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Friday, May 8, 2026, 6:00 pm MDT

 

MUSICKE’S CORDES

 

Samuel Breene and Jeffrey Noonan

 

“Where Music Is,
No Evil Thing Can Be”
Spanish Influence in
the 16th and 17th Centuries

 

Our final concert for the season features a creative exploration of Iberian influence in Early Music. The title of Musicke’s Cordes’ concert is a line spoken by Don Quijote’s sidekick, Sancho Panza, from Miguel de Cervantes’ famous novel and reflecting his appreciation of music. While Don Quijote’s musical skills were little better than his knightly talents, the novel, like Spain, is full of people singing, dancing, and playing. This musical odyssey starts in Renaissance Spain but expands to see how Spain’s music ranged across borders, mountains, and even oceans. From Spanish ricercars to New World ciaconnas, from French chaconnes to Austrian passacaglias, we’ll be treated to the riches and reach of Iberian music across Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. You won’t want to miss this wonderful conclusion to our fourteenth season!

 

 

The Performers
    Samuel Breene – Baroque violin
     Jeffrey Noonan – vihuela, lute, theorbo, and early guitars

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The Program

 

THE OLD WORLD

 

Romanesca: O guardame las vacas – Alonso Mudarra (c.1510 – 1580)
     from Tres libros de música en cifra para vihuela (1546)

Recarcada segunda (sobre el Passamezzo Moderno) – Diego Ortiz (c.1510 – c.1576)
     from Trattado de Glosas (1553)

 

Fantasía 1 – Luys Milán (c. 1500 – c.1561)
     from  Libro de música de vihuela de mano intitulado El Maestro (1536)

Recercada Quinta (sobre Passamezzo Antico) – Ortiz

Fantasía X que contrehaze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico – Mudarra

 

Three Recercadas – Ortiz
     Recercada Primo (sobre Passamezzo Antico)
     Recercada Settima (sobre Passamezzo Antico)
     Recercada Ottava (La gamba)

 

 

TRANSITIONS
 

Canzon seconda – Bartolomeo de Selma y Salaverde (c. 1595 – after 1638)
     from Canzoni, Fantasie et Correnti: Da suonar ad una 2.3.4. (1638)                                          

Chiaccona in partite variate – Alessandro Piccinini (1566-1638)
     from Intavolatura di Liuto, et di Chitarrone, Libro Primo (1623)

Canzon terza – Selma y Salaverde

 

Romanesca per Violino Solo e Basso se piace – Biagio Marini (1597-1665)
     from Arie, madrigali et corenti (1620)
     Romanesca—Gagliarda—Corrente

 

 

THE NEW WORLD AND BEYOND
 

Preludio & Chiacona – Francesco Corbetta (c. 1615 – 1681)
     from Varii Scherzi di Sonate per la Chitara Spagnola (1648)                                                   

 

Faronells Division on a Ground (La Folia) – Michel Farinel (1649-1726)
     from The Division-Violin (1684)                                                                                     

 

Prelude du mesme – Robert de Viseé (c. 1655 – 1732/3)
Chaconne…augmentée par Mr. De Visée
     (Saizenay manuscript, 1669; Bibliothèque municipale, Besançon)

 

Sonata Quarta – Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c. 1620 – 1680)
     from Sonatae Unarum Fideum (1664)

 

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