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- Title
EL EMBLEMA MUSICAL DE LA VANITAS EN EL TRATADO INSTRUMENTAL DE LUIS VENEGAS DE HENESTROSA (1557).
- Authors
Seguí, Montiel
- Abstract
In 1557 the Libro de cifra nueva para tecla, arpa y vihuela, written by the priest Luis Venegas de Henestrosa, was published in Alcalá de Henares by the press of Juan de Brocar. Dedicated to the bishop of Jaén, Diego Tavera, and paying homage to the late Cardinal Juan Pardo de Tavera, the treatise included in its initial pages an emblem with a message about the transience of life or vanitas. The rhetorical-musical iconographic program becomes a mysterious image, implicitly carrying the three faculties of time: the past, the present and the future. The emblematic corpus is configured by merging the different arts with a musical enigma that sings Coplas por la muerte de su padre, Recuerde el alma dormida, by Don Jorge Manrique, with images ready to be interpreted and with messages veiled in psalms and biblical references. Underlying it all is a moralizing intent. This is the first musical emblem of Spain with notation spellings that have been conserved, remarkable if we consider Andrea Alciato’s publication (1531) as the starting point of the so-called emblematic genre.
- Publication
Imago (22549633), 2021, Issue 13, p7
- ISSN
2254-9633
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7203/imago.13.21911