Bartomeu Càrceres
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Bartomeu Càrceres was a Catalan composer, notably of ensaladas
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The sole verifiable biographical fact known about him is the record in 1546 of a payment of 72 ducats to him as "carrier of the books" to the capella of the Duke of Calabria, Ferran d'Aragó. His salary was half that of the maestro de capilla, Juan de Cepa.
Manuscript M1166-M1967 of the Biblioteca de Catalunya includes works by both Càrceres and Cepa. For example the villancico Soleta y verge, an adaption of a secular song from the Cancionero de Upsala
appears in a version for three voices by Càrceres and a variation developed from this for five voices with refrain by Cepa.
Sacred works
Secular works
Ensalada (music)
The ensalada is a genre of polyphonic secular music mixing languages and dialects and nonsensical quodlibets.The term is known mainly through a publication, Las Ensaladas de Flecha Prague by Mateo Flecha the younger, that contains six long four-part vocal compositions by his uncle Mateo Flecha...
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The sole verifiable biographical fact known about him is the record in 1546 of a payment of 72 ducats to him as "carrier of the books" to the capella of the Duke of Calabria, Ferran d'Aragó. His salary was half that of the maestro de capilla, Juan de Cepa.
Manuscript M1166-M1967 of the Biblioteca de Catalunya includes works by both Càrceres and Cepa. For example the villancico Soleta y verge, an adaption of a secular song from the Cancionero de Upsala
Cancionero de Upsala
The is the title commonly given to a volume of mostly anonymous Spanish music printed in Venice in 1556 and actually titled Villancicos de diuersos Autores, a dos, y a tres, y a quatro, y ya a cinco bozes...Venetiis, Apud Hieronymum Scotum, MDLVI...
appears in a version for three voices by Càrceres and a variation developed from this for five voices with refrain by Cepa.
Works
Sacred works
- Missa de desponsatione beatae Mariae
- Elegit sibi Dominus
- Vias tuas, Domine
- Lamentation Lamech - O vos omnes
Secular works
- Al jorn del judici
- Soleta yo so / Soleta y verge
- Falalalanlera
- Toca Juan tu rabelejo
- Remedio del primer padre
- Nunca tal cosa se vio
- ensalada; La trulla ("Hubbub")
Recordings
- Bartomeu Càrceres - Villancicos & Ensaladas. Jordi SavallJordi SavallJordi Savall i Bernadet is a Catalan viol player, conductor and composer. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for bringing the viol back to life on the stage...
- Bartomeu Càrceres - Ensaladas. Capella de MinistrersCapella de MinistrersCapella de Ministrers is an early music group formed in 1987 in Valencia, Spain by its director, the Valencian musicologist Carles Magraner ....
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