would not necessitate a bass clef in modem transcription—I have provided the tablature

transcribed as if it were meant for a Spanish tuning, in this case with octave fourth and

fifth courses. The plucked-style tablature appears after the double bar line of example 31.

My reasoning is well founded on an important aspect of the very first rule of

Instrvccion, where Sanz counts among the uses for octave courses “to provide the bass

for a vocal or instrumental soloist.”413 Lastly, example 32 shows rule one in Roman

tuning. The clumsy repetition of the note C, occurring on unison courses, results in a

rather weak, incomplete sound, which challenges the notion that plucked-style tablature

within the figured-bass rules is intended only for plucked-style tuning.

Rule two might serve as a counterargument to the notion that the figured bass

practices of Sanz align with the chromaticized expressiveness of the stile moderno. This

second rule places restrictions on composers’ freedom to employ accidentals wherever

they wish—though this freedom would likely not have been arbitrary, but, rather, in

accord with the text of a given piece—moreover, the rule is silent on concord between

music and text in favor of upholding conventional applications of chromaticism.

As usual in Instrvccion, Sanz leaves generous room for exceptions to the rules. He

notes that one “tends” to see sharps on G, C, D, and F. Explaining flats, Sanz is firmer,

stating that “only” E, B, and A are to be flatted.414This less flexible stance reflects the

persistence of hexachordal theory; E, B, and A are the Mi notes of the natural, hard, and

413. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 8r: “acompanarfe el baxo con algun tono, dfonada.”
414. Ibid., fol. 29r: “fefuele,” “folo.”
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soft hexachords, respectively. It should be clear by now that this exposition of accidentals

contrasts sharply with the system of alfabeto, which permits triads with major and minor

thirds from any note. Studying the seemingly rigid policy on flats more closely, one finds

potential additions to E, B, and A. If one is to allow for transposed modes, a concept long

associated with the equally tempered vihuela and guitar, then possibilities grow

significantly within Sanz’s assertion that “flats are added only to Mi notes.”415

Like clues of more adventurous uses of sharps and flats hiding within the

strictures of modal polyphonic theory, progressive humanists in Spain had to confront or

adapt to the conservative attitudes of the greater constructs of society. One need only

review this study’s expositions of the writers of the period in question in order to observe

a general trend of subversion at one or another level. Fray Luis is a good example of the

dynamic interplay between the old and the new, the conventional and the progressive. He

is particularly interesting, in my view, because he was an educator.

In 1561, the students of Salamanca University elected Fray Luis professor of

Thomistic philosophy. He taught theology also, at the same institution. These fields were

territory of the scholasticists, but it is said Fray Luis moved in reformist circles,

representing the humanist pursuit of eloquence and its ensuing functionality. He did not

hesitate to address and attempt to improve “older methods in matters of the purely

415. Sanz, Instruction, fol. 29r: “Los Bemoles fe juntan folo a las notas, y fignos
que tienen mies.”
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learned world,”416 and did so with close attention to problems of translation from

Classical to Renaissance languages, as well as sharpened focus on moral teachings of the

ancients and their synthesis with Christianity. J. D. M. Ford perceives “the theologian

who is also a humanist and philologist, one whose is motto is—'Philologia theologiae

ancilla’ [philology is the maidservant of theology]—but who believes that the servant

deserves considerate treatment from her mistress.”417

As this study progresses, I am increasingly drawn to the union between what

Atlas considers to be a divided view of the movement that has come to be known as

humanism.418 On one hand, there is the Kristellerian idea of humanism; humanism

belongs to the umanista, professor of the five studia humanitatis. On the other, one finds

what may be called an attitude of humanism, a somewhat amorphous context in which

Classical studies—those in which morality took shape by way of linguistic excellence—

were pervasively reintroduced to the Western European world. It seems impossible to

disentangle from either of these perspectives, as well as the two conjoined, the

ubiquitously recurring motif of a sincere empowerment of marginalized sectors of

society. Lope praises the pioneering work of Fray Luis:

416. Ford, “Luis de Leon,” 270.

417. Ibid.
418. Atlas, Renaissance Music, 701-02.
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You were the august glory of Augustus,

You the honor of the Castilian tongue,
Which you desired to present in written form;
You saw that it imitates Latin so much,
That it might compete with this language of Rome.419

In Christian Western Europe, many humanists wove religious sentiment, an effective

bridge across class boundaries, into their thinking.

The attempt to extend knowledge and learning to the common classes in their own

language appears in the Bible itself. But Jesus’s use of parables is not a simple matter of

changing linguistic registers. The parable of the sower (Matthew 13:1-23) is not just an

explanation of the word of God for peasant farmers. Jesus himself reveals, according to

scripture, that the reason for which parables are required is that those who have strayed

from the teachings of the old covenant will be denied a pure understanding of “the secrets

of the kingdom of heaven”420 as taught in the New Testament. As much as one wants to

appreciate the poetic nature of the parables, there is no denying that one factor of coded

419. Lope de Vega y Carpio, Laurel de Apolo, con otras rimas . . . (Madrid,
Spain: Iuan Gonzalez, 1630), fol. 33v-34r:
Tu fuifte gloria de Auguftino Augufta,
Tu el honor de la lengua Caftellana,
Que defeafte introduzir efcrita,
Viendo que a la Romana tanto imita,
Que puede competir con la Romana.
420. Matthew (Gospel) 13:11, (Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic
Edition).
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language is self-evident—the clearest possible communication is hindered. Arguably, this

ciphering of thought is a process by which the teaching is greatly enriched.421

The third of the twelve rules on figured bass draws on text, tablature, and bass

lines to teach three types of cadences. Showing himself to be a bit of a conservative, not

an unusual occurrence in Instruction, Sanz plainly states that the three types of cadences

described in rule three exhaust the possibilities: “Rule Three: Accompanying All the

Cadences of the Bass.”422 Like the second rule, the third rule contains much that may be

seen as contrary to the allowance of unprepared dissonance. But, yet again able to

respond to absolutism with diplomacy, one locates important evidence supportive of the

guitar’s innovation.

I will now provide an explanation of example 33 (below). Further details will be

given preceding example 34.1 have chosen four-two time because it affords temporal

space for the solo part, which is absent from the score. The notation of Sanz does not

indicate a mensuration sign or a time signature, but four-two time facilitates the depiction

of rhythmic requirements found in Sanz’s text. Like prior transcriptions into modem

notation, the octave, unison, and single-string courses of the Spanish guitar are

distributed among three staves. Additionally, example 33 makes use of a figured-bass

part, above which the realization is found in the aforementioned three staves.

421. Loyola Press, A Jesuit Ministry, “Parables and How Jesus Taught with
Them,” (Loyola Press, 2013), http://www.loyolapress.com/parables-and-how-jesus
-taught-with-them .htm.
422. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 29r: “Regia tercera: para acompahar todas las
cadencies, y claufulas finales del baxo.”
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All of the cadences are separated from each other by double bar lines. Sanz calls

the first two cadences closed cadences; this is a type of cadence distinguished by the

bass’s descending by perfect fifth or ascending by perfect fourth. The notated ties to A

and F in the first and second cadences, respectively, conform to Sanz’s requiring that

harmonic perfect fourths from the bass be appropriately prepared, that the two notes of

said interval are not articulated at once. The third cadence of example 33 is a variation on

the closed cadence. In this variant, the four-three suspension is “covered”423 by a sixth

and a fifth.

The second of Sanz’s three cadence types is exemplified in the fourth, fifth and

six cadences. It is called a stepwise, or tenor cadence. The bass descends by step from Fa

to Mi, and finally to Re. Variations include Mi, Re, Ut or La, So, Fa (fifth cadence

below) and So, Fa, Mi (sixth cadence below). Seven-six suspensions are prepared with

ties.

The seventh and final cadence of example 33 is defined by the bass’s use of a

motive characteristic of the tiple. Tiple is a Spanish term for the highest voice; cantus is a

more well-known word with the same meaning. The motive Fa, Mi, Fa in the lowest

voice gives the cadence its name, cadencia de tiple (cantus cadence). A two-three

anticipation between the bass and the tiple couples with parallel sixths between the two

lowest voices, illustrating one interpretation of Sanz’s open-ended combination of text,

tablature, and figured bass.

423. Sanz,Instrvccion,fol. 29v, 33r: “cubierta.”

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Example 33. A modem transcription of portions from the rule-three example. Text,
tablature, and staff-notation bass lines with figures integrate.424

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The text of rule three is indispensable to the application of the rule’s principles.

Standard performance practice and musica ficta also play into the clear communication of

the ideas of Sanz. It is in the text that Sanz gives details on preparing dissonances with

ties, chromatically altering intervals that do not appear with accidentals in the figured

424. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 29r-v, fol. 33r.

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bass, and how to treat a fourth voice, if the accompanist opts for a fuller texture or, for

example, does not want to double the solo part. It is significant that in the lute-style

tablature that accompanies the bass line and figures, opportunity for unprepared

dissonance abounds.

Be it a shortcoming of tablature format or an omission on the part of Sanz due to

his having explained in words the specifics of how the cadences are to be executed, the

absence of important details separates guitar tablature from traditional theory. One is able

to argue that, standing alone, the intabulated realizations of the figured bass depict key

aspects of the new style. Ties are nowhere to be seen. Relating the intricacies of formal

counterpoint as espoused by Sanz seems incompatible with his system of tablature.

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Example 34. Sanz’s format shows a figured bass in staff notation above tablature for the
guitar. Note the absence of ties in the tablature.425

Reading further on in rule three, after the text accompanying the tablature and

figured-bass notation, one notices a tone in which innovation and humility mix. Sanz

makes it known that neither Corbetta nor Juan Bautista Granada communicate

contrapuntal or compositional guidelines; they do not offer repertory-like examples of

bass lines with which the principals are to be employed. In stating this, he foregrounds

his personal progress. Yet, he defers both to several of his contemporaries in the field of

instruction on figured bass as well as to his “great teachers.”426There is an unmistakably

humble, perhaps even self-deprecating way about the closing words of the third rule on

figured bass: “The following words of advice . . . will fall short only as a result of their

having been reforged by my inferior talents.”427

425. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 33r.

426. Ibid.,fol. 30r: “grandes Maeftros.”
427. Ibid., “las advertencies de abaxo . . . solo tendran de malo, el aver eftado en
la fragua de mi corto talento,” ellipsis mine.
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Comparable attitudes were adopted by many Spanish musicians and writers

working in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The authority of tradition reared by

Church-and-state powers had an important part to play in artistic and intellectual culture,

but did not eclipse the individual, a human agent possessing free will and capable of

meaningful inquiry. The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and Mystery (2008), a

book on philosophy by David E. Cooper, provides an example of the endurance of the

issues described above.

Philosophy professors A. W. Moore and Peter Poellner, as well as the Times

Higher Education Supplement, laud Cooper’s tome, the thesis of which revolves around

embracing mystery as a solution to “the impasse reached when humanism and absolutism

are both rejected.”428 Cooper examines necessarily pluralistic subjective inquiry—each

human being manifests his or her own perspective on the universe—against a single

metaphysical truth. “He argues, in an original manner, that the rival positions are indeed

guilty of a lack of humility.”429

A call for humility might be made in the name of modem musical culture as well.

A strong financial incentive marks—perhaps mars—mainstream music and competitive

conservatories alike. A greater awareness and more active mimesis of music history

would provide a counterbalance to the drive for originality and self-expression, and

428. Amazon.com, description of The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility,

and Mystery, by David E. Cooper (Oxford University Press, 2008),
http://www.amazon.com/The-Measure-Things-Humanism-Humility/dp/0199235988.
429. Ibid.
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especially for Western-classical enthusiasts, to the obsession with reproducing flawless

interpretations of sounds long since past. My admonition applies to an adoption of

historically established musical philosophy in so far as this heritage may deem music a

tool for understanding the world, far from just a vehicle for self-promotion and personal

advancement.

I think of Gradus ad Parnassum (1725) by Johann Joseph Fux. The teacher in this

dialogue-style text says to his student-to-be, “Perhaps the hope of future riches and

possessions induces you to choose this life? If this is the case, believe me you must

change your mind; not Plutus but Apollo rules Parnassus. Whoever wants riches must

take another path.”430This quote serves the purpose of demonstrating the persistence of

Classical learning, its centrality to post-Renaissance generations. The science of music,

especially that of plucked chordophones, shows ever more relevance as a method of

worshipping the divine and as a microcosm of nature, even an extension in the universal

chain of creation: divine mysteiy, man, instrument. Vis-a-vis man’s building plucked

chordophones in his own image, the Spanish guitar certainly stands out.

Figured-bass rule number four lays out an important rhythmic aspect of

accompaniment. The basic premise of this guideline is that chords should be assigned

only to strong beats. Only duple meter appears in the explanation of Sanz. He describes

semiminims, crochets, and semicrochets. The notation represents the textual explanation

430. Johann Joseph Fux, Gradus ad Parnassum, trans. and ed. Alfred Mann (New
York: W. W. Norton, 1965), 20.
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with quarter-, eighth-, and sixteenth-notes, respectively. For the sake of clarity, I make

the disclaimer that the net result is the equivalent of the time signature known to today’s

musicians as cut time. One half-note comprises one half of each measure.

Example 35. Figured-bass rule four.431

As one will see from example 35, five of six measures feature chords only on

beats one and two (if one were to think in modem four-four time, then the chords would

occur on beats one and three). In the fourth measure, the second half of beat two (in cut

time) is filled out with a chord. Sanz describes this anomaly in the text of rule four. His

text and music conclude that, at times, it is permissible to play chords on weak beats if

the bass happens to approach the note on that beat by a third. Considering the rhythmic

flare characteristic of much Spanish music from the Baroque, one may be surprised Sanz

writes in such a conservative manner. Hemiola, so favored a device of Spanish

431. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 34r.

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composers, has no place in the fourth guideline. Other syncopations are basically

prohibited by the simple fact that Sanz does not discuss them.

While one may begin to question if this figured-bass teaching is conducive to

expressive texts, daring chromaticism, and lively folk rhythms, some lateral thinking may

be required so that more traditional, word-to-tone renditions of musical humanism may

be addressed. In this regard, a single concept applies to strummed-style harmonic patterns

and contrapuntal restraint alike. The limitations put on instrumental accompaniment

allow for clearer audiblity of the text. When the guitar is occupied with emphasizing a

steady beat, subtleties of the relationship between text and melody are more easily

appreciated. Another explanation for the bland treatment of rhythm is that Instrvccion

was written with the beginning guitarist in mind.

The Spanish repertory of music convenient for solo voice with figured-bass

accompaniment contains several cases in which the concepts of rule four seem to be

flouted. The predominance of triple meter in the repertory begs for more attention paid to

groups of three equal beats early in the unfurling of the rules. The first unambiguous

appearance of triple meter is found in rule ten.

Sanz himself challenges the limits of rule four in the exercises following the

musically notated explanation of rule twelve. One notices discrepancies between theory

and practice. Moreover, Sanz again requires induction, leaving the deviations from his

teachings devoid of textual elaboration. In light of Instruction's paucity of detail with

regard to the intricacies of the rhythm of accompaniment, one sees that the Spanish guitar
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was still working its way up into music of high culture. Thirty years before Instrvccion,

in the most recent didactic treatise before that of Sanz, Velasco touched on some

principles of accompanying from a bass line, but neglected to include practical examples

resembling the repertoiy itself. Perhaps harpists would be better acquainted with the

idosyncracies of art songs suitable for figured-bass arrangement.

However, the musical characteristics of the traditionally Spanish romances viejos

(old ballads), as arranged by the vihuelists, crop up again in a later setting of an Italian

sonnet in Spanish.432 1 have shown the Spanish guitar to be an outgrowth of the vihuela,

so the possibility of solo voice-and-guitar arrangements of seventeenth-century

polyphonic vocal music should not be discarded. In the case that multiple continuo

instruments would replace the lower parts of a polyphonic vocal work, especially a

secular piece, the guitar would have likely been present.

Example 36 (below) comes from the 1625 Spanish Cancionero de la Sablonara, a

collection of secular vocal polyphony that exemplifies

the confluence of the diverse popular, or popular-like, musical idioms that surged
around the turn of the seventeenth century The underlying polyphonic texture
of the majority of works in the Cancionero is also indicative of the more popular
idiom: the three- and four-part works usually consist of two interchangeable upper
parts (tiples) that tend to proceed in parallel thirds, while the lowest part (bass,
bajete, or tenor) is oriented towards a more harmonic function; and whenever
there is a middle part (usually an alto), it serves as a “filling-in.5,433

432. Etzion, Cancionero, Iv.

433. Ibid., 1.
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With the melodic interest situated in the tiples and the harmonic role of the bass,

the music found in the Cancionero de la Sablonara is easily transcribed in figured-bass

notation. Apart from the description of texture found in the citation above, Etzion

references romance settings of the vihuelists. The old ballad style, either purely vocal or

with vihuela accompaniment, possesses the following attributes: phrases consisting of

one line of poetry each, rare instances of textual repetition, duple meter, long note values

implying a relatively slow tempo, predominating homorhythm, low and narrow range,

and anapestic anacruses at the beginning of each phrase.434The setting of the Italianate

sonnet below (ex. 36) shares all of these qualities.

434. Etzion, Cancionero, 1.

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Example 36. The opening three phrases of a soneto setting by Bias.435

21. Desiertos campos, arboles sombrios

Soneto A 4
Juan Bias

f. 21v - 2 3 r

435. Juan Bias de Castro, “Desiertos campos, arboles sombrios,” in Etzion,

Cancionero, 85-86.
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os, me - d ro -s o va - lie, 16 - b re-g o y ce-rra - do, al

os, in - cul - to mon- t e ^ - it - ril, e - ri - za - do, e -

Hence, one observes the assimilation of high-culture foreign poetry into musical

styles associated with native Spanish verse. The sonnet of the Cancionero de la

Sablonara is representative of “the more erudite, fashionable trend of the so-called

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sixteenth-century ‘Spanish madrigals.”’436However, the Hispanicization of the Italian

sonnet along folk-inspired lines was clearly important for Bias. The auro-oral old ballad

was attractive to vihuelists, and continued to entice the subsequent generation.

With regard to rule four of Instrvccion, one must realize that the bass line of the

Bias disobeys the teachings of Sanz. The bass line also follows the teachings in an

important way. One prospective point of contention deserves clarification before any

more detailed analysis.

Sanz’s musical example for rule four appears to be in cut time, while the Bias is

transcribed into modem notation in common time. But this discrepancy does not impinge

upon the basic logic behind the rule and its exceptions. Sanz does not explicitly hold his

teachings to the time signature employed in his musical example. “Every down beat and

every up beat should receive chordal accompaniment,”437 he writes, and qualifies his

statement not with a prescribed mensuration sign or time signature, but, rather, with a

discussion of note values. Furthermore, the exercises provided as practice for the twelve

guidelines of figured bass are composed in common time, but place stress on beats one

and three.

The sonnet setting by Bias also accents beats one and three. The recurring

rhythmic emphasis is achieved by several means. Quarter-note anacruses place weight on

beat one, as in the last beat of measures 1,7, and 11. Cadences on beat one of measures 6,

436. Etzion, Cancionero, lix.

437. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 30r: “todo el dar, y algar de compos, fe deve
acompanar\ ”
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11, and 15 highlight beat one. Beat three receives some attention from the quarter-dotted-

eighth rhythm in measure 12, but assumes its due importance in earnest when one begins

to study the word accents of the text.

In the first iteration of the above example, referring to the top line of text, there

are ten first beats of the measure on which syllables begin; seven receive syllables

accented in speech. The three that do not receive the spoken accent occur at cadences,

displaying Bias’s organizational skill and attention to linguistic detail. All of the spoken

accents in the above portion of the text that are not assigned to beat one sound on beat

three instead. This type of metrical accent has been passed down to modem music.

The full chords on beats other than one and three are integral to the style of Bias’s

sonnet setting, especially in so far as they imitate spoken language. The following is an

extract from the opera La purpura de la rosa, a work drawn from the music of Juan

Hidalgo (1614-1685) and that of Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco (ca. 1644-1728).

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Example 37. The syllabic-style arioso response, with figured-bass, of Adonis to a

question asked by Venus.438

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Here too, spoken accent aligns faithfully with the accents on beats one and three,

respectively, in common time. Beat three of the first measure receives the stressed

syllable som of sombras. The accented mi of dormi commences the following measure.

The excerpt continues on in this manner; this solo for Adonis holds to metrical accents on

one and three throughout. When the bass proceeds in quarter notes, figures on beat two

438. Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco and Juan Hidalgo, La purpura de la rosa

(Lima, Peru: 1701), ed. Louise K. Stein (Madrid: ICCMU, 1999), 71.
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challenge the rule of Sanz. In his practical examples, Sanz duplicates this tendency.

Clearly, Sanz admits that the exception proves the rule. To borrow terminology from the

language arts, practical usage differs from grammar theory.

Example 38. Sanz’s figured-bass exercises, mm. 1-11.439

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An excerpt from the figured-bass exercises of Instrvccion appears above. In

measure 1, the full chord on beat two serves to establish the modal final. The same device

is employed in measure 3, but this time the tenor is rectified. In measure 5, the harmonic

focus returns to the final. Though the terminology is modal—the title of the exercises

explicitly mentions Mode I—one easily observes an early example of the tonally minded

compositional practice of establishing the tonic triad at the outset of a piece via

alternation between tonic- and dominant-function harmonies.

Pablo L. Rodriguez describes the undying native Spanish elements in the music of

composer Sebastian Duron (ca. 1660-1716) in a 2003 edition of Duron’s Oficio de

439. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 35r.

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difuntos (Office for the dead), a sacred composition in Latin. Though foreign influences

on Spanish music were steadily growing, Duron is known for his blend of Spanish

conservatism and international innovation. Chief among the traditional characteristics of

Dur6n’s music is the integration of instruments into the vocal parts, as opposed to a more

strictly concertato separation of voices and instruments.440 Reminiscent of the guitar’s

close associations to the voice, here too one finds a push toward uniting the sounds of the

voice with the sounds of an instrument. The metrical accents of figured bass relate to the

ideas of Sanz.

Example 39. Duron, Oficio de difuntos, mm. 18-44.441

440. Sebastian Duron, Oficio de difuntos a tres y cinco coros, ed. Pablo L.
Rodriguez (Madrid: Alpuerto, 2003), 28.
441. Ibid., 71-73.
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Example 39 demonstrates the text’s governance of rhythm, as well as its authority

to bend the rule that assigns accompanying harmonies to strong beats only. Amaritudine

(bitterness), beginning in measure 20 in chorus four (two measures after the beginning of

the excerpt), is set according to spoken accent through measure 30. The syllable tu is

correctly given a long note value in imitation of how the word would be spoken. A from

animae (soul) is stressed on beat one in all but the tiple of choir one, making for a brief

point of incipient imitation. Dicam does not conform to the notion that beats one and

three are inherently strong, but the figured bass (second part from the bottom) fills in for

the voices.

The word accent of noli asks for a strong beat on no, but it is denied, save for

choir one in measure 40. On condemnare, Duron regains traditional rhythmic stability.

That Dur6n decided to disobey the agreement between word accent and metrical accent at

this particular juncture is notable. Altering the expected rhythmic scheme underscores the

powerful text, “I say to God: do not condemn me.”442

Example 40 comes from Francisco Vails (1665-1747). Many bass figures appear

on beats two or four, though word accents align with metrical pulse on the words vides

(mm. 15-17) and animosa (mm. 17-18). Firmat and fides (mm. 18-20) take part in a

confusion of word and metrical accent at the cadence ending on the first beat of measure

20.

442. Dur6n, Oficio, 72-73: “Dicam Deo: Noli me condemnare.”

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One point in common with the typically Spanish music of La purpura de la rosa

is frequent movement through the circle of fifths. Harmonic shifts of Vails take place

from C to G, followed by D and A, and then imply the flat side of the circle of fifths after

melodic material reminiscent of the opening theme of the motet (measure 14). Stein

describes the changes of mode of La purpura:

The harmonic scheme of the opera has been moving from the “higher” realm of
sharps to the “lower” realm of flats along the circle of fifths, not through the
rationalized, symmetrical movement characteristic of early eighteenth-century
modulation, but through a kind of modulation derived from the older Renaissance
practice of modal modulation and described in seventeenth-century manuals for
guitar, with changes of signature and downward shifts through the hexachordal
system.443

Stein correlates movement through the circle of fifths with the trajectory of the plot of the

opera, thus linking the chordal theory of the guitar to an artistic world in which the

content of the text would dictate the composition and execution of accompaniment parts.

The reverse is also true: purely instrumental music was mounting more precise expressive

force.

Example 40. Mm. 1-29 of the motet Dogma datur christianis of Vails.444

443. Stein, introductory study to Torrejon y Velasco and Hidalgo, libretto De la

Barca, La purpura, xxx, NB: While I have done my best to be careful not to confuse the
tonal term “modulation” with words associated more closely with modal theory, I have
left the text of Stein unaltered.
444. Francisco Vails, Four Motets for 6 Voices with Continuo, ed. Scala Aretina
(Mollerussa, Catalonia, Spain: Scala Aretina, 2002), 5.
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2. Dogma datur christianis

In festo Corporis Christi

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et Vi - numin san - gui - nem,
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23

Rule five continues the orthodox approach to figured bass. The basic guideline is

to always accompany the second note of a melodic leap in the bass line with a

consonance. Furthermore, leaps of a third, sixth, and octave will not usually require a

change in the scale from which one was forming chords. One finds Sanz especially bound
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to tradition upon reading that chromaticized melodic leaps must be prepared in the

accompaniment of the first note. See the following example for further detail.

Example 41. Sanz notates what seems to be a staple of traditional performance

practice.445

The implication here is that, even if no figure were to appear over the note A in

the example above, one would be obligated to accompany the A with a C-sharp because

of the following note. As Sanz hints in rule three, this idea is not original. It was passed

down to Sanz by his teachers from Spain, Rome, Venice, and Naples.446 Owing to the

plurality of sources, there must be some remnant of established performance practice.

One may find it interesting that Sanz justifies his reasoning by stating that one’s own

aural perception should be the judge. Not abiding by this rule would be to make “music

of bad taste, and infirm ear.”447The “proximity of the strong and the bland”448 is

prohibited.

Yet, the propinquity of diatonic and chromatically altered notes was familiar for

Victoria nearly a century earlier. One may argue that Sanz was writing from the

445. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 34r.

446. Ibid., fol. 29v-30r.
447. Ibid., fol. 30v: “Mujica de mal gufto, y de oido enfermo.”
448. Ibid.: “la vezindad de fuerte, y blando.”
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viewpoint of a reformer as much as that of an innovator. Shedding the complexities of

master contrapuntalists, he proposes a measured and unstartling approach to harmony, an

approach distinctly reminiscent of the pastoral sounds of Spanish folk music. The

following excerpt of the motet Ascendens Christus in Altum challenges the fifth rule of

Sanz from beats three to four of measures 78 and 80. D-naturals clash with D-flats as the

bass ascends by minor third.

Example 42. Victoria, Ascendens Christus in Altum, mm. 78-81.449

80
OV
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.... -------------------- z £
r r - ^ - r
-u s ir iu - bi - l a -t i -o nc, a -
= 4 = = , ) j . f r r n i j
M “• w ts u _^ji 0 s w it
E E E i
- a " .................
in
in iu - bi - «-»y»

...... 1..... . I __

iu ** bi - la -ti-o - n< a -s c e n -d it

ft* •4 j - r f r j f r i j ----------- -p—— —— —^

'i
iu - bi - la -t f -6 - - n<z y in
1r r r
iu - bi - la - ti - o - nc,
= j¥ = = ¥ = = ± = ,

iu - bi - l a - ti - o - nc,

“Tened, parad, suspended, elementos,” a secular tono by Hidalgo, follows Sanz’s

rule from measures 16 to 17, but elsewhere displays close encounters between diatonic

449. Tomas Luis de Victoria, Ascendens Christus in Altum: Mass and Motet for
Five Voices, transcribed and ed. Bruno Turner (London: Vanderbeek & Imrie, 1985), 8.
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and chromatically altered versions of the same note. An F-natural in the voice in measure

16 would have broken Sanz’s fifth rule because of the subsequent F-sharp in the bass.

Keeping in mind the fact that the topic of figured bass is afforded but one page in the

entire mainstream theoretical corpus of seventeenth-century Spain, one realizes how

helpful it is to examine music as it existed in practice. The guitar was also kept separate

from the theory books, which took liturgical music to be their primary topic of inquiry.

Observing the harmonic principles of figured bass in Spain, one finds they were lagging

behind contemporaneous practice, as well as embodying characteristics of the music that

fostered much of the guitar repertory. I am referring specifically to the harmonic

progressions of the guitar repertory, which are defined by their steady, almost bland

essence. Simple consonances prove vital to the codification of accompaniment practices

that were, up until the Spanish guitar methods, the domain of folk musicians and

Classically inspired monodists.

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Example 43. Hidalgo, “Tened, parad, suspended, elementos,” mm. 1-21.'450

1. Tened, parad, suspended, elementos

Solo humano Juan Hidalgo

Texto: Agustin de Salazar y Torres

Transcripcion: Luis Robledo

Estribillo

ITiple]

[Acom-
pafia-
miento]

450. Juan Hidalgo, ‘Tened, parad, suspended, elementos,” in Tonos a lo divino y

a lo humano en el Madrid barroco, ed. Luis Robledo Estaire (Madrid: Alpuerto, 2004),
81.
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Rule six offers more unwavering policy on counterpoint. This sixth guideline

requires two notes of at least the length of half a measure. The second note must be

approached by ascending fifth, descending fourth, or descending second. The first note is

accompanied first with the prescribed consonance, then with a sixth and an augmented

fourth. As opposed to the preparation-suspension-resolution model presented before,

rule-six dissonance makes use of neighbor and passing tones. Refer to the second half

note of the highest voice of each illustration.

Example 44. Modem transcription of two of the five illustrations of rule six 451

$ -<sp-
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m TE
to :

The dissonances above do not appear in the practice exercises of Sanz, a sample

of which appears in example 38. Rarely does his bass make the movement required for

451. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 34r.

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this rule to show itself. In search of sources outside of Instrvccion, I thought first of the

frequent use of plagal harmony to close movements of sacred music. But these cadences

from Morales, Josquin, and Victoria do not exhibit the same approach to counterpoint. In

the following excerpt from Morales, the only dissonance within the ascending fifth of the

bass is a brief major ninth.

Example 45. The final cadence to the Sancta et immaculata virginitas of Morales.452

. i w ^ n.:l ==a

tu - o < |-+-
jre-mi-o con-* tu.l
f - >\ ■ ' sti.
.--- _ J.....
.. ’***..... ....T... ' ..... 1. .. ...“ 1.... "
H------»- --p----i---- -
y *..i
• o gre -i mi , o con- - tu-If sti.
-s t i, con * - tu - if - sti.

452. Cristobal de Morales, “Sancta et immaculata virginitas,” in Nicolas

Gomberti musica cum quatuor vocibus (vulgo Motecta . . . ) Liber Primus (Venice:
1541), transcribed and ed. Martyn Imrie (London: Bruno Turner, 1980), 8.
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Example 46. Josquin, Mille regretz, final cadence.453

,n . ,___ . .___ 35 , , , ,___ ,__ I

ver m brief mes jours def . fi - ner, brief mes jours def - ft - ner, brief mes jours de - f i - nei

& - f f .......... ■
... i ...•••: " t l . .... 4 ------i - j ........ |— - 1 - j- J j -- [J ... --4- , | j ... | ...- t — -+..... 1 | ..... -4—
_ me ver - ra brief mes jours def - fi _ def - f i - ner, brief mes jours def - fi
ner, brief mes jou rs . ner
■ )............... [.. —~hi J. W m 4 ---- mr~..------- )« -------- 4".............. - J '."4.. "'4 1■|'4 " — 4........~fc[~
...... 4p J ... ................
p ) * d * J > - 4™rt... ~h=............. ; !" - Ji i z :—■ *—«—■-_:S —«=*--
” mes jours def - f i - ner, brief mes jours def - fi - ner,brief mes jours def - f i - ner, brief mes jours def - f i - ner

brie f mes jours def - fi - ner3brief mes jours def - fi - ner, brief mes jou rs def - fi - ner.

Josquin was indispensable to the musical development of Morales, and that of

Spain in general. This final cadence to the chanson Mille regretz does not match the

guidelines of Sanz either. In example 47 (below), one will observe that the final cadence

of the motet Ascendens Christus in Altum by Victoria differs from Sanz’s theory.

453. Josquin des Prez, “Mille regretz” in Cristobal de Morales: Missa mille
regretz, transcribed and ed. Martyn Imrie (Isle of Lewis, Scotland: Vanderbeek & Imrie,
1983), 4.
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Example 47. Victoria, final cadence of the prima pars of the motet Ascendens
Christus.454

Example 48. Morales, Sancta et immaculata virginitas, mm. 18-23.455

454. Victoria, Ascendens, 8.

455. Morales, “Sancta,” 3.
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Measure 23 of this excerpt from Morales (ex. 48) contains a passing augmented

fourth on the second half of beat two in the alto. The sixth required by Sanz’s rule is also

present (m. 21, beat two of the tenor). In measure 94 example 49, the passing dissonance

between D in the bass and G-sharp in the alto relates to rule six. Again, the sixth is

present (between the bass and the tenor).

Example 49. Morales, Sancta et immaculata virginitas, mm. 90-95.456

456. Morales, “Sancta,” 6.

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Example 50. This portion of the Agnus Dei from the Misa exsultet caelum of Comes
contains counterpoint similar to the teachings of rule six (m. 9).457

457. Juan Bautista Comes, “Misa Exsultet caelum,” in Juan Bautista Comes
Masses: Part One, Masses for One and Two Choirs, ed. Greta J. Olson (Madison, WI: A-
R, 1999), 126.
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Example 51. La purpura de la rosa contains a pertinent example. See the descending
fourth in the bass and passing augmented fourth in the voice.458

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v r i
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muer - tea quien__ la vi - da di.
r-tw v ...
nr u
n> \ ........ 1 1
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Sl.................. d --5 -------- L

Concluding a survey of the music that extends further than the extracts provided

above, one finds that, with regard to Sanz’s rule, most instances in the repertory—even if

they are not always exact replicas of the counterpoint of Sanz—are found while the bass

is in descending stepwise motion. Contrapuntal conservatism is demonstrated through

stepwise motion in the bass as well as stepwise motion in the voice with which the

dissonant interval is formed. Rule six is not necessarily a cadence formula. It may be

employed in the middle of a phrase.

Similar to the letters of approval, which validate Instrvccion in the eyes of Church

and state, a strict, perhaps anachronistic set of counterpoint lessons is understandable

when one puts the treatise into its proper context. The erudite theoretical writings of

Spain at the time are, when examined against concurrent practices, nothing short of

458. Torrejon y Velasco and Hidalgo, libretto De la Barca, La purpura, 71.

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antique.459Thus, Sanz falls in line with the older schools of thought, but does not fail to

include a few hints of modem style.

459. Donald W. Forrester, “An Introduction to Seventeenth-Century Spanish

Music Theory Books,” Journal of Research in Music Education 21, no. 1 (1973): 67,
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3343980.
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Chapter Seven:

Figured-Bass Rules Seven through Twelve

Rule seven of the figured-bass teachings of Sanz treats bass-line movement by

ascending fourth or descending fifth in the context of a cadence. This rule is basically a

repetition of the first section of rule three, which deals with closed cadences. The main

idea is that no unprepared fourths are allowed. Additionally, given the choice, an

accompanist should opt for a seven-six over a four-three suspension. Like fourths, all

sevenths must be prepared with consonances: third, fifth, or sixth.

Possible exceptions to this rule may be found as early as Bias. In recitative and

styles of homophony that imitate speech, preparation of dissonance is often relaxed.

Since this easing of the rules is more easily traced in secular than sacred music, one must

infer that Sanz aims to please an ecclesiastical readership. On top of finding a more

progressive treatment of dissonance in secular music, one may note the word choice of

Sanz as he refers to making music in an ensemble. Warning against the dangers of

combining sevenths and fourths, he writes, “If you do not do it this way [keep seven-six

and four-three suspensions separate], then the instrumentalist [accompanist] can turn an

entire chapel sour.”460 Below, the final cadence to the romance setting Estavase el

aldeana by Bias displays forward-thinking compositional technique.

460. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 30v: “ji no lo hazen afsi, echa a perder el
Inftrumentifta vna Capillar brackets mine.
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Example 52. Bias, “Estavase el Aldeana,” mm. 45-49. 461

con su_£s - po so ce - na quien

sU la me dia no - che ve ■ %

The notes of what musicians of today would call a diminished triad converge on

beat two of the antepenultimate measure, measure 47. This includes an unprepared

augmented fourth between the alto (second from bottom) and first tiple (top). The word

pensava (second verse) in the penultimate and final measures, 48 and 49, shows the stark

rearticulation of a perfect fourth between the lowest and highest voices. Though the tenor

(bottom) provides some stability with a brief E pedal point, there is no doubt Sanz’s

seventh rule was broken fifty years before it was written. Other instances in which

461. Juan Bias, “Estavase el Aldeana,” in Etzion, Cancionero, 43.

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dissonance is not traditionally prepared occur throughout this piece, many of them within

phrases, not at cadences.

Robert Samuel Marcus writes, “[Murcia’s] Resumen and Sanz’s Instrvccion

represent the highest points of development of Spanish guitar accompaniment

manuals.”462 Published forty years after Instrvccion, in 1714, the continuo treatise of

Spanish guitarist Santiago de Murcia (1673-1739) points to a slightly less rigid doctrine

of counterpoint. Marcus notes Sanz’s fondness for basing his guidelines on the movement

of the bass. Murcia, in the introductory text to the figured-bass realizations, is not

concerned with the bass as a point of departure; rather, “his concern is always with the

intervals that will appear above it in the realization.”463

Murcia recommends the student already be educated in composition so that the

teachings on figured bass will make sense. Sanz, though he acknowledges the extreme

difficulty of the subject matter, seeks to guide his readers through the process more than

Murcia does. Yet the two method books have some important points in common. Both

lack notated ties in the guitar tablature, a topic the present study brings up on pages 237-

41. From an analysis of the specifics of musical notation, an effort akin to humanist

textual criticism and evaluations of translation, one supports an argument for the

transitional role of the guitar in music theory and composition. The rearticulation of

462. Robert Samuel Marcus, ‘The Use of the Five-Course Guitar Spanish Guitar
as a Continuo Instrument as Described in Spanish Treatises: 1596-1764” (master’s
thesis), California State University, Fullerton, 1978: 55, http://0-search
.proquest.com.opac .sfsu.edu/docview/302944354?accountid=13802.
463. Ibid., 61.
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intervals traditional counterpoint demands tied may be seen as an intermediary between

Renaissance and Baroque styles. Rearticulation also implicates the popular, strummed

style, an important precursor to formal figured bass on the Iberian Peninsula as well as in

Spanish Naples.

Example 53. One of the practical examples of Murcia’s treatise.464

, "v 9 r'
rt-Z— £ |
o u P— t ' ~ = h ~ r
t+ t - * * -- 4

_— ;;Q.. . ■•3 2. 0
r.ll.A - a ..-..... .... O' —0—

^ 1 -1 1- M - j - t - r a - i

Rule eight picks up from where rule seven leaves off with regard to how to apply

a four-three suspension to a cadence in which the bass leaps down a fifth or up a fourth.

One must note that Sanz refers specifically to situations in which the antepenultimate

note of the bass line descends to the penultimate note by a skip of a third or a leap of a

fifth. The more general lesson is that, for a cadence whose antepenultimate bass note

forms a dissonant interval with the note a perfect fourth above the penultimate note, there

are special procedures to follow.

464. Santiago de Murcia, Refumen de Acompanar la Parte con la Guitarra

(Madrid: 1714), 45.
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If the note value of the penultimate note is large enough, and a major third above

this note is permissible in the given composition, then Sanz suggests an upper neighbor-

tone cadential fourth.

Example 54. One solution to the problem presented in rule eight.

ip § n ii

But when note values do not allow for the neighboring fourth, a seventh may be prepared

with a tie and resolved by step to a third above the final bass note. Ironically, the guitar

tablature for the musical example of this rule is corrupted by an unprepared seventh. At

first, it seemed likely to me this was an error on the part of Sanz; looking closer at the

potential fingerings required of the guitarist if the voice leading were entirely consistent

with the textual instructions, it is not impossible the guitar accompanist received a bit of

unannounced leeway as a result of instrumental limitations.

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Example 55. The figured bass is shown above the guitar tablature.465

There are no accidentals in the signature here. The bass line of the cadence begins on G,

descends a minor third to E, and then a perfect fifth to A. The guitar tablature offers the

following realization of the figured bass:

Example 56. An unprepared seventh in the illustration of the rule prohibiting the
selfsame interval.466

465. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 34r.

466. Ibid.
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In the first harmony, the third and second courses are open, sounded together with the

first course, which is closed at fret three. This chord shape is germane to the other

applications of the figured-bass rules in that it shows a preference for open strings. When

the required notes cannot be found on open strings, rarely does the left hand move past

the sixth fret. The majority of the music is produced on the lowest third of the fret board.

The first of the three harmonies in example 56 exhibits another common attribute

of Sanz’s treatise, that the third of the chord takes priority over the fifth. The minor

seventh above the penultimate bass note in example 56—D above E—could have been

prepared by forfitting the B on the open second course and closing this same course on

third fret. See figure 12 below.

Figure 12. The third, second, and first courses would be sounded, creating the harmony
G-D-G.
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In spite of this possibility, Sanz maintains the B. This concession of traditional voice

leading in exchange for accentuating the major sonority above the root of the triad, G,

points to a growing preference for vertically conceived blocks of harmony. As Russell

asserts, the guitar led the way to a new musical aesthetic.

Both a prepared D above E and triadically inspired B above G are available in a

closed-position chord that employs the fourth-course fifth fret, the third-course fourth

fret, and the second-course third fret (see fig. 13). Although it is possible to sound the

raised subfinal G-sharp and the bass note, E, on the fourth and fifth courses, respectively,

such a stretch involving such high frets and no open courses would be entirely

anomalous. This unexpected fingering, shown in figure 14, would also be very difficult to

execute while sightreading a figured bass line.

Figure 13. Fully closed chords without accidentals are not common in the figured bass
treatise of Sanz.
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Figure 14. The first finger remains on the second course third fret, preparing the minor
seventh D above E.

One can see from this exposition of harmony and hand position that the language

of figured bass for the guitar in the time of Sanz, and into the eighteenth century with

Murcia, was based on undemanding chord shapes that held much in common with the

alfabeto system. Executed mostly in the open position of the guitar, these simple chords

would be easy to improvise above a bass line read at sight, or with minimal preparation

time. The guitar in particular required flexibility in how the music was to be realized. As

one will see from the following illustrations, transposing bass notes up or down an octave

was a necessary practice because of the guitar’s limited range, which, according to Sanz,

did not even reach the bottom of the graves, the notes comprising the lowest of three

vocal registers. The following realization in modem notation (ex. 58) conveys that the

lower of the two strings comprising the course on which the first bass note would have
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been played would have sounded an octave below written pitch. This results in an

inversion of the descending perfect fifth B-E in the figured-bass notation (ex. 57).

Example 57. The second of rule eight’s two illustrations.467

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■nfejrCM'i

Example 58. The second of rule eight’s two illustrations, in modem notation.468

Rule nine continues the discourse smoothly by employing the bass line of the first

example of rule eight. The ninth rule calls forth the topic of musica ficta, specifically the

467. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 34r.

468. Ibid.
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question of when to raise the subfinal. Discussing the cadenga sfugita, Sanz calls into

question some of his earlier statements as well as reinforcing his previous thinking with

scrupulous teachings on counterpoint. In mainstream polyphonic theory, a cadenga

sfugita (evaded cadence) creates the impression of leading toward a perfect cadence—a

cadence whose ending interval is either a perfect unison or perfect octave—but does not

provide the same finality a perfect cadence does. This denial of repose can be achieved in

a number of ways. Some of these ways deal with replacing the perfect unison or perfect

octave with other consonances; some rely on rhythmic stratification or rests in a defining

voice of the texture.469The compositional techniques are many. The evaded cadence is by

no means a single arrangement.

The main idea of rule nine refines rule eight. According to rule nine, unless the

cadence is a claufula final (literally, final cadence), the penultimate note of the

descending bass line G-E-A—Sanz also uses F-D-G—must be harmonized with a minor

third. In subtle defiance of rule nine, the language of rule eight leaves room for a major

third over the penultimate note, even in cadences that are not claufulas finales. Thus, it is

possible that claufula final refers here not to the last cadence of a piece, but, rather, to a

469. Markus Neuwirth, “Fuggir la Cadenza, or the Art of Avoiding Cadential

Closure,” in What Is a Cadence?: Theoretical and Analytical Perspectives on Cadences
in the Classical Repertoire, ed. Markus Neuwirth and Pieter Berge (Leuven, Belgium:
Leuven University Press, 2015), 120-22.
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perfect cadence. This type of cadence could occur at some point in a piece other than at

the very end, usually at an important pause in the text.470

Rule eight also employs the Spanish word final in reference to a cadence, in a

discussion of what is commonly known as a Picardy third, a cadence in which a

chromatic major third is sounded instead of the diatonic minor third above the final.
0

Again, Picardy thirds could occur in situations besides the very last cadence of a piece,

and may not necessarily require perfect cadences. “Ay corazon amante” (ca. 1665) by

Hidalgo provides clues of an internal Picardy third, but an examination of the original

score reveals the major third is not required by the composer.471

Be this as it may, the authenticity of playing a major third is not altogether lost.

The recording of “Ay corazon amante” featuring this particular Picardy third was put

together by Jordi Savall (b. 1941), the prolific and widely respected performer of early

Spanish music.472As an early-music specialist, Savall has had much exposure to musica

ficta and the appropriate applications thereof. In this particular case, he makes the artistic

decision to execute a Picardy third on a perfect cadence. Bias notates a chromatic major

third at what might be an internal perfect cadence in “Desiertos campos” (p. 249). It is

necessary, in my opinion, to acknowledge the possibility that this cadence in the Bias

470. Neuwirth, “Fuggir la Cadenza,” 120.

471. Juan Hidalgo, “Ay corazon amante,” MS M-Caja 3880, Biblioteca Nacional
de Espana, Madrid, http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer .vm?id=0000079527&page=l.
472. Juan Hidalgo, “Ay corazon amante,” Jordi Savall and Hesperion XX,
recorded September 10,1976, London: Virgin Classics 7243 5 61964 2 1,2001, compact
disc, 00:00:35, http://trove.nla.gov .au/work/9727705?q&versionld=l 1293259.
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would not qualify as a perfect cadence. This cadence does not take the modal final, C, for

its lowest voice.

In rule nine, the cadence is evaded by keeping the subfinal a whole-step below the

final as opposed to raising it a half-step. In an evaded cadence of this type with the bass

line G, E, A, the E would be harmonized with a G and a B. As in rule five, which also

deals with false relations, Sanz claims the ear will be the best judge of theoretical

reasoning: “I leave the reasoning to the ear itself, which requires it [the music] be this

way, and despises the alternative.”473 Is justifying a condemnation of startling

chromaticism by citing the collective ear musically logical?

In the eighth of the strummed-style guidelines, Sanz supports the labyrinth of

falsas with the following thought process: the sonorities disobey the rules of

counterpoint, but find their way into cultured music and are perceived by only those with

trained ears.474The question of whether the statement on recognizing incorrect dissonance

treatment by ear holds up in every context aside, one cannot deny that aural judgement of

contrapuntal theory in action had a bearing on shaping rules and applications. The

practice of matching textual affective states to musical procedures that conform to, or

deviate from, what is thought to be pleasing to the ear—especially at cadences or in

evasive cadential motion—increases the power of human perception, both individual and

collective, to inform the policy of the erudite. The philosophy behind the changing

473. Sanz, Instrvccion,fol. 3lr: “la razon la dexo al mifmo oido, que lo pide afsi,
v aborrece lo contrario.”
474. Ibid., fol. lOv.
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treatment of dissonance from the Renaissance to the Baroque is seemingly endless and at

times confusing. About this period of development Albert Cohen writes, ‘The mind

continued to question what the ear had begun to accept.”475

In the text portions of his figured-bass rules, Sanz did little to address how

contemporaneous practice might have strayed from his teachings. His musical examples

make some attempts to fill in the blanks of his writing, but also raise some questions.

Textual explanation alone would not suffice, and music without theoretical discussion

would be cryptic at best. In its fusion of assiduousness and practicable but liberal

syntheses of theory, Instrvccion continues upon, and yet rises above, the previous vihuela

and guitar methods of early-modern Spain.

Native Spanish song is united with contrapuntal artifice in rule ten. This rule

offers an approach to harmonizing bass ligatures. Proporcion, which designates triple

meter, is linked to typically Spanish compositions, and rightly so. The seventeenth-

century villancico repertory is characterized by triple meter, following the secular-sacred

crossover styles set forth by Guerrero in the late-sixteenth century.

Unfortunately, Sanz does not entirely succeed in his efforts to coordinate triple­

meter Spanish dance styles with chains of suspensions in which the bass is tied across the

bar line. It is a case of rhetoric’s getting too far ahead of foundational information, the

latter being easily accessible if Sanz could provide a wider web of proof to support his

475. Albert Cohen, “La Supposition and the Changing Concept of Dissonance in
Baroque Theory,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 24, no. 1 (1971): 63,
http://0-www.jstor.org.opac.sfsu.edu/stable/830893.
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ideas. Focusing on placing dissonance on appropriate beats and resolving suspensions

according to custom, the tenth rule lacks practicability in that bass lines in the popular

Spanish style so often move by leap.

Example 59. The last sixteen measures of “El picaro de cupido” by Dur6n.476

18

23

476. Sebastian Duron, “El Picaro de Cupido,” in Tonos a solo y a duo, ed. Scala
Aretina (Spain: Scala Aretina, 2001), 10.
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Beginning in measure 20 of this secular melody by Dur6n, one may observe

several ties across the bar line in the bass, none of which bear suspensions. This liberal

use of homophonic hemiola is typical of Spanish song, both secular and sacred. The

rhythmic motive dotted-quarter-eighth-quarter so central to the villancico tradition, as

well as to Instrvccion, appears in the Dur6n above, though with longer note values, in

measures 15 and 17. In measure 25 of example 59, one finds a very atypically resolved

dissonance. The major second G-A moves in direct motion to octave Fs.

Example 60. Hidalgo, Celos, aun del aire matan, mm. 302-13.477

plo des-cu-bre del do - ra - do cha-pi-tel. al - me - nas y ba - la -us - tres; mas no·

... ...
veo gas sin o - fren - da. De_y- sas be - lias flo
t I

... ...

ra - mi - 4 lie - te, y
L
tras mf con to~ • ·Cios su - be; pues !
I
I

... ... ... ...

477. Juan Hidalgo, libretto by Pedro Calder6n de Ia Barca, Celos, aun del aire
matan, ed. Francese Bonastre (Madrid: Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales,
2000), measures 302-13.
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In opera as well, one finds derivation from the theory of Sanz. The example

above, an arioso-like portion of the opera Celos, aun del aire matan (1660), provides an

excellent aid to the study of figured-bass rule ten. From measures 308 to 309 and 310 to

311, the bass descends in stepwise motion. In rule ten, Sanz refers the student to his

previous guidelines if the bass leaps. The new information concerns a stepwise

descending bass.

According to Sanz, if a four-two harmony on the first of the measure’s three beats

is prepared by a tie in the bass, the accompanist should resolve the dissonant fourth

second to a fifth and a third, respectively. In measure 308 of the excerpt above (ex. 60),

Hidalgo shifts the metrical accent of the triple meter established by another of Sanz’s

favorite rhythms, which appears in the Hidalgo as a whole-note on beat one followed by

four half-notes over beats two and three.478The rhythmic surprise is a standard hemiola

pattern, three groups of two beats within the flow created by regularly recurring groups of

three beats. Rather than the alternating tension and release inherent in chains of

suspensions, Hidalgo assigns imperfect consonances to each bass note in the descending

stepwise passage.

The first of these bass notes forms a major third with the tiple. The tiple ascends

to form a dissonant perfect fourth, which resolves by skip as the bass descends by step.

This does not conform to the treatments of dissonance advocated by Sanz. It is significant

that this rhythmic disruption occurs on the words bellas flores (beautiful flowers). Here,

478. See ex. 9, p. 99 of this study.

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one finds a case of madrigalian text expression alongside Spanish folk rhythms. Francese

Bonastre recounts of Hidalgo that the tonos of this composer “brought him immediate

recognition thanks to the particularly expressive intensity achieved through rhetorical

devices, as well as the delicate equilibrium between Italian models—true motors of the

genesis and expansion of the Baroque in Europe—and contemporaneous Spanish music’s

own capacity for evolution and experimentation.”479The term torn may be used to refer

to a number of Spanish secular polyphonic song forms. It is important to reiterate that the

music of many tonos was fitted with sacred poetry in order to be employed during

Catholic worship.480

Constituting a movement distinct from the polyphonic artifice of previous

generations, early-Baroque Spanish composers of sacred music in Latin absorbed

techniques from vernacular styles. The following is an excerpt from the motet Beatus vir

by Comes.

479. Francese Bonastre, introductory study to Hidalgo, Celos, ix: “fe otorgaron
un inmediato reconocimento gracias a la peculiar intensidad expresiva lograda con la
aplicaeidn de la retorica, y con el logro de un delicado equilibrio entre los modelos
italianos—verdadero motor del nacimiento y expansion del barroco por Europa—y la
propia capacidad evolutiva y experimentadora de la musica espanola de su tiempo.”
480. For more on the tono, see Mariano Lambea, ed., La musica y la poesi'a en
cancionerospolifdnicos del siglo XVII, vol. 1, Libro de tonos humanos (1655-1656)
(Barcelona: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientfficas, Claret, 2000), 65-67.
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Example 61. Comes, Beatus vir, mm. 124-38. 481

net in sae-

p
net

$
net

net in sa e -

f ? f T ' f ?' !' -bOJ 3 ir r

net in sae - cu - lum sae cu - li i

tn f

■ j* w
net in sae - cu - lum sae . cu lis.

**/

net in sae cu - lum sae

m m •?: cu - li:

m f

J. J f'Tr i--xl igfrf-f p

net in sae - cu - lum sae cu - lis

481. Juan Bautista Comes, Beatus vir, ed. Robert L. Goodale (New York:
Schirmer, 1965), 27-29.
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Syncopated homophony blends with brief points of imitation in example 61.

Bouncy rhythms predominate. The excerpt shows many instances of ties over the bar line

in the bass, but only one is comparable to the counterpoint teachings of Sanz. In measure
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129, the second part from the bottom in the first choir takes on the role of the lowest

voice. From an A-minor triad, a four-two dissonance is sounded as the uppermost part

and bottom part descend from E to D and C to B, respectively. The A in the part second

from the bottom, which is the lowest-sounding voice for the moment, resolves the

dissonance by descending stepwise to G.

The fact that the point of imitation at measure 128 is identical to the homophonic

motive at measure 124 links contrapuntal to homophonic vernacular style. The rhythmic

interest of native Spanish music, notably, hemiola and syncopation, abound here in a

piece with Latin text.482The motive on in saeculum (forever) frustrates the metrical first-

beat accent. At cornu ejus (his horns), an entirely homophonic texture sounds trochaic

divisions of three groups of three beats each. Duple meter is obscured by a traditional

folk-dance rhythm.

482. Louise K. Stein, “Spain, 1600-1640,” in European Music: 1520-1640, ed.

James Haar (Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom: Boydell, 2006), 470.
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Example 62. Victoria, close of the first Kyrie from the Missa Ascendens Christus.483

10
~D

1'-' I
Ky - ri- e e - ~i - son.
0
1'-'
0
- 1e,·. son, Ky - ri - e e - I lei - son.

1'-'
-e -
. Ky - ri
I
e - - - - ~
- tei - son.

........
e- - . lei. son, Ky- ri - e e - lei - son.
I
"
I ;:;
- e -- - - - e- -son.

The close of the first Kyrie from the Missa Ascendens Christus by Victoria (ex.

62) offers an alternative to Sanz's treatment of a descending stepwise bass tied across the

bar line. Although Victoria did not employ bar lines in his original parts, the tactus is

unaltered by the bar lines in the modem edition. It is important to note that Sanz employs

bar lines throughout lnstrvccion.

483. Victoria,Ascendens, 13.

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Example 63. Juan Pujol (ca. 1573-1626), Regina caeli, mm. 9-12. The second measure
of this excerpt contains a two-three suspension between the bass and the tenor.484

Example 64. The Benedictus of Guerrero’s Missa Sancta et immaculata demonstrates a

common tied-bass figure from m. 83 to m. 84

484. Juan Pujol, Regina caeli, ed. Higinio Angles (Barcelona: Library of
Catalonia, 1926), 153.
485. Francisco Guerrero, Missa Sancta et immaculata (Paris: Nicolas du Chemin,
1566), ed. Bruno Turner (Lochs, Isle of Lewis, Scotland: Vanderbeek & Imrie, 1998), 31.
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A device found in the music of other Spanish contrapuntalists as well, assigning

the tied bass note only consonant intervals on the downbeat of the new measure is

fundamentally different from the Sanz. The tie from measure 88 to 89 in the fifth part of

example 65, which sounds the lowest for the moment, is met with consonance. The

Agenda defunctorum a sacred piece in Latin by Vasquez (ex. 66), contains four examples

of the bass line described in rule ten, none of which meet with dissonance on the

downbeat of the measure into which the lowest voice—in this case it is the tenor—is tied.

Two instances are shown below.

Example 65. An excerpt from the secular polyphonic piece “Gracias al cielo doy” by
Juan Vasquez (ca. 1500-ca. 1560).486

486. Juan Vasquez, “Gracias al cielo doy,” in Recopilacion de Sonetosy

Villancicos a quatro y a cinco (Seville: 1560), ed. Higinio Angles (Barcelona: Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Instituto Espanol de Musicologia, 1946), 18-19.
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Example 66. Wsquez, Agenda defunctorum, mm. 4-11,487

487. Juan Vasquez, Agenda defunctorum (Seville: 1556), ed. Samuel Rubio
(Madrid: Real Musical, 1975), 27.
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Example 67. Morales, Sancta et immaculata virginitas, mm. 84—89

in mu - ti - « - - ri - bus ,in m u- ti -

While one will not find ties across the bar lines above (ex. 67), procedures very

similar to those recommended by Sanz are manifest.489 Measure 88 shows a two-three

suspension between the bass and the tenor, and a nine-ten suspension between the bass

and the tiple. The seven-six suspension between the bass and the alto in the same measure

echoes the ideas of Sanz. A testament to Spanish preservation of past theoretical

teachings, the music of Morales represents Spanish sacred style from a century and a half

before the work of Sanz.

488. Morales, “Sancta,” 5.

489. Although I have not been able to find the original parts of Morales, none of
the interpretations of this piece by Morales I have examined has strayed from the tactus
corresponding to the barlines of the modem edition.
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Example 68. Josquin, Gloria from the Missa de beata Virgine, mm. 165-80.490

Josquin greatly influenced the internationalization of Spanish polyphony, and is

very important in understanding the music of Morales. Measures 172-74 of example 68

include consonant harmonizations of bass notes tied onto strong beats.

An examination of various genres of Spanish music pertinent to the generation of

Sanz leads to the conclusion that rule ten seeks to legitimize Spanish music in triple

meter, a meter typical of popular song. While none of the examples above meets the

490. Josquin des Prez, Missa de beata Virgine (Fossombrone, Marche, Italy:
Petrucci, 1514), ed. Nigel Davison (Newton Abbot, Devon, England: Antico, 1993), 11.
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requirements of rule ten thoroughly, many of them contain fundamental elements,

namely, either the four-five or two-three suspension.

The intent of the above exposition of primary musical sources is not to discredit

Sanz, or prove that his analysis of Spanish style is wrong. A study of the music above as

well as a clarification of the language of rule ten results in the understanding that Sanz

has proposed a contrapuntally decorated Spanish style of homophony. Like the union of

strummed and plucked styles of guitar playing, musical erudition, specifically the

controlled application of dissonance, is brought to the popular homophonic idiom.

Few examples of the popular Spanish repertory from the generations closest to

Sanz convey the theory suggested in Instrvccion. Rule ten informs the reader that the

four-two suspensions will fit over a bass note tied across the bar line, not that they are the

norm. Technically, the writing does not imply the prevalence of these suspensions; but,

persisting with topics of the discussion on rule nine, Sanz promotes his ideas by opining,

‘This method of accompaniment brings much harmony to the ear.”491 Appealing to the

tastes of musicians, presumably the learned, Sanz aims to revise popularly inspired

Spanish music. As a call to revive and apply principles of learned generations past, rule

ten sits comfortably within the bounds of humanist thought.

Rule eleven appears to be straightforward, but raises some potentially interesting

questions on composition. Generally speaking, the reader gains only the notice that, in

491. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 31v: “caufa mucha armonia al oido efte genero de
acompanar.”
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order to accompany in the right mode, the figured-bass player must look to the last

harmony of a given piece, not the first. The reason for this? “Many times the parts enter

singing, and the bass waits, responding in imitation beginning from the diapente, or fifth

of the mode.”492Thus, figured bass is placed within an imitative polyphonic context.

Discussing details of how to accompany textures commonly associated with

sacred vocal music is not as out of place as it may seem. The Libro de tonos humanos

(1655-1656) is one of several seventeenth-century songbooks that relate to rule eleven.

Figured-bass accompaniment appears several times in the collections of tonos from the

period. Etzion ponders the likely impact of the sacred polyphonic villancico on the

compositions of the Libro de tonos humanos, a shift in stylistic influence.493 Before,

sacred music imitated the rhythmic and chordal sounds of the popular villancico. Now,

transformed by its use in Church, the villancico was returning to the music of the

theater.494

A comparison of “jQue bien sienten mis suspiros!” with “En una concha de

Venus,” both anonymous compositions from the Libro de tonos humanos, illustrates the

first part of the issue presented in rule eleven. “jQue bien” begins with a clear

establishment of the G-major triad for the first line of poetry, appearing to adhere to

492. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol 31 v: “muchas vezes entran las partes cantando, y
efpera el baxo, y entra imitando con el diapente, d quinta del tono.”
493. Judith Etzion, ‘The Spanish Polyphonic Cancioneros, c. 1580-c. 1650: A
Survey of Literary Content and Textual Concordances,” Revista de Musicologi'a 11, no. 1
(1988): 76, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20795186.
494. Ibid.
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Mode VII in spite of the raised seventh degree in the signature. The first phrase, which

ends in measure 5 before rests in every voice, displays an effective use of expressive

dissonance on suspiros (sighs). The descending half-step, or sigh motive, highlights the

text. This word painting is realized with only notes from Mode VII.

Example 69. Anonymous, “;Que bien sienten mis suspiros,” mm. 1-8.495

mis sus - pi ros la gran - de

mis sus - pi - ros la gran de - za dc

495. Anonymous, “jQue bien sienten mis suspiros!,” in La musica y lapoesia en

cancionerospolifdnicos del siglo XVII, vol. 1, Libro de tonos humanos (1655-1656), ed.
Mariano Lambea (Barcelona: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Claret,
2000), 129.
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As the tono draws to a close, Mode VII in both transposed and untransposed

forms interweave. The transposed version of the mode, D Mixolydian, has the final word,

reached by a perfect cadence that, due to the movement from the fifth to the first scale

degree in the bass, essentially eliminates the possibility of the final harmony’s being

heard as a chord built on the fifth degree of untransposed Mode VII.

Example 70. Anon, “;Que bien,” mm. 50-79.'496

me, que sus ce - los me bas - tan. me

me, que sus ce - los me bas

bas tan pa ra ma - tar

ilil ce - los me bas - tan, me bas tan. que sus ce - los me

rr~
que sus ce - los me bas pa - ra

tan, que sus ce - los me

496. Anon., “jQue bien,” 131-32.

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75
o\

cc - !os me bas - tan

wpa ra ma - tar me.
On
*1ce-----------
- los me tan pa ra ma me.
s O

te - los me bas - tan pa ra ma - tar me.

On

me bas - tan pa ra ma - tar

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“En una concha” bears the same signature as “jQue bien.” The prominent G-

major triad at the outset is also a point in common between the two tonos. “En una

concha,” unlike “jQue bien,” employs F-sharps in the first phrase—not as a raised

seventh degree to strengthen the cadence, but, rather, within the phrase itself. This may

result in a sound more tonal than modal. Judging by the toneset, it might also be heard as

a transposed Mode V or VI, a Lydian mode with a C final.

Vocal ranges that, instead of outlining the fmal-to-final octave, place the final

somewhere between the higher and lower limits, lead one to believe the first phrase is

composed in Mode VIII, Hypomixolydian. This approach to ambitus is seen most clearly

in the second tiple and bass voices. The soprano {tiple) and tenor traditionally indicate the

ambitus of the mode. Here, the first tiple and alto do not complete the octave, leaving

room for interpretations that may identify the ranges of these voices to be plagal. As one

will observe below, these voices are kept within a narrow interval either above or below

the final, G, through much of the piece. The first phrase cadences on a C-major triad at

the word Amor (love). C is the tenor of Mode VIII, a note that would be expected to

appear frequently within phrases as well as at cadential arrival points.

The refrain touches upon several modes, which, recalling the modulatory

techniques informing the composition of La purpura de la rosa, are revealed through

motion around the circle of fifths. After a spirited journey through cadences on C-, G-,
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E-, A-, and D-major triads, the torn arrives back at its initial mode. One observes a clear

relationship to the text of this passage, ‘Take in the sails and lift the oars.”497 Returning to

a G-major triad, the four-measure coda comprised of only three notes—G, B, and D—

brings the galley to a point of repose after a wild journey at sea. At the bottom of

traditional vocal range, the low G in the bass sounds alone to close the piece. It is

confirmation of a safe return, or at least momentary peace.

Example 71. Anonymous, “En una concha de Venus,” mm. 1-7 498

cha dc Vc - nus, la nuc - va ma - dre de_A - mor.

cha de Ve - nus, la nue va ma - dre de_A - mor,

497. Anonymous, “En una concha de Venus,” in La musica y lapoesia, vol. 1, ed.
Lambea, 152-53: “amaina vela y leva remos”
498. Anon., “En una concha,” 150.
499. Anon., “En una concha,” 152-53.
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Like many of the pieces from the Libro de tonos humanos, the two discussed

above begin with homophonic declamation. Seeming to obviate the latter portion of the

warning of rule eleven, the mode in which many of the lowest voices enter is rarely

ambiguous—at least within the Libro. At the beginning of these pieces, the lowest voice

most often beings on the modal final. A greater cause of confusion is found at an

imitative section that begins after the first phrase.

“Quereros siempre mirar,” another anonymous tono in the Libro, cadences on a

G-major triad in measure 8 on the syllable rar of mirar (to see), as the example below

shows. This is the end of the first phrase of the piece. A brief ascending sequence ensues,

built on triads whose roots form a pattern of descending diatonic third followed by

ascending diatonic fourth. As the second descending leap of a diatonic third is completed,
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a point of imitation begins in the alto (second lowest voice, m. 11). It is worth noting that,

although the F-major triad may not be convincing as a modal center to which the music

has shifted because neither a fourth nor a fifth has resolved to F, the final and tenor of F

Lydian initiate the contrapuntal interest in the alto and bass (lowest voice), respectively.

Complicating matters further, the anonymous composer of “Quereros” changes to Mode

III for a cadence in measure 17.500 Between the first statement of the motive, which

begins from F (see the alto in m. 11), and the imperfect cadence in measure 17, each

subsequent voice starts from C. F is the final of Mode V, and C is the tenor of the same.

C is also the tenor of Mode III, which makes for smooth yet delicate transition, especially

if one wishes to provide a figured bass accompaniment.

500. This cadence is a good example of how a composer might apply a cadenga
sfugita.
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Example 73. Anonymous, “Quereros siempre mirar,” mm. 8-17.501

As is typical of romance texts beginning around 1625, the refrain of “Quereros”

contrasts metrically with the verses. Above (ex. 73), one will catch a glimpse of the

elaborate treatment composers usually gave the refrain.502These frequent shifts in mode

present a figured-bass player with a number of important decisions. The accompanist

must be careful to formulate bass figures from the upper voices. This should go without

501. Anonymous, “Quereros siempre mirar,” in La musica y la poesia, vol. 1, ed.

Lambea, 225-26.
502. Etzion, ‘The Spanish Polyphonic Cancioneros,” 72.
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saying, but the diatonic scale of figured-bass rule one, for example, could lead the

inexperienced accompanist astray.

After the cadence in measure 8, the harmony shifts from the escala diatonica

(diatonic scale) to the escala cromatica (chromatic scale) explained in rule one. If one

were not careful, the minor sixth above E, as prescribed by the diatonic scale, would

clash with the vocal parts. In short, “Quereros” is a testament to just how chromatically

far afield a tono from seventeenth-century Spain could venture. This piece begins and

ends in what one may be tempted to call C Ionian; during the compositional discourse, F-

sharp, G-sharp, C-sharp, and perhaps even B-flat draw one’s ear into various modal and

tonal territories.503

The twelfth and final rule aims to prepare the student for accompanying in the

chromaticized Italian style. Sanz refers to two types of chromatic composition, one with

sharps in the signature and one with flats. In agreement with the conventional placement

of accidentals put forth in figured-bass rule two, rule twelve discusses signatures with

either C-sharp and F-sharp or B-flat and E-flat.

Like rule eleven, rule twelve appears to be comprehensible and uncomplicated.

Sanz does not go much further than stating that, if a piece bears a signature with C-sharp

and F-sharp, the accompanist will play major thirds over A and D. For a piece whose

signature shows B-flat and E-flat, one must play minor thirds over G and C. Sanz does

503.1 am not stating that B-flat is absolutely valid because it appears in the cited
score as a suggestion from the editor.
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not identify these signatures to be signatures, key signatures, or any other technical term.

He simply notes that some pieces bear two sharps or two flats beside the clef. Because

theory was not yet tonal when Sanz was writing, I have employed the term signature.

Also like rule eleven, there is great significance behind what seem like mere passing

references.

It is mentioned in rule twelve that, for the signature with two sharps mentioned

above, one can imagine the diatonic mode on G a whole-step higher—in other words, a

transposed Mode VII or VIII, depending on the ambitus. For the signature with two flats,

Sanz states that one would do well to think in terms of Mode I or II transposed down a

whole-step. Thanks to the guitar’s having been tuned in equal temperament, a practice

dating back to the time of the vihuela’s predominance, transposition had long been a

staple of plucked-string aesthetics.

The works of Doizi de Velasco,504 Brizeno,505and Amat506 all incorporate

transposition. In 1995, Wolfgang Freis published a study on the transpositional

capabilities of the vihuela, noting that, while the vihuela was tuned to nominal pitch,

imagined tunings served to map intabulations of vocal polyphony. In an imagined tuning

Freis calls A-re, some of the final sonorities of the fantasias of Mudarra “seem analogous

to the natural modes or common transpositions.”507 In the same tuning, other final

504. Doizi de Velasco, Nvevo Metodo, 3-8.

505. Brizeno, Metodo, 13.
506. Amat, Guitarra, 23-28.
507. Freis, “Perfecting the Perfect Instrument,” 426.
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harmonies break with traditional soundscapes, resulting in a freely transposable idiom

employed by the other six vihuelists as well.

In one sense, the vihuela and guitar are humanistic instruments on account of their

simplicity and accessibility for hobbyists. Especially with the guitar, one is able to sing a

popular tune in any key. Discussions of which modes convey which affective states are

left aside, as are other expansive theoretical topics. The focus is on application.

Tensions between theory and practice may be seen in studies of Roman learning,

a culture so crucial to what has come to be known as Renaissance humanism. Gwynn

writes, ‘The history of Roman education is very largely the history of Cicero’s

intellectual growth, maturity, and influence.”508Cicero is directly pertinent to humanism

on the Iberian Peninsula through the vernacular translations of his works present there as

early as the first half of the fifteenth century, as well as through his rhetorical stylings,

models of Latin eloquence.509The evolution of education during the lifetime of Cicero

and early Spanish guitar traditions share comparable trajectories.

According to Gwynn, the democrats of Rome opposed the study and application

of Greek language and culture at the time when Cicero was beginning his schooling.

508. Gwynn, Roman Education, 59.

509. Jeremy N. H. Lawrance, “Humanism in the Iberian Peninsula,” in The
Impact of Humanism On Western Europe During the Renaissance, ed. Anthony
Goodman and Angus MacKay (London: Routledge, 1990), 220-35.
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These democrats considered Greek studies to be superfluous and unnecessarily

expensive.510 Greek rhetoric was the object of particular disdain.

Rhetoric was able to survive total censorship, and began to be taught in Latin. The

translation from Greek to the more mainstream Latin parallels the attitudes of the

anonymous author of the rhetoric textbook ad Herennium (ca. 84 BCE), one of the

earliest pieces of prose in Latin.511The author has no time for the overly theoretical

nature of Greek rhetoric. Gwynn reports this typically democratic anti-Hellenism: “[the

anonymous author] complains that Greek textbooks are pedantic and unpractical.”512

Armed with public-speaking skills reinforced by philosophical awareness, students of

Latin rhetoric would be prepared to debate contemporaneous issues of society. Gwynn

presents many historical examples that situate democratic thinkers at the helm of

educational systems of Latin rhetoric. Condemnations of rhetoric, the source of much

controversy in Greek and Roman academies since long before the time of Cicero, came

during the lifetime of this legendary orator from conservative aristocrats. Politics were

inseparable from educational reform.513

Juan de Valdes (ca. 1490-1541) brought forth his ideas on usage of the Castilian

language in Didlogo de la lengua (Dialogue on language, ca. 1535). The information on

Valdes supplied by Encyclopaedia Britannica is worth quoting for its insight into how

510. Gwynn, Roman Education, 59-60.

511. Ibid., 66-67.
512. Ibid., 67, brackets mine.
513. Ibid., 63-74.
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humanism might be defined in today’s world: “Dialogo de la lengua . . . treated of

Spanish style and language with that blend of wit, grace, learning, and common sense

that characterizes humanism at its best.”314 Context for the life and work of Valdes takes

shape through noting that Valdes himself, forging his own identity as an Erasmian thinker

who wrote on the experiential nature of religion as well as the everyday uses of language,

left Spain for Italy because the threat of the Inquisition was so grave.

Seth Kimmel summarizes the ideas of Valdes on Castilian Spanish compared with

the teachings of Nebrija:

A contradictory figure deeply influenced by Erasmus and later associated with the
alumbrados, Valdes mocked Nebrija’s view of Castilian as a grammatical arte
[art] taught in books rather than a lived form of communication. Nebrija’s
“gramatiquenas [grammatical pedantries],” as Valdes sardonically dubbed such
arte in his Dialogo de la lengua, a conversation between a group of curious
Italians and their Iberian interlocutor composed in the 1530s, consequently missed
the truly dynamic aspect of spoken Castilian, replete with popular refrains and
nonstandard usage.515

The alumbrados were mystics persecuted by the Inquisition for their personalized

conceptions of the divine. It is clear that Valdes was no slave to convention. K. Anipe

notes, “Sociolinguistic variability, incuding variation in his own usage and preferences, is

at the heart of Valdes’s thinking process.”516 Shortly after these trends in linguistics, and

514. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, s.v. “Juan de Valdes,”

http://www.britannica.com/biography/Juan-de-Valdes.
515. Seth Kimmel, Parables of Coercion: Conversion and Knowledge at the End
of Islamic Spain (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 72, brackets mine.
516. K. Anipa, ed., “Dialogo de la lengua,” by Juan de Valdes: A Diplomatic
Edition (Cambridge: Modem Humanities Research Association, 2014), 17.
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in the same geographical regions, the figured-bass tradition reached maturity. From what

has been stated thus far, developments in both the study of vernacular language and styles

of guitar accompaniment hinged on that which could be learned from exposure to

common practice. The everyday habits of the Spanish people were assumed into both

disciplines.

With regard to modernity’s applications of principles akin to those found within

the guidelines of Sanz, one would do well to look to Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967). Kodaly

was a composer known not only for his own music, but also for the still-vibrant legacy of

Hungarian music education he helped build and propagate together with Bela Bartok

(1881-1945). The approach to music education known as the Kodaly method, a name

that often denotes the broader scope of Hungary’s renowned systems of musical training,

relies on student participation in singing folk songs and playing games associated with

the tunes.

Students acquire musical literacy on the heels of much activity in music making

and sound-related problem solving. Far from professorial, the Kodaly method seeks to

draw understanding from the students and involve inquisitive minds in the learning

process. Both folk and academically refined music have roles to play, and various

musico-cultural registers are unified under an insistence on competency in various skills

related to musical notation. And though theory has its place, the Kodaly method takes

sound for its primaiy objective.

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Having contemplated the ideas put forth in chapters 6 and 7, one might attempt to

summarize them in a single sentence. For the folk- and popular-inspired Spanish guitar of

the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, written language, both textual and musical,

served to relax socioeconomic-class boundaries without making guitar music formulaic.

The guidelines of Instruction, widely recognized as some of the most valuable

lenses through which early-Baroque guitar traditions of Spain may be observed, end with

the confession that the rules of counterpoint and composition are infinite. Sanz notes

tellingly, “whatever might be lacking will be supplied by practice.”517 Like Sanz, who in

several places within Instruction makes known his desire to write more on guitar playing,

Doizi de Velasco, Brizeno, and Amat all mention plans to publish more on the same

topic. This open-ended mindset is true scientific inquiry. Ever-developing accumulations

of knowledge invite excellence without getting stuck in absolute truth.

517. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 32r: “lo que faltare, lo fuplira la mifma practical
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Chapter Eight:
Compositions in Rasgueado Style

For the climax of this study, I have chosen to let the music speak for itself. There

is a variety of rich subtopics at the disposal of the reader who has tended carefully to the

points presented in the sections of this thesis that precede the final two chapters; the

intention now is to demonstrate how the musical repertory of the early Spanish guitar acts

as a unifier. Having become familiar with some trends of guitar culture in Renaissance

and Baroque Spain, one should not require much more than an analysis of the music itself

to be convinced of the guitar’s ties to humanism.

True to the historical development of Spanish didactic publications for the five-

course guitar, Sanz begins the musical content of Instrvccion with pieces that employ

only the strummed style. The cyclical nature of the strummed style hearkens back to

Encina’s employment of phrasal symmetry and, even more common, his extended

repetitions necessary to accommodate several stanzas composed in a single metrical

scheme. The modem scores of Encina’s music may seem rhythmically complicated and

unpredictable at first glance, but this complexity is usually dispelled in two ways.

Where changes of time signature lure the eye into perceiving disjointedness, a

steady pulse may lie beneath what appears turbulent. “Todos los bienes del mundo”

serves as an instructive example.

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Example 74. Encina, “Todos los bienes del mundo.”518

61. Todos los bienes del mundo

{Fine! [D.C. ai Fine]

Alternating between the first contra and tiple voices, measures of six-eight and

measures of three-four are superimposed, the latter being found in the three voices that do

not change to six-eight. Like hemiola, which flavors later Spanish music of the Siglo de

518. Juan del Encina, ‘Todos los bienes del mundo,” in La obra musical de Juan
del Encina, ed. Manuel Morais (Salamanca, Castile and Leon, Spain: Centro de Cultura
Tradicional and Graficas Varona, 1997), 283.
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Oro with syncopation both within and to close a phrase, six-eight time adds rhythmic

interest to endings of lines of poetry in the composition shown above. Owing to the fact

that a single meter of either three-four or six-eight occupies the same temporal space, the

overall effect of the change of meter only lightly disturbs the pulse.

Considering the fact that bar lines are employed in the original parts only to

separate the A and B sections, and the mensural sign remains unaltered throughout, one

may look to the text to study the composer’s approach to rhythm. Indeed, one discovers

that every line, consisting of eight syllables each, is assigned to six beats. Behind the

facade of rhythmic complexity lies an even distribution of poetry.

Another counter to the abstruseness of Encina’s rhythms is repetition. This

regulating feature of his music relates directly to the harmonic cycles of strummed-style

guitar music. At just six measures long, “A tal perdida tan triste” showcases Encina’s

predilection for concision. Begging for improvised variety, the piece’s six additional

stanzas of poetry, if all are sung, make for a performance roughly fifteen times the length

of the music offered in notated form below.

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Example 75. Encina, “A tal perdida tan triste.”519

49. A tal perdida tan triste

qu'cs tra - T ?i6 n.

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Nineteen beats are arranged into groups of varying number of beats. Adjusting

eight-eight time to four-four in order to count the total number of beats more easily, one

finds the following pattern (numbers indicate how many beats to each group): one, four,

two, three, two, four, three. The time signatures shown here are deceiving, however.

Being notated without bar lines or changes to the mensuration sign, the original parts of

519. Juan del Encina, “A tal perdida tan triste,” in La obra, ed. Morais, 259.
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Encina are much less daunting. The simplest and most useful way to analyze the

phraseology of this piece arises from the text. Guided by the three lines of poetry for each

iteration of the musical material, one observes an irregular rhythmic scheme nonetheless:

six beats for the first line, five for the second, and eight for the third.

With regard to the collection of songs from which examples 74 and 75 are taken,

Miguel Manzano Alonso observes, ‘The extreme economy of musical means with which

these songs were written is one of their traditionally charming attributes, directly

opposing the techniques of the composers of the preceding period who sought as much

contrast as possible between A and B sections.”520 Likewise, in Latin sacred music,

contemporaries of Encina were shedding the cryptology and intellectual artifice

cultivated by composers of the generation of Ockeghem, whose ties to Spanish secular

music are illustrated in the music of Comago. Ismael Fernandez de la Cuesta proclaims,

with regard to the compilation of the music of Encina consulted for examples 74 and 75,

“If one must be limited to three qualities that describe polyphony at the dawn of the

Spanish Renaissance, then one must not miss this music’s naturalness, efficiency, and

escape from hollow and grandiloquent rhetoric.”521

520. Manuel Morais, introductory study to La obra, ed. Morais, 62: “La gran
economi'a de medios musicales con que estas canciones fueron escritas es uno de sus
tipismos, oponiendose frontalmente a la manera de escribir de los compositores del
periodo anterior que buscaban lo mas posible contrastar la seccion B con la A.”
521. Ismael Fernandez de la Cuesta, foreword to La obra, ed. Morais, 13: “Si por
algo se distingue la polifonia en los albores del Renacimiento espanol es por su
naturalidad, su eficacia y su huida de una retorica hueca y grandilocuente”
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Even Morales, a composer known for his imitation of Flemish polyphonic

inventiveness, employed unifying devices comparable to the repetition of the short

passages of examples 74 and 75. In his Missa Sancta et immaculata, Guerrero pays

homage to “his admired predecessor and one-time teacher, Morales,”522 with various

incorporations of the opening theme of the eponymous motet by Morales. Most

appropriately notable among these devices of Guerrero is the cantus firmus obstinatus,

which is found in the Benedictus.

Acting in the manner of a ground bass, the repetition of Morales’s theme gives

rise to a series of diferencias, the precursor to the well-known theme-and-variations form.

To demonstrate points in common between popular Baroque styles and contemporaneous

sacred music, it is important to note that the use of the cantus firmus obstinatus lasted

into the seventeenth century, overlapping with the rise of the five-course guitar.523

The notation of the strummed-style pieces of Instrvccion is very simple. When

compared with plucked-style pieces of the same formal classification, the strummed style

is consistently less complex in terms of rhythm. This skeletal notation would have left

plenty of room for regional variants on the popular dance forms, a phenomenon similar to

the variety of romance dialects spoken in the different regions of Spain. It is appropriate

here to remind the reader that, though efforts toward a unified Spain were being made,

the early-modern Iberian Peninsula is arguably more accurately described as Las Espafias

522. Bruno Turner, introduction to Guerrero, Missa sancta.

523. Ibid.
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(literally, The Spains). Owing to the potential for stylistic variation and evolution, I have

omitted up- and down-strums from the modem transcriptions of the rasgueado

progressions. Refer to the alfabeto notation of Sanz for the original strumming patterns.

The first strummed-style piece of Instrvccion is a demonstration of the first

labyrinth. Two pasacalles illustrate the manner in which the reader is to use the labyrinth.

Four pasacalles are offered in the compendium of strummed-style music included after

the second labyrinth. Presented in six different versions—more than any other strummed-

style form—and being the first of sixteen strummed-style progressions offered in

Instrvccion, the pasacalle assumes a position of primary importance.

Example 76. The first pasacalle of the compendium of strummed-style forms.524

524. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 18r.

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Example 77. The first pasacalle of the compendium of strummed-style forms, in modem
notation.525

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Having begun from a subordinate social position, the pasacalle was beginning a

process of refinement at the time the first edition of Instrvccion was published. According

to Thomas Schmitt, the last quarter of the seventeenth century saw a shift in how the

pasacalle came to bear. From roles as a simple functional accompaniment or a teaching

tool, the pasacalle was becoming a legitimate style through which educated composers

crystallized their own ideas in sophisticated musical language.526Andres Sanchez Serrano

treats the pasacalle from a similar perspective in his doctoral dissertation, Elpasacalles

en la “Instruccidn de Musica sobre la guitarra espanola” de Gaspar Sanz(1640-ca.

1710) II (2013). It is instructive to note that Sanz sets the pasacalle in duple as well as

525. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 18r.

526. Thomas Schmitt, “El pasacalles espanol y la idea de la obra,” in “Actas del
IV Congreso de la Sociedad Espanola de Musicologia: La investigation musical en
Espana: Estado de la cuestion y aportaciones,” vol. 1, special issue, Revista de
Musicologia 20, no. 1 (1997): 315-20, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20797419.
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triple meter. All six strummed-style pasacalles are in triple meter, while eight of the ten

settings in book three of Instrvccion employ duple meter.

After the pasacalles to demonstrate the labyrinth comes the gallarda, the first

form included in the compendium. The linguistic similarity to the well-known galliard

may be deceiving in this case, because the gallardas of Instrvccion are composed in

duple meter. One common understanding is that after a pavan in slow duple meter, the

galliard reworks the thematic material of the pavan into a quicker dance in triple meter.

Even though from strummed-style gallardas of Sanz to polyphonic gallardas

compositions by the organist Juan Cabanilles (1644-1712) one finds the music is

composed in duple meter, the proper metrical accent can be elusive. Maurice Esses

provides a valuable piece of information on the interplay between binary and ternary

rhythm that tends to occur in the gallardas:

It is important to emphasize one general feature of the notational practices of

Western Europe during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In any piece
the given mensuration sign and barlines do not necessarily indicate the metrical
framework and accentual organization of the music. Thus instrumental dance-
song settings based on triple-meter schemes are sometimes notated as if they were
in duple meter. This often occurs in Spanish settings of “Guardame las vacas”
from the late sixteenth century . . . 527

527. Maurice I. Esses, “Dance and Instrumental ‘Diferencias’ in Spain during the
Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries” (doctoral dissertation), University of
Toronto (1986): 392, http://search.proquest.com/docview/303534273?accountid=13802.
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This proposition of Esses can be supported with a primary source. Brizeno

subtitles one gallarda “Las bacas,”528 a reference to the traditional Spanish tune

“Guardame las vacas,” which is based on the romanesca ground. Following “Las bacas,”

Brizeno presents another gallarda, this being generically titled “una gallarda

romanesca.”529 Listening to recordings of “Guardame las vacas” by Jacob Heringman

(2003), Segovia (1956), or the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (2015), one is easily able to

feel triple meter. The strummed-style settings of Sanz are set in duple meter, but

ultimately bring about a pulse in three.

Example 78. First gallarda, showing compasillo.530

528. Brizeno, Metodo, 12.

529. Ibid., 13.
530. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 18r.
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Example 79. The second of three gallardas. The compasillo mensuration sign still
applies. The markings above this setting clarify the rhythm.531

Example 80. Second gallarda, in modem notation. The red ovals mark the accented first
beat of each three-beat rhythmic unit532

The accentuation demarcated by the red ovals in the modem transcription above

corresponds with the plucked-style gallarda that opens book two of Instrvccion.5J31

would understand if one is not convinced this triple-meter pulse is unequivocally

pronounced, but there can be no denying that the phrasal structure of the chord

531. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 18r.

532. Ibid.
533. Ibid., fol. 40r.
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progression consists of two phrases of three measures each. Perhaps the reader will find it

interesting that in every gallarda composition for organ by Cabanilles I have examined,

no such delineation of ternary rhythm is perceptible.

Next comes the villano. The etymology of the name of this harmonic progression

speaks to the societal connotations of the music. Covarrubias describes the villa to be “a

workers’ quarters or farmhouse in the country . . . in which laborers stay with their

livestock.”534These laborers were identified as villanos, and, according to Covarrubias,

were thought to be “very rustic and unpleasant,”535 of a disposition opposite to that of an

hidalgo, the classification of a man of the lowest-ranking nobility.536

Example 81. The first of two villanos:537

534. Covarrubias y Horozco, Tesoro, s.v. “villa,” 1531: “la caseria o quinta que
esta en el campo .. .a d o se recogen los que la labran con sus ganados,” ellipsis mine.
535. Ibid.: “muy rusticos y desapacibles.”
536. Ibid.
537. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 18r.
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Example 82. The first villano, in modem notation.538

Russell takes note of the lively nature of the villano, which was reflected in its

choreography.539 In 1577, Salinas used the villano, among several other popular Spanish

melodies associated with dancing, in De musica libri septem, a treatise on music written

in Latin. In this work Salinas does not shy away from an opportunity to critique ancient

Greek poetics, and employs vernacular Spanish song “not as examples of music but as

illustrations of rhythm considered from the standpoint of Classical prosody.”540 In another

evocation of the cross-cultural history of Spanish humanism, De musica legitimizes the

Islamic origins of the the melody “Rey don Alonso.”541 This is more than one could say

about early-modern official histories of the vihuela and guitar, which tend to bypass the

contributions of Middle Eastern Muslims.

538. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 18r.

539. Craig H. Russell, Santiago de Murcia’s Codice Saldivar No. 4: Commentary
(Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1995), 35-36.
540. J. B. Trend, “Salinas: A Sixteenth-Century Collector of Folk Songs,” Music
and Letters 8, no. 1 (1927): 19, http://www.jstor.org/stable/726187.
541. Ibid., 22-24.
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Next comes the dance de las hachas. Miguel Angel Berlanga Fernandez has noted

that, compared to “Guardame las vacas,” the dance de las hachas appeared infrequently

during the Spanish Renaissance.542Yet simply change the mensuration sign from duple to

triple and the dance de las hachas form becomes none other than “Guardame las vacas.”

Both take for their foundation the romanesca ground, a musical formula of renown and

longevity.

The attention paid by modem research to these forms is telling of their disparate

impacts. Grove Music Online retrieves no search results for dance de las hachas.

“Guardame las vacas” brings twelve results. Searching for the word romanesca generates

eighty-three search results, three of which are individual subject entries. Thus, that which

the triple- and duple-meter versions of the form have in common has taken a firm hold in

musical history.

Giuseppe Gerbino attributes the first appearance of the term romanesca to Tres

libros de musica of Mudarra.543 From there, it is rational to hypothesize a sociological

elevation of the romanesca. Sacred music in Latin is typified by duple meter, Spanish

folk tunes by triple meter. Sanz omitted “Guardame” in favor of the dance de las hachas,

542. Miguel Angel Berlanga Fernandez, “El bajo ‘Guardame las vacas’ y las
musicas tradicionales en el sureste espanol,” in “Actas del VI Congreso de la Sociedad
Espanola de Musicologia,” special issue, Revista de Musicologia 28, no. 1 (2005): 502,
http://www .jstor.org/stable/20798085.
543. Giuseppe Gerbino, “Romanesca,” Grove Music Online, Oxford Music
Online, Oxford University Press,
http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.jpllnet.sfsu.edu/subscriber
/article/grove/music/23732.
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thereby illustrating the metamorphosis of folk music. “Guardame las vacas” translates to

“Look after my Cows,” an unmistakably rustic turn of phrase. Furthermore, the term

dance, which is obviously related to danza, is employed to distinguish this form from the

more lewd bailes.

Example 83. The only strummed-style dance de las hachas to appear in the
compendium.544

544. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 18r.

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Example 84. The same dance de las hachas, in modem notation.545

One notable aspect of the dance de las hachas form is its equally measured

bipartite structure. Both of the progression’s two phrases begin with the same musical

material. The difference between the two phrases lies in the cadences. In modal

terminology, the first phrase cadences on the tenor, and the second on the final. Modem

tonal theory would employ the terms half cadence and authentic cadence. This musical

architecture is precisely that of the estampie, a popular Medieval form in which the two

cadences were termed open (on the tenor, half) and closed (on the final, authentic). Much

545. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 18r.

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of today’s musical scholarship points to the estampie''s being the first purely instrumental

genre of Western Europe. Also, it is possible the estampie served as accompaniment for

dancing.546 Both of these research lines arrive logically at a connection with the dance de

las hachas in that Sanz presents it as a purely instrumental form and Esses links it to a

particular dance.547

The focus of the doctoral work of Esses is dance, but his text provides much

valuable information on the origins of early-modern Spain’s common musical forms as

well. This is particularly true in the case of the jacaras. The threat posed by the base,

vulgarly entertaining jacaras to traditionally respectable and powerful sectors of society

was serious enough to warrant, in 1644,548an official ban imposed by the Council of

Castile, the government’s “ultimate decision-making body.”549

The poetry of the jacara depicted the life of the underclass, street villains and

rogues typical of picaresque literature. The musical accompaniment was normally

provided by a guitarist. In dramatic works, this harmonic progression has been employed

to confuse the societal boundaries between the rich and honorable and the poor and

detestable. Russell mentions its impact on the sacred villancico: ‘The Church became as

enamoured as the theater with the jacaras—indeed, no other subgroup of villancico is

546. Latham, Oxford Dictionary, s.v. “estampie,” 63.

547. Maurice Esses, Dance and Instrumental Diferencias in Spain during the
Seventeenth and Early-Eighteenth Centuries, vol. 1, History and Background, Music and
Dance (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon, 1992), 664-65.
548. Ibid., 670.
549. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, s. v. “Spain,”
http://www.britannica.com/place/Spain/The-reign-of-Charles-III-1759-88.
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more numerous.”550 Collections of guitar and keyboard music also illustrate the broad

reach of the form: “the jacaras was of supreme importance, taking second place only to

the pasacalle in popularity and number.”551

Example 85. One of the compendium’s two jacaras 552

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Example 86. The same jacaras, in modem notation.

550. Craig H. Russell, “Jacaras,” Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online,
Oxford University Press, http://0-www.oxfordmusiconline
.com .opac .sfsu .edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/14013.
551. Ibid.
552. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 18r.
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One will infer from the transcription into modern notation above that the jacaras

is a very simple harmonic formula. In its most basic form, the progression consists of just

two different harmonies. Variations on the framework come into play, none of which

disrupts the arrivals at the harmonies that begin the first measure and end the last. Two of

a total of four measures are occupied by hemiola, a trait likewise unaltered by well-

known elaborations of the basic harmonic scheme.553 Considering the conspicuous

blurring of metrical accent in this popular genre, one may trace frequent hemiola and a

general tendency toward syncopation from music of the common classes to notated

compositions and publications associated more with noblemen and literati. The minor

triad most often anchors the jacaras to associations with Mode I or Mode II. The jacaras

de la costa (jacaras of the coast) employs a major triad on the modal final, constituting a

progression tonally-minded theorists would label I-V-I.

553. Russell, “Jacaras.”

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Example 87. Only one strummed-style jacaras de la costa is found in the

compendium.554

Example 88. The jacaras de la costa, in modem notation.

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Esses finds little written on the choreography of the jacaras de la costa.555 His one

source, a late-eighteenth-centuiy author on dance named Felipe Roxo de Flores, clearly

denominates the form a baile, not a danza. It is generally understood that the jacaras on

the minor triad was employed more frequently than the jacaras de la costa. Russell

advises researchers not to overlook jacaras compositions whose titles omit de la costa

554. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 18r.

555. Esses, Dance and Instrumental Diferencias, 673.
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because sometimes, even though the major-triadic final is not indicated in the title, the

music shows otherwise.556

The jdcaras de la costa variations from Cifras selectas de guitarra (1722) by

Murcia is “highly demanding from a technical point of view.”557 Here, Alejandro Vera

conveys the assumption of lewd, rowdy music into a virtuosic repertory. Continuing with

help from Esses, Vera warns of the complications associated with putting music into

either the baile or danza category. The distinction is not always clear. While the tendency

is toward the ascent of lowly forms into learned circles, the reverse process might have

constituted a significant area ripe for musicological inquiry.558

The pasacalle appears next in Instrvccion's compendium of strummed-style

forms, but, owing to its primacy in Spanish guitar culture and early appearance in the text

of Sanz as a pedagogical tactic, I have placed the pasacalle first in my exposition. The

espaholeta follows.

The name espafioleta hints at strong patriotism, or at least a musical genre

definitive of the sound of Spain. Sources point to the pivotal role played by the Spanish

Netherlands in the dissemination, perhaps even creation, of the espafioleta.5S9 The earliest

notated example of the espaholeta form comes from II bailarino (1581), a dancing guide

556. Russell, Murcia’s Codice Saldivar, 166.

557. Alejandro Vera, introduction to Santiago de Murcia, Cifras selectas de
guitarra, ed. Alejandro Vera (Middleton, WI: A-R, 2010), xxiv.
558. Ibid.
559. Esses, Dance and Instrumental Diferencias, 632.
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by Italian dancer Fabritio Caroso (ca. 1530-ca. 1605).560 Caroso worked under the

patronage from the Caetani, a powerful family in control of Sermoneta, located near the

border of Rome and Naples. Contacts between Caroso and influential Italian families the

Medici, Famese, Gonzaga, d’Este, and Sforza, as well as the Spanish elite presiding over

Milan and Naples, generate interest in the international attributes of the espanoleta.*'

Esses has highlighted the aristocratic nature of the espanoleta. Furthermore, the

popularly inspired Spanish theater of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries found little

use for this form.562 The phraseology of the espanoleta testifies to associations with high

art. This strummed-style form is the longest yet of the compendium. With three distinct

phrases, more than any form of the compendium so far, and pronounced shifts from a D-

minor to an F-major triadic center and vice versa, the espanoleta invites compositional

ingenuity and formal development.

560. Richard Hudson, “Spagnoletta,” Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online,
Oxford University Press, http://0-www
.oxfordmusiconline.com.opac.sfsu.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/26342.
561. Julia Sutton, “Caroso, Fabritio,” Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online,
Oxford University Press, http://0-www.oxfordmusiconline.com.opac
.sfsu.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/04986.
562. Esses, Dance and Instrumental Diferencias, 630-31.
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Example 89. The one espanoleta in the compendium.563

Both triple- and duple-meter settings are found in Italian dance books from

around the dawn of the seventeenth century. Caroso published his triple-meter espanoleta

in 1581, twenty-one years before the duple-meter setting of Cesare Negri (ca. 1535-ca.

1605) was taken to the press. Esses discusses a comparison of the two forms: “By

considering two measures of the former to be equivalent to one measure of the latter, one

finds that both settings employ a similar, but not identical, harmonic-metric scheme

consisting of three repeated strains.”564

The rhythm of example 90 may seem facile. The plucked-style espanoleta two

pages further into Instrvccion reveals more complexity. Of particular note in the plucked-

style composition are two instances of the dotted-quarter-eighth-quarter rhythmic cell

illustrated in ex. 8 of this text (p. 99). Also, the plucked-style version employs more

chromaticism. Instead of the minor triad on the modal final in measure 18 of this

example, an E-major triad leads to the A-major triad in measure 19.

563. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 18r.

564. Esses, Dance and Instrumental Diferencias, 632.
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Example 90. The espafioleta, in modem notation.565

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The folios harmonic ground comes next. Hudson identifies two distinct periods of

the folios, both of which share points in common—similar chord progressions, similar

rhythmic cells, and similar musical functions (both were frameworks for variation).566

Hudson details other methods of comparison; for details I refer the reader to his writings.

Briefly, the earlier version of the folios originated in Portugal and spread throughout the

Iberian Peninsula and into Italy. The later version is said to have begun in late-

seventeenth-century France and England.567

The one strummed-style folios in the compendium contains the two-beat anacrusis

on the modal-final triad typical of the earlier version. Though many later composers

assimilated the folios harmonies into large-scale works, one should not assume the folios

of Iberian origin was simply a folk song. The term folios was often employed in reference

to dancing and poetry as well.568

In El suerio de la muerte, a satirical work written by Quevedo in the first quarter

of the seventeenth century, barbers play the folios along with pasacalles and vacas, the

last being short for “Guardame las vacas.” Campo Tejedor notes that these tunes would

be played in the street and barbershop alike.569According to Esses, ‘The Spanish nobility

566. Richard Hudson, ‘The Folia Melodies,” Acta Musicologica 45, fasc. 1
(1973): 114-119, http://www.jstor.org/stable/932224.
567. Ibid., 98.
568. For further reading see Esses, Dance and Instrumental Diferencias, 636-48.
569. Campo Tejedor, “Tocar a lo barbero,” 16.
began to perform folios during the second half of the sixteenth century.”570Thus, one will

note the socially mutable nature of the folios and its potential to blur class boundaries.

The folios in Instrvccion, like the dance de las hachas, replicates precisely the

form of the estampie. The music of the estampie is generally understood to be

instrumental. However, via associations with the dance music of the troubadours, the

vocal music of the Cantigas proves fruitful while researching alternate purposes of the

estampie:571 The refrain is a defining feature of troubadour dance music and the Cantigas

alike. Timothy J. McGee reports, ‘The Leys d'amors, a treatise compiled by Guillaume

Molinier during the first half of the fourteenth century, acknowledges the existence of a

musical form [of the poetic form called estampie] and goes on to state, ‘but sometimes

[estampie] refers not only to the music but also to the text, which is based on love and

homage.”’572 In light of what McGee has found, one is enticed by the possibility of

tracing popular forms of Renaissance and Baroque Spain back to courtly-love poetry in

Provencal.

There is also the linguistic commonality, Portuguese, between the histoiy of the

folios and the poetry of the Cantigas. Encina employed the folias progression in his

villancico “Pues que ya nunca nos veis” (see p. 145 of this text). Given the poetic lineage

570. Esses, Dances and Instrumental Diferencias, 646.

571. J. Peter Burkholder, Donald J. Grout, and Claude V. Palisca, A History of
Western Music, 7th ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006), 82-86.
572. Timothy J. McGee, “Estampie,” Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online,
Oxford University Press, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.jpllnet.sfsu.edu
/subscriber/article/grove/music/09012, first brackets mine.
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of the villancico, which includes the verse-refrain forms of the Cantigas and the Arabic

zajal, one is reminded of two issues central to the sociopolitical climate of Spanish

Renaissance humanists; namely, the polemics of popular spirituality and the widespread

prejudice toward the Muslim community. To forget these two matters are absent from

today’s world would be a grave mistake.

Example 91. The folios, a relatively extensive harmonic ground, is presented only once
in the compendium.573

The early music of Spain is laden with interjections of trochaic and iambic

rhythms within the same piece or even the same phrase. In example 92, the trochee

occurs in measure 7. The iamb, found in measure 13, takes on a slightly different guise.

This particular iamb is a result of the harmonic rhythm, which assigns two quarter-notes

to the second harmony of the measure, and just one quarter-note to the first.

573. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 18r.

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Example 92. Folios, in modem notation.

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The pavan, or pavana, as it was known in Spain, comes next in the strummed-

style compendium. Owing to the general consensus that the pavan most likely originated
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in Italy, probably in the town of Padua, it is not necessary to delve much into this form’s

history or musical characteristics.

To be sure, the importing of music to the Iberian Peninsula has been a long and

involved process. In the context of the present exposition, I will address the most

pertinent examples of definitive Spanish music. The complexities of how various

civilizations interacted through migrations to and from the homeland of the great Spanish

Empire present thick subjects of inquiry perhaps impossible to solve. There may be

counterarguments with regard to how Spanish the Spanish forms presented here actually

are. The endeavor I have undertaken aims at a recreation of the music that people of

Renaissance and Baroque musical cultures took to be representative of Spanish identity.

It is noteworthy that Esses does not trace, in the history of the pavan, the popular-

to-aristocratic assimilatory path many Spanish strummed-style forms took. Alan Brown

has stated that the earliest printed pavan is a piece of lute tablature by Joan Ambrosio

Dalza (fl. 1508). The Intabulatura de lauto of Dalza was published by Ottaviano dei

Petrucci (1466-ca. 1539) in Venice in 1508.574One should note that both Padua and

Venice are found in the north, far from Spain’s influence in the south-Italian region of

Naples.

Eventually, in the late-sixteenth century, a characteristically Spanish version of

the pavan was established. In spite of this fact, the documentary evidence of the Italian

574. Alan Brown, “Pavan,” Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online, Oxford
University Press, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.jpllnet.sfsu.edu
/subscriber/article/grove/music/21120.
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origins of the pavan convince me to consider it Italian music. It should be noted,

however, that the Spanish pavan is defined in part by a standardized harmonic-metric

plan, an attribute absent from the Italian model.575The compendium of Instrvccion

contains one pavan.

Next comes the rugero, a strummed-style form of which there is also just one

representative in the compendium of Sanz’s text. The rugero remained more strongly

linked to its Italian roots than did the pavan. With a clearly traceable history back to

Ferrara, the north-Italian region just south of Padua and Venice, the rugero shared with

the pavan a broad, international appeal. Unlike the Italian pavan, however, the Italian

rugero, known as the ruggiero in Italy, would have unwaveringly denoted a specific

chordal formula and rhythmic pattern. This form is linked through both etymology and

music to Italian epic poetry.576

In the 1532 epic work Orlando Furioso by the Italian author Ludovico de Ariosto

(1474-1533), Ruggiero is “a heroic Saracen knight beloved by Bradamante, a female

Christian knight.”577 Legend has it, the d’Este family—in whose service Ariosto found

himself from 1503 to about 1525—began with the offspring of Ruggiero and

Bradamante.578Thus, while the ruggiero harmonic-metric formula does not appear to be

575. Esses, Dance and Instrumental Diferencias, 695.

576. Ibid., 703-05.
577. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, s.v. “Ruggiero,”
http://www.britannica.com/topic/Ruggiero-fictional-character.
578. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, s.v. “Ludovico Ariosto,”
http://www .britannica.com/biography/Ludovico-Ariosto.
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bom from the peasantry, it entails a story in which the matrimonial norms of Christian

society play a central role. A so-called pagan by birth, Ruggiero was later baptized, yet

continued to struggle to be seen as a worthy suitor for Bradamante. Together with

providing a point of departure for discussing interclass relationships and religious

supremacism, the success of the marriage of these two figures confirms the power of

cortesia (courtesy).579

Information on the paradetas is scant. This dance form, which follows the rugero

in Instrvccion, appears in only one other Spanish guitar method of the seventeenth

century, the 1677 book Luz y norte musical by Lucas Ruiz y Ribayaz (fl. ca. 1670-ca.

1680).580 Unfortunately, due to two missing folios from the method of Brizeno, the

absence of the paradetas from this work cannot be certain.

It may come as a disappointment that the piece in Luz y norte is but a

reproduction of the music of Sanz. Ribayaz borrowed liberally from other composers, a

practice he makes known in his book.581 Luz y norte includes a paradetas for harp as well,

and not just a transcription of the guitar work by Sanz. As Bordas confirms, the harp

music may well be composed by either Lorente or Juan del Vado (ca. 1625-1691). This

579. For further reading see David Marsh, “Ruggiero and Leone: Revision and
Resolution in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso,” Modern Language Notes 96, no. 1 (1981):
144-51. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2906434.
580. Robert Strizich and Craig H. Russell, “Ruiz y Ribayaz, Lucas,” Grove Music
Online, Oxford Music Online, Oxford University Press, http://www.oxfordmusiconline
.com.jpllnet.sfsu.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/24130.
581. Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz, Luz y norte musical (Madrid: 1677), 32.
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is a significant statement, though impossible to confirm because the necessary works

have been lost.

Both Lorente and Vado were both organists and composers of sacred music.582

Especially for the theorist Lorente, composing in a popular-style dance form would

signify a striking break with traditional counterpoint and erudite Spanish theory in

general.583 Regardless of who the composer was, the harp paradetas points to this form’s

acceptance into high musical culture. A paradetas by Guerau seems to have been edited

by Giuseppe Gazzelloni and published in Italy by Berben in 1980, but the piece is not

contained in the didactic text by Guerau.

The Dictionary of the Royal Academy of Spain {Real Academia Espanola) posits

Spanish origins of the p a r a d e t a s It is interesting, in my opinion, to note the difference

in terminology between the version of this dictionary I have consulted and the version

cited by Esses. Quoting the first edition, published in 1714, Esses shows that the entry

uses the word b a ile d Today’s entry changes this detail, opting instead for danza.

Continuing on the subject of the paradetas, Esses finds it connected to Catalonia and

Valencia, but no other region either within or outside of Spain. This musical form’s

582. Luis Robledo, “Vado y Gomez, Juan del,” Grove Music Online, Oxford
Music Online, Oxford University Press, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.jpllnet.sfsu
.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/28887.
583. Alvaro Zaldiver, “Lorente, Andres,” Grove Music Online, Oxford Music
Online, Oxford University Press, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.jpllnet
.sfsu.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/16985.
584. Diccionario de la Real Academia Espanola, s.v. “paradetas,”
http://dle .rae .es/?id=RpW8kzU.
585. Esses, Dance and Instrumental Diferencias, 683.
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function as a baile is incorporated into a mid-seventeenth-century staged comedic work

by Sebastian Rodriguez de Villaviciosa (1618-1663).586

Example 93. The notation of the one paradetas in the strummed-style compendium is
rather difficult to follow.587

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w | II1' IA 14 ^ " ^ '

586. Esses, Dance and Instrumental Diferencias, 683-84.

587. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 18r.
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Example 94. The paradetas, in modern notation.

8
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The plucked-style paradetas in book two of Instrvccion is helpful in elucidating

the notational problems of the strummed-style progression. For example, measures 4 and

8 are unclear. Does the guitarist observe a rest on beat one before playing the two-strum

pattern that spans beats two and three? The plucked-style piece leads one to believe that a

rest would in fact be necessary.

Also, Sanz seems to forget to expressly change the note value at certain points in

the strummed-style progression. In measure 8, is one supposed to continue on with dotted

half-notes? Common sense says otherwise. In the final measure, the half-note would

result in a strange truncation of the form and cycle back to the beginning of the

progression incorrectly. The plucked-style paradetas confirms—again on the side of

common sense, but not necessarily in line with the particulars of the notation—that the

final measure should last for three beats.

The portion of Sanz’s compendium containing Spanish dances comes to a close

with the paradetas. The following group of chord progressions—which Sanz calls

sonadas instead of dances, the latter being the denomination employed for the Spanish

forms—is comprised entirely of foreign music. One primary goal of this thesis is to lay

out the characteristics of early music for the Spanish guitar as it was conceived within

Spain; so, at the present juncture, it is appropriate to move on to an exposition of the

music of Instrvccion composed in plucked and mixed-tablature styles.

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Chapter Nine:
Compositions in Punteado and Mixed-Tablature Styles

The table of contents of book one of Instrvccion states that the first set of

plucked-style compositions is meant for the beginner. These pieces are not technically

demanding, and, moreover, demonstrate a convenient transition from the strummed style

to more advanced techniques. Like the compendium of strummed-style music, the first

set of plucked-style pieces begins with a gallarda.

Now in a more refined and delicate style, Sanz treats many forms found in the

strummed-style compendium. There are also many forms that do not feature in the

section on strummed style. Mixed-tablature settings play important roles in understanding

the assimilation of strummed style into high art. The table below shows how many times

each form is set in each style. The data are taken from all three books of Instrvccion, and

the listed order of the forms corresponds to their order of appearance throughout the three

books.
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Form Strummed Style Plucked Style Mixed Tablature

Gallardas 3 2 0
Villano 2 2 0
Dance de las hachas 1 2 0
Jacaras 2 2 2
Jacaras de la costa 1 0 0
Pasacalle 6 18 1
Espanoletas 1 3 0
Folios 1 1 0
Pavana 1 2 0
Rugero 1 1 0
Paradetas 1 1 0
Gran Duque de Florencia 2 2 0
Baile de Mantua 1 0 0
Saltaren 1 0 0
Zarabanda francesa 2 0 3
Tarantela 1 0 0
Mariona 0 1 1
Torneo 0 1 0
Batalla 0 1 0
Canarios 0 2 1
Preludio 0 1 1
Alemanda 0 0 2
Jiga 0 1 1
Coriente 0 0 1
Fuga 0 2 0
Matachm 0 1 0
Zarabanda 0 1 0
Chacona 0 1 0
Maricdpalos 0 0 1
Bailete frances 0 1 0
Clarines y trompetas 0 3 0
Cavalleria de Napoles 0 1 0
Condones 0 1 0
Garzona 0 1 0
Coquina francesa 0 1 0
Lantururu 0 1 0
Esfachata de Napoles 0 1 0
Minona de Cataluna 0 1 0
Minina de Portugal 0 1 0
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Trompetas de la Reyna de 0 2 0
Suecia
Clarm de los Mosqueteros 0 1 0
del Rey de Francia

Table 2. These data will serve to better understand the relationship between the
strummed and plucked styles.588

The disproportionately large number of pasacalles stands out immediately. One

should clarify that two of these six strummed-style pasacalles belong to the didactic

examples of the first labyrinth. Relatedly, the potential number of pasacalles offered in

Instrvccion is far greater than six. The first labyrinth manifests through a table of twenty-

four rows and four columns, which gives rise to two pasacalles from each note of the

chromatic octave—one pasacalle from the major triad and one from the minor triad.

Permitting each variation by inversion to count as a separate pasacalle, the labyrinth

makes for a set of 1536 pasacalles.5*9

As the alpha and omega of the music of Instrvccion in a literal as well as a

figurative sense, the pasacalle prompts an examination of how Sanz treated forms that

belonged to similar cultural registers. Of the nine Spanish strummed-style forms

described in chapter 8, six are set in the plucked style more than once. Of the other thirty

forms in table 2, again six are employed for more than one plucked-style composition.

588. Sanz, Instrvccion, 3rd ed., fols. 18r-27r, 36r-38r, and 40r-49r, 8th ed., fols.
49r-58r.
589. Special thanks to Robert Spurgeon for his help on working out this
calculation.
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These statistics show a ratio of 3:2 versus 5:1. Clearly, Sanz’s preference was for native

popular styles familiar to the reader of Instrvccion when it came to choosing a basis for

plucked-style compositions.

The first set of plucked-style pieces in Instrvccion incorporates eight fragments of

music that, like the progressions of the strummed-style compendium, provide foundations

for improvisation. These eight plucked-style examples would also rightly be seen as

practice exercises or warmups, which recalls the trajectory of the didactic text of

Mudarra. They offer only one or two variations on the harmonic progressions of the

strummed style.

Example 95. Sanz offers one iteration of the villano progression in the plucked style. The
groups of dots next to the fret numbers indicate which finger takes the note in question.590

590. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 20r.

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Example 96. The same villano, in modem notation.591

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Example 96 illustrates the placement of alfabeto-based intervals in positions

corresponding to the strummed-style villanos (see pp. 331-32 of this thesis). The

anacrusis in the plucked-style setting differs from the strummed-style statement of the

major triad on the modal final. Sanz opts instead for an ascending stepwise preparation of

the F-sharp on the first-course second fret on the down beat of the first full measure.592

591. Recall that in the plucked style, no bourdons are used. Hence, a re-entrant
tuning is depicted on two staves—the bottom for the unison fifth, fourth, third, and
second courses, and the top for the single-string first course. The marking 2 and 4 refers
to the course numbers involved in a unison played on two different courses. This results
in a thicker timbre.
592. The reader must understand that even in punteado, pitch is still nominal. In
order not to sow confusion with incessant course and fret numbers, I will use the pitches
found in my transcriptions while discussing the music in the text.
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Other than this brief example of replacing chordal harmony with monophonic melody,

Sanz obeys all other alfabeto shapes and their appropriate rhythmic accents.

In efforts to understand the plucked style in terms of sacred polyphony, an

analysis of the role of the first course of the guitar aids greatly. The single-string first

course provides the guitarist with an opportunity to add emphasis to the separation of

independent voices. With a clear, singing timbre at the top of the instrument’s range, the

first course makes intabulating solo song a process particularly well suited to the guitar.

Nevertheless, phrases executed entirely on the singing first course are very rare. It

is much more common to see melodic phrases shared between two or among several

courses. This is easily observed in example 96.

One point that sometimes goes unmentioned is that the guitar is capable of

obscuring written note values by way of allowing notes to ring out while a string is not

being plucked. This aspect of performance practice, which often goes unexpressed in

notation—especially in early music, which tends to allow for a range of interpretations—

would be useful in creating a fluidity more pronounced than that which one sees in the

music of example 96. Sanz would likely have been in favor of letting unoccupied courses

ring through the activity of courses being plucked by the fingers of the right hand. As

support for this proposition, one may consult the tenth punteado rule (p. 201 of this

thesis). Additionally, campanelas have an effect comparable to that of the now widely

employed practice of letting strings ring out. Campanelas will be explored in the

examination of the next piece from the plucked-style collection.

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Following the set of diminutive compositions that opens the plucked-style portion

of Instrvccion, one finds four compositions occupying one recto side of a folio each. One

recto is an area equivalent to one side of a modem page. Now able to develop his

compositions further, Sanz takes the next step toward ratifying popular guitar style.

Among these more extensive punteado and mixed-tablature compositions, one

encounters the canarios. The canarios is a dance form said to have originated with the

natives of the Canary Islands, the territory to the north-west of Africa conquered by the

Spanish Empire in 1496. At the dawn of the seventeenth centuiy, the canarios was

danced by the aristocracy, but never lost its crude flavor. As the centuiy continued, the

form cropped up frequently in the theater in association with humor and general

silliness.593

593. Esses, Dance and Instrumental Diferencias, 600-09.

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Example 97. Sanz introduces the canarios in mixed-tablature notation.594

594. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 23r.

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Example 98. Mixed-tablature canarios, in modem notation.

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Examples 97 and 98 illustrate an approach to mixed tablature that highlights the

differences between rasgueado and punteado. For the most part, the texture of this

canarios is light. Aside from the one alfabeto harmony, which receives two strums, more

than two courses are struck simultaneously only once throughout the entire composition.

This occurs in measure 19. Like the final note of the plucked-style villanos (ex. 96), two

courses frequently sound the same pitch in order to thicken the texture.

In the canarios, a full,five-course texture sounded with an emphatic down-strum

followed by an up-strum marks the rhetorical climax of the piece. This expressive

outburst is further highlighted by the longest rest of the composition. Studying the

tablature, one will see that Sanz has implied rests by inserting note values that do not add

up to a full measure. This canarios provides an example of how rasgueado technique

would have been employed in order to infuse meaning into a pervadingly delicate

punteado composition. By contrasting the raucous with the refined, Sanz broadened the

spectrum of musical affectation.

Campanelas offer another way to add interest to the melody and texture of a

punteado composition. In one sense, campanelas are the guitar’s response to its limited
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range and reduced polyphonic capacity. In measure 21 of example 9 8 ,1 have indicated

the passage is to be played in the campanelas style by simply writing camp. In all such

instances, I refer the reader to the original tablature to find out which courses are

employed in the campanelas.

Measure 21 exhibits a short descending melodic sequence played on only open

strings. In the second half of measure 20, the descending stepwise third initiates the

melodic activity. Contrasting with the campanelas performed on all open strings, the

anacrusis in measure 20 begins with the second and fourth courses in unison. The

remaining two notes are sounded on the second course on the second fret and open string,

respectively.

The first half of measure 22 is reminiscent of the first statement of the descending

melodic third (m. 20) in that open and stopped strings both have a role to play; but now

the first course is given a part. Having reached the bottom of Roman stringing’s range,

Sanz leaps a major seventh up to F-sharp for the descending melodic third F-sharp-E-D.

This continuation of the imitative material begins on the fourth fret of the fourth course,

then moves to the open first course, and finally to the open fourth course.

The descending-third motive sounds next on the first course alone without any

open-string notes. After this, the motive is split between two octaves. A stopped first-

course timbre blends with open and stopped strings on the third and fourth courses,

respectively. Finally, the motive is inverted in the same timbre with which the section
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began. The campanelas come to a temporary point of repose on a unison sounded by both

the second and fourth courses.

Instead of a number of different voices exploring a contrapuntal subject

concomitantly, Sanz tends to present melodic material sequentially. This means, unlike

Josquin, Morales, Palestrina, Victoria, and other composers whose work thrived on the

ability of single voice to state a theme in its entirety while other voices responded to and

interacted with said theme, Sanz developed his themes in a less synchronous style. Sanz’s

guitar teacher, Colista, portrayed a comparable thought process in his Pasacaille dite

Marionas (ca. 1655).

Why is a comparison between punteado guitar style and sacred polyphony

important? For one, differences in compositional techniques threaten to undermine the

authoritarian society that approved of Instrvccion in the first place. Expecting strict

adherence to conservative theoretical principles entrenched in Church doctrine, musically

knowledgeable censors would be in for a surprise. So when Alfonso lauds Sanz for

working four-voice polyphony onto the fretboard of the guitar (see p. 100), his words

must be reinterpreted in accord with the music as it was actually presented.

Especially in the theoretical discussions on the figured-bass treatise, Sanz brings

punteado style in near alignment with vocal polyphony. He likens the guitar to the human

voice and implies the use of his ideas in ecclesiastical settings. Nonetheless, traditional

Renaissance counterpoint manifests on the guitar so as to make its execution practical,

though noticeably transformed. Mudarra employed a similar practice in his vihuela

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transcription of the second section of the Gloria from the Missa faisant regretz by

Josquin. Alterations to the original vocal parts resulted in music more suitable to the

plucked-string idiom.

Thomas F. Taylor notes that alternations between soloists and choir was a

defining element of seventeenth-centuiy sacred style.595Taylor highlights the frequent

use of individual solos—as opposed to passages for solo ensemble—in Spanish motets,

but it should be noted that solo writing was a significant aspect of villancicos as well.

With this in mind, one identifies an important component of Spanish sacred composition

in the music of Sanz. Like the redobles of the vihuelists, which some have likened to the

florid single-note picado lines of the Moorish-influenced flamenco tradition, frequent

monophonic writing in guitar music parallels the role of a solo singer.

The Salve regina by Dur6n, known widely by the title Salve de ecos (Salve of

echos) because of the consistent echo effect provided the second choir, does not include

passages for an individual soloist, but provides a good example of the juxtaposition of

imitative development and homophonic declamation. A traditional exposition of the

plainsong melody quickly gives way to chordal exchanges between the two choirs. In this

example of the polychoral style, one notes that various textures rarely compete to be

heard. This is reminiscent of the campanelas above.

595. Thomas F. Taylor, ‘The Spanish High Baroque Motet and Villancico: Style
and Performance,” Early Music 12, no. 1 (1984): 67, http://www.jstor.org/stable
/3127154.
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Example 99. Duron, Salve regina.596

596. Sebastian Duron, “Salve regina,” in MS 3-060, ed. Jonathan Goodliffe

(Oxford, Ohio: Musica Colonial Archive, 2010), http://www2.cpdl.org/wiki/images
/f/fa/Dur-sal.pdf.
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In chapters 6 and 7 ,1 noted that the rules on figured bass contain references to

sacred settings. The appendix of the figured-bass treatise, a collection of punteado and

mixed-tablature pieces, closes with a chromatic pasacalle composed by Sanz for a

Spanish chapel master. The penultimate piece is a mixed-tablature pasacalle containing

notable intersections between strummed and plucked styles.

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Example 100. Sanz, Pasacalles por la E.597

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597. Sanz, Instrvccion, fol. 37r.

598. In m. 1 and in every such instance, each note of the C-D major second
should be understood as a double note, a unison sounded on one of the lower four courses
just like in the rest of the transcription. No courses are split in the transcriptions of this
thesis.
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The melodic disjunction in measure 15 invites a brief discussion on a modem

point of contention with regard to interpreting music for the early guitar. The descending

pentachord A-G-F-E-D is denied continual stepwise motion by the limitations of the

guitar’s range. Having reached the third-course G, the lowest note on guitars strung in the

Roman manner, Sanz is forced to leap up a minor seventh and then resume the

descending scale. Similar situations arise in this and other compositions for the Baroque

guitar.

Luthier Clive Titmuss (b. 1941) responds to the broken melodies of Sanz and

Guerau with the proposition that, contrary to what Sanz has explained in his rule on

tuning, the third course should actually be comprised of an octave. Titmuss has shown

that an octave course with one string at the specified pitch and one an octave higher

would solve the melodic interruptions, a complication seen in the music of Corbetta as

well.599There is no basis for this alteration to the established practice except for aspects

of the music, and these aspects have been identified by other scholars as normal for the

Baroque guitar idiom. Yet, looking to the music for such practical clues is not entirely

599. Clive Titmuss, email correspondence, July 27,2014.

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useless. Quite on the contrary, it is a natural response to the problem of assigning a single

tuning to a single style. Sometimes, one finds bourdons facilitate certain punteado

passages. After all, Doizi de Velasco advocated bourdons because they brought the guitar

into closer alignment with traditional vocal ranges.600

The melding of rasgueado,punteado, and sacred-polyphonic idioms is perhaps

most obvious in notational practices that place alfabeto harmonies alongside lute-style

tablature; but the mixing of styles is not confined to notation. Having just completed his

detailed explanation of the contrapuntal rules of figured-bass accompaniment, Sanz tests

the boundaries of dissonance treatment in Pasacalles por la E.

As early as the first full measure, Sanz makes use of dissonance without

preparation by tie. The bass note, C, creates tension with the inner voices, D and F-sharp.

This resolves to a G-minor triad on the downbeat of the next measure, which moves

without tied preparation to a seventh harmony on the tenor of the mode, A, and then to a

triad on the final.

False relations also bring Sanz’s discipline into question to a certain extent.

Though in several places over the course of the rules on figured bass Sanz warns against

the proximity of diatonic and chromatic versions of the same note, he challenges his own

authority with Pasacalles por la E. The manner of applying false relations seen in this

pasacalle is not expressly forbidden by the rules of Sanz. However, rules five and nine

600. Doizi de Velasco, Nvevo Modo, 16.

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hint at the potential offensiveness of this type of chromaticism. See measures 16,20, and

58 for examples.

Indications of down-strums and up-strums on harmonies notated in tablature

demonstrate a significant mixing of rasgueado and punteado styles. These indications are

seen on beat two of both measures 1-2, all of measures 25-26, the second harmony of

measure 45, beat one of measure 46, the second harmony of measure 47, and the second

beat of measure 53. In these situations the alfabeto system was unable to provide the

harmonies Sanz wished to employ. Conversely, the second beat of measure 50 exhibits an

alfabeto harmony without a specific strumming direction. This can only mean that the

alfabeto chord was intended to be plucked.

Beginning in measure 36, mixed tablature is used to striking expressive effect. On

the tail of explosive strums on the downbeats, slurred sixteenth-note runs recall the vocal

subtlety of the plucked style. This device ceases in measure 56, at which point sixteen

measures of more subdued music bring the piece to a close. At the halfway point of the

composition, one finds the most active and dynamic material. The mixed-tablature

canarios contains a parallel to this climax. From measures 37 to 54 (ex. 98), one finds the

most exciting musical material.

Formal plans that place the most energetic compositional techniques just after the

midpoint of the piece are analogous to dramatic theory of the Spanish Golden-Age

comedy. Basing their works on the principle of exposition-climax-resolution, Lope and

his contemporaries were also interested in maintaining suspense until the latest possible
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juncture. Toying with the expectations of the audience was key in penning a successful

comedy. In the mixed-tablature canarios and Pasacalles por la E, Sanz recalls the forms

of popular drama writing.

Example 102. Smz, punteado chacona.60'

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The chacona was one of the most controversial of the Spanish bailes. Proven to

be a moral threat to society, the chacona was officially banned from the theaters in 1615.

This legislation was not highly effective, however. The dance associated with the musical

accompaniment, often performed on the guitar, also provoked serious concern. The vocal

refrain normally depicted an escape from the responsibilities of everyday life, and

extended an invitation to travel to Chacona, a distant, paradisiacal place where one’s

cares could be forgotten.602

602. Esses, Dance and Instrumental Diferencias, 612-22.

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Sanz decided to forgo a rasgueado setting of the chacona in Instrvccion. In the

punteado work, the texture is prevailingly light, absent of the unruliness characteristic of

the strummed style. This piece is found in book two of Instrvccion, a collection of

punteado and mixed-tablature compositions to further illustrate the guidelines set forth in

the first book. Book two was not published until the third edition of Instrvccion. Sanz had

not yet shifted his dedication from Joseph to Charles II.

The punteado chacona examined here shows the assumption of lewd guitar style

into musical culture defined by detail and melodic finesse. Studying the fifth iteration of

the harmonic ground (begins m. 17, ex. 103), and the progression of its motivic material

through to the end of the piece, one begins to suspect a logical awareness of timbral

differences among the courses of the guitar as well as a desire to work this variety into

the details of composition. Could keeping the first course clear of singing melodies,

monophonic texture to which its unique single-string timbre was well suited, be more a

result of intention and less a submission to the limitations of the instrument’s range?

Based on the implied polyphony of the music beginning at measure 17,1 believe so.

The first course does not play a role equivalent to that of a vocal soloist, but it

does serve an important purpose. The proximity of single- and double-string timbres has

a dialogical effect. This phenomenon is exemplified in Sanz’s use of the note E in the top

space of the staff in measures 18-29. This E is an important note in that it may be

conveniently sounded by the open first course, fifth-fret second course, or second-fret

fourth course.
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The first E of measure 18 is sounded on the second-fret fourth course. This choice

of timbre installs a contrast to the motive F-sharp-E-F-sharp played on the first course.

Moreover, executing the first note of the measure on the second course allows for a

campanela-like ringing effect. Measure 19 may be seen in a similar light. After the last

note of the measure for the first course, the final three eighth-notes begin with a change

in texture. The pivot note is again E. Presented with the option of assigning E to the first,

second, or fourth courses, Sanz makes his decisions in accord with the melodic discourse.

The reader is invited to study the remainder of the punteado chacona, as well as the other

punteado and mixed-tablature works featured in this thesis, and either substantiate or

challenge the claim that the textural variety of the guitar contributes positively to the

adaptation of polyphonic theory.

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Example 104. Sanz, Pasacalles por la Lpor el Dos bemolado y por Primer Tono punto
bajo.

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bajo in modem notation.

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With book three of Instrvccion, dedicated to Charles II and devoted entirely to

ornate settings of the pasacalle, one finds even more noble assimilation of popular

musical language. Alfabeto is an active component of the third book, even though no

alfabeto letters appear in the notation. The titles of the book-three pasacalles include

alfabeto harmonies in the same way tonally minded musicians classify pieces according

to key center, but all of the alfabeto letters are transcribed onto the five lines of punteado

tablature. Sanz alludes to staff notation in some titles. In examples 104-05,por el Dos

bemolado (with two flats) refers to the signature of Mode I transposed down a major

second. In fact, Sanz clarifies in the title that this piece is in Mode I transposed to a C

final, “por el Primer Torn punto bajoT

Pasacalles por la L por el Dos bemolado y por el Primer Tono punto bajo is one

of two triple-meter pasacalles in book three. Out of a total of ten pasacalles, a mere two

pieces in triple meter reflect how sacred music, the less folk-inspired of which shows a

preference for duple meter, has exerted its influence on the pasacalle. Another feature of

the ascent of the pasacalle into high art is the sectional organization in Pasacalles por la

L. Labeled pasaje (passage), the closing section of the piece acts in a manner similar to

that of an afterdance like the galliard or the saltarello. One distinction to be made is that

the mensuration sign does not change. This holds true for the duple-meter pieces in which

a clearly delineated second section closes the piece.

Though the original pulse is retained, the music of the second section is often

rhythmically uncomplicated. A major foundational aspect is ostinato. One makes no

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mistake in identifying ostinato to be a primary feature in the opening sections of the

pasacalles of book three. Nevertheless, simpler and more prolonged ostinati define the

closing sections. Sometimes, there is a change of mode.

The forty-five measures of the pasaje contain twenty-one A-naturals. One counts

just fifteen A-naturals in the eighty-four measures of the opening section. Thus, clearly,

Sanz intended the closing section of his work to offer a contrasting approach not just to

rhythm, but also to melody and harmony. Unadorned quarter-notes string together,

contrasting with the artifice or the opening section. There are many instances in the

pasaje in which the C-minor triad seems to lose the authority of a harmonic center, but, in

my opinion, there is no change of mode per se.

Here, the modt-alfabeto pairings of table 1 aid the study of the thought processes

of Sanz concerning modal theory. According to Instrvccion, Mode I is represented by the

D-minor triad and is assigned no accidentals. Mode II, by comparison, is associated with

the G-minor triad and bears one accidental, B-flat. Keep in mind that the piece examined

presently is in Mode I transposed to a C final. Therefore, in spite of the fact that the

second chord of the pasacalle pattern beginning on the alfabeto harmony L is the minor

triad F-A-flat-C, Sanz finds a way to work many A-naturals into the fold. One draws an

important conclusion. Pasacalles por la L adheres to the mode-alfabeto system presented

by the composer.

Though it is not possible given the scope of this thesis, a more detailed study of

the relationship between the mode-alfabeto pairs of table 1 and the compositions of Sanz
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and his contemporaries would elucidate the historic transition from modal to tonal theory.

Regardless of the presence of modal terminology in a given piece’s title, one is able to

begin to build a nexus between the triadic harmonies of nascent tonality and the practice

of chromatically altering the modes.

Chapters 8 and 9 have explained the fundamental mechanics of early music for

the Spanish guitar. Through an exploration of the compositions, I have provided the least

debatable proof of connections between the early Spanish guitar and Spanish Renaissance

humanism. From the most basic rasgueado cycles to the most detailed punteado works,

the guitar assumes the role of go-between in the process of intercultural evolution.

The authors of the Spanish guitar methods initiated the acceptance of the guitar

and its music into print. The corpus of didactic guitar literature, like the vihuela books

before it, exhibits a morally outspoken nature. Touching frequently upon the power of the

vihuela and the guitar to reach into the human soul, all of these writers invoke the

universal. Aspiring guitarists of Spain were presented with a widely accessible instrument

through which both worldly and spiritual virtue could grow.

The raw material for theoretically and technically advanced guitar pieces is

predominately comprised of music that was not only central to the life of the common

classes of early-modern Spain, but also the object of ridicule and suspicion. Graced with

the blessing of tablature notation, polyphonic infusions, and formal artifice, the musically

base and banal became high-art commonplaces.

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Conclusion

In my view, the information and ideas conveyed in this thesis are not conducive to

a succinct and absolute summation upon which one sighs with resigned satisfaction and

states, “Case closed.” Quite to the contrary, both the pervading themes and the more

specialized divisions of the research approximate infinity. Moral human action upon

eloquence has been deemed worthy of study alongside developments in guitar music

from Renaissance and Baroque Spain. History has shown that linguistic excellence, both

spoken and written, has embraced the coarse, rowdy instrument of the people and set it

on a plane level with the most weighty of humanity’s thoughts and emotions. While the

topic at hand calls perpetually for further exploration, a review of the trajectory of this

study will contribute much to a necessaiy sense of closure.

The introduction states the goals of the study; namely, to familiarize the reader

with the guitar music of Renaissance and Baroque Spain, to apply concepts from this

period in the history of the guitar to the present day, and, most crucially, to defend the

thesis—that any study of the early Spanish guitar would be in complete without

significant inquiry into the world of Renaissance humanism. Next, the reader encounters

a historiography of the early-modem guitar and some of its close relatives belonging also

to the greater plucked-string chordophone family. This historical background illustrates

cultural interplay between East and West and addresses other topics relevant to the study

of humanism. Etymologically oriented approaches to historical investigation of the guitar,

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auro-oral versus written musical traditions, and a comparison between instruments of the

noblemen and those of the commoners all prepare for the intricate study of Instrvccion.

Before opening the study in earnest with chapter 1,1 defined Spanish Renaissance

humanism with support from the work of Niethammer, Gray, and DiCamillo. The

introduction closes with a brief histoiy of the politics of the Iberian Peninsula, which

provides much needed context for the state in which the region was to be found at the

dawn of the sixteenth century.

Chapters 1 through 3 analyze and interpret humanistic aspects of the front matter

of Instrvccion. Chapter 1 closes with the proposition that the virtues of self-expression

form the basis for a union between the aesthetics of the work of the seven Spanish

vihuelist-authors and the ensuing efforts of the Spanish guitar stylists. Even at this early

stage of the study, the reader is met with a strong emphasis on how popularly inspired

music interacted with the academically refined. Chapter 2 is a testament to the guitar’s

capacity to represent the intersection of the societal concerns of Spanish commoners with

those of Spanish nobility. Artistic self-representation bears heavily on this chapter as

well. Chapter 3 is heterogeneous, to say the least. Ultimately, however, one will find that

pragmatic applications of knowledge and skill depict the guitar to be a dynamic force

through which the base evolves into a motor of eloquence.

One of the principal statements of DiCamillo conveyed in this thesis relies on

invoking Classical learning as a touchstone of contemporary civilization. Manifestations

of this statement continue from chapter 3 to chapter 4. With chapter 4 comes an appraisal
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of Sanz’s guidelines on the strummed style that brings the humanistic traits of the

teachings into relief. One foundational component of the argument is seen in the

juxtaposition of the theoretical assessments of early-modern Spanish guitarists with

earlier as well as more mainstream contemporaneous Spanish theoriticians. Technical

aspects of the Spanish guitar school give rise to an exposition of humanist currents of the

period.

Chapter 5 continues in the vein of chapter 4, culminating in the culturally

transformative potentiality of written language. Built upon Sanz’s instructions on the

plucked style, chapter 5 highlights progressions in the history of the Spanish guitar from

this instrument’s entrapment in vice to its liberation as a symbol of progressive thought.

As always, discussions on interactions among Spaniards of various social classes portray

themes central to the guitar’s growing erudite legitimacy.

Chapters 6 and 7 contain vital musical examples from the early-modern Spanish

repertory, challenging the notion that the punteado style is equivalent to high art.

Outlined by the twelve rules on figured bass of Instrvccion, chapters 6 and 7 prove there

is no substitute for acting upon ideas. The texted lessons on, and notated musical

examples of, figured-bass acompaniment are functional only within the context of

practical application.

The final two chapters confirm the positions of this thesis with a relatively linear

examination of musical compositions. Through primary musical sources, I worked

toward portraying the primary objective of this thesis to be a self-evident statement. As

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the argument draws to a close, the artistic viability of common-class culture becomes

increasingly important. Folk and popular guitar music was codified and all but swallowed

up by a print culture that gave little credit to the humble, even politically despised origins

of stylized punteado and mixed-tablature compositions.

From Mudarra to Sanz, the erudite music world’s acceptance of popular song for

solo voice and guitar self-accompaniment steadily increased. This genre was largely

improvisatory, and, though the constraints of polyphonic theory did not always align with

the tendencies of the popular style, the two disparate traditions fused in various ways.

The most intensely permeating shift in style, a shift that affected all sectors of musical

society on the Iberian Peninsula, turned away from Flemish imitative polyphony and

toward cyclical progressions of triadic block harmonies set to dance rhythms.

Today, one is accustomed to the unrelenting categorization of music into genres,

subgenres, and their innumerable combinations. Relatedly, that the vihuelist and guitarist

authors of Spain shied away from the limitations of genre in the titles of their

publications is a telling piece of information. These writers often settle instead for simply

designating the music of their books to the instrument for which it was intended.

Indications of nationality and poetic or musical form are sometimes included.

The claim to Classical status was not stated outright, but, as I have shown in this

thesis, much internal evidence relates to ancient Greece and Rome, civilizations the term

Classical calls to mind. Classical also signifies a benchmark of artistic achievement, an

established and enduring system of customs. Music that is deemed classical in an

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authoritative sense of the word, not necessarily through its representation of antiquity, is

not always detachable from a process by which a so-called non-classical music is placed

within the classical canon. For example, this text has examined the transformation of folk

and popular styles into the foundation for what has become known as classical guitar.

One glaring difference between the classical guitar today and its popular as well

as ancient inspirations is seen in the absence of the voice from much of the standard

repertory. Informed by my research on the early guitar, and feeling obligated to propose

meaningful and pragmatic change in the mode of the most definitive humanist and

Classical minds, I have decided to write my own didactic work for the guitar. The text is

comprised of instruction on technique, self-accompanied singing, and composition for the

seven-string guitar. I am particularly excited and inspired by a possible resurgence of

self-accompanied singing in the world of academic music.

In closing, I propose that Classical learning and social morality are not mutually

exclusive disciplines. The music and cultural context of the early-modern Spanish guitar

owed as much to Greco-Roman intellectual achievements and spirituality as to peasants

and the morally suspect, indeed the whole of marginalized society in sixteenth- and

seventeenth-century Spain.

Simon Homblower writes of ancient Greece, “It was a period of political,

philosophical, artistic, and scientific achievements that formed a legacy with unparalleled
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influence on Western civilization.”601This is by now relatively common knowledge.

Perhaps less well known is the centrality of the farmer-poet Hesiod (fl. ca. 700 BCE) to

Greek inquiry into the nature of the world. Hesiod is remembered as a modest man who

rarely traveled from his rural home. According to Hesiod himself, he was featured in “a

contest of songs at the funeral games of Amphidamas at Chalcis on the island of

Euboea.”604

In contrast to the courtly and matter-of-fact Homer (fl. ca. 800 BCE), the only

other Greek poet known to have written prior to Hesiod, the Theogony of the latter

attempts to make sense of the mystery that is the universe. The words of Hamilton

stimulate endless reflection: “A humble peasant, living on a lonely farm far from cities

was the first man in Greece to wonder how everything had happened, the world, the sky,

the gods, mankind, and to think out an explanation.”605The musical arts of antiquity were

603. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, s.v. “ancient Greek civilization,”

http://www .britannica.com/place/ancient-Greece.
604. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, s.v. “Hesiod,”
http: //www .britannica .com/biography/Hesiod#ref261851.
605. Hamilton, Mythology, 21-22, NB: Consulting this source, one will be rightly
shocked at the initial appearance of a severe omission on my part. This sentence of
Hamilton’s begins with the conditional phrase, “If Hesiod did write it [the Theogony].”
More recent scholarship on the question of who composed the Theogony has ceased to
doubt Hesiod’s authorship, but does admit that some sections of the work were inserted
later by other poets. The core content of the ancient text is unaffected. Oxford Classics
professor Simon Homblower has confirmed these propositions. Additionally, numerous
universities and publishers now accept Hesiod as the author of Theogony. I have not
come across an authoritative modem source that puts the attribution to Hesiod in
question, brackets in note mine.
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reborn in the guitar traditions of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, and today,

continue to evolve under the auspices of the humanities.

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