Francois-Hubert Drouais: Madame Clotilde playing the

17 Habsburg

Philip IV, Painting byDiego Velzquez, c.1644

17 Habsburg

Las Meninas is a 1656 painting in the

Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego
Velzquez, the leading artist of the
Spanish Golden Age

18 Bourbon
Philip V

bourbon
grandson of King
Louis XIV., (
)
,
, .
18 ,
( )

Philip V was King of Spain

from 1 November 1700 to 15
January 1724, when he
abdicated in favour of his
son Louis, and from 6
September 1724, when he
assumed the throne again

Santiago de Murcia (1673

1739)

Philip V :

(Cdice
Saldvar IV, ca.
1732)
Fandango

18 ,
3 , bolero

Santiago de Murcia (1673 1739)

The real giant of the Spanish baroque guitar
however, was Santiago de Murcia (16821732)
who achieved a synthesis of popular and art music
that eluded his predecessors and created a large
and fascinating body of work. His Passacalles equal
those of Guerau and not only was he able to
capture the vivid rhythms and harmonies of
Spanish folk dances (including ones from the New
World and West Africa), but to actually create
striking and fully composed versions of them. He
was also abreast of musical trends in Europe and
wrote updated versions of older French and Italian
dance suites, newly fashionable contredances and
even arrangements of keyboard pieces and the
violin music of that most influential of Italian
composers: Arcangelo Corelli. There are three main
sources of his music: TheResumen de

Facts about his life are very scanty but the

musicologists Craig Russell and Monica Hall have
done enough detective work to allow us to make a
few educated guesses. He was probably born in
the 1680s in Madrid where there are records
relating to the de Murcia family at court: Gabriel de
Murcia, Royal Guitar Maker, would have been the
right age to be his father. Santiago is described in
theResumenas Guitar Master to the Queen, Our
Lady, Maria Luisa Gabriela of Savoy. She was a
foreign import and although musically educated
and already able to play the harpsichord, she
obviously felt the need for some guitar lessons to
bolster her credibility with her new subjects.
After her death in 1714 Santiago vanished from
view although the fact that both thePassacalles y
Obrasand theCodice SaldivarNo 4 were found in
Mexico (as well as some new works turning up in

Cumbees(also known as the

These are both chuchumbe):
dances of West African origin but

seem to have come to Spain via the New World.

First, here are some thoughts about dancing in
general from the work of the 18th century cleric
Padre Antonio Garces:
Your Eminence asks me about contredanses in
which the bodies of men and women come together
and they make provocative gestures. They give
each other their naked hands, they press them, and
give one another signs with which they express love
to each other and not the pure kind. I respond
directing Your Eminence to Father Senari of the
Jesuit Order, Volume Four of the Christiano
instruido, discourse 29, where while clean and
sombre dances are not condemned, he effectively
proves that immodest dances are ruinous, the

Salvador Castro de
Gistau, Fandango
Boccherini: " imitando
la chitarra dipadre
Basilio


,
---
5-course vs 6-course
1750-69, 6

,
( ) , ,

Vihuela guitar

vs
Tablature vs staff notation (
5 )
,

18
De

Visee

De

Visee Suite in Dm:

Gavotte
Francoix

Campion

Tablature

vs staff
notation ( 5 )
G. Merchi: (
) 1761
5-course guitar
5-string guitar

6-course Guitar by
Sanguino

Giacomo Merchi:
Op.3
Rondo, Minuet

18
5-course vs 6-course
1750-69, 6

,
( ) , ,

vs
Tablature vs staff notation (
5 )

6-course Guitar by
Sanguino

Miguel Garca(fl.
1760-1800)
(Padre Basilio):
Minueto

18

18
vs
: gut
17

(wound string)

18 Guitar France!
vs
: gut
17

(wound string)
6 (guitar france)

18
vs
: gut
17

(wound string)

Unknown (19th century) Portrait of a guitarist with family,

Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909)

Pedrell Terrega
( )

Tarrega

Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909)

La bona vida,
'Vida bona,esta vieja

es la chacona'
rasgueado: ( )
, ,

punteado: (lute, vihuala)

Juan de Aras
(Born:Catalonia,
SpainDied:1649)

Lope de

Vega
chacona: 16

Tarrega

Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909)

Tarrega

Fig. 20 Marguerite Grard - Painter when painting a portrait of

a guitar player