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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

 

Taken from Don Quixote, Musicke’s Cordes’ program title recognizes the remarkable power of music across the centuries. With Europe’s exploration of  “a New World,” Spain sat as a gateway to the Americas, a window on Africa, and a source of inspiration to the rest of Europe with new instruments and new rhythms. This program explores Spanish music, Spanish interpretations of New World musics, and even interpretations of these interpretations by Italian, French and German musicians. Ranging from the Renaissance into the late 17^thcentury, these small gems celebrate virtuosic variations, sultry passacailles, toe-tapping ciaconnas and more for baroque violin, early guitars, and theorbo. 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

Click here to learn more about the artists.

 

Tickets will go on sale around April 6.

 

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)
     from 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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