Santiago de Murcia

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Santiago de Murcia (born July 25, 1673 in Madrid , † April 25, 1739 ibid) was a Spanish guitarist , composer and music theorist.

Santiago de Murcia was born as the son of Juliana de Leon and Gabriel de Murcia, who worked as musicians and instrument makers at the Spanish royal court.

From 1693 Murcia was a student of the guitarist, composer and cantor Francisco Guerau (1649–1722) in the choir of the royal chapel in Madrid. He also learned from the composer and bass viola player Antonio de Literes . He traveled to Naples in 1702 and in 1704 became the guitar teacher of Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy , the young wife of King Philip V. Around 1714 he was employed by Jácome Francisco Andriani, the "Knight of the Order of Santiago, Envoy Extraordinary of the Catholic Cantons".

He traveled through France and the Spanish Netherlands . The discovery of three factories in Mexico and Chile gave rise to the opinion that Murcia was traveling or relocating to the new world. Most likely, however, there were only trade relationships.

Santiago de Murcia arranged some compositions by the Flemish guitarist François Le Cocq († 1729) and claimed to be the author.

Scientifically fundamental dealt with Santiago de Murcia and his work above all Craig H. Russell and Monica Hall.

Works

  • 1714: Resumen de acompañar la parte con la guitarra. Antwerp 1714.
    • This includes: La Guastala, Menuet, Otro and Preludio
  • 1722: Cifras selectas de guitarra
  • 1732 (originally a two-volume manuscript):
    • Códice Saldívar No. 4 (also called Saldívar Codex No. 4 , named after the Mexican music historian Gabriel Saldívar, who discovered the manuscript in León in 1943 )
      • This includes: Marionas, Fandango , Jácaras, Zangarilleja ("messy female person, slut, slut") and Cumbées (cf. Cumbia )
    • Passacalles y obras de guitarra por todos los tonos naturals y acidentales. (British Library London, Add. MS 31640)
      • This includes: Passacalles (Compassillo, Proporción ) and Suite (Preludio, Allemanda, Correnta, Zarabanda Despacio, Gabotta and Giga) and further suites (Preludio with Allegro part, Allemanda, Correnta, Zarabanda Despacio, Giga with Allegro part and Giga with Allegro Dulzaina)

literature

  • Frank Koonce: The Baroque Guitar in Spain and the New World. Mel Bay Publications, Pacific, Mon. 2006, ISBN 978-078-667-525-8 , pp. 71-128.
  • Craig H. Russell: Santiago de Murcia's “Códice Saldívar No. 4: “A Treasury of Secular Guitar Music from Baroque Mexico. 2 volumes. University of Illinois Press, Urbana 1995.
  • Craig H. Russell: Santiago de Murcia: The French Connection in Baroque Spain. In: Journal of the Lute Society of America. Volume 15, 1982, pp. 40-51.
  • Monica Hall: Santiago de Murcia and François le Cocq. In: Journal of the Lute Society of America. Volume 16, 1983, pp. 3-7.
  • Robert Stevenson: Santiago de Murcia: A Review Article. In: Inter-American Music Review. Volume 3, No. 1, 1980, pp. 89-97.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alejandro Vera: Santiago de Murcia (1673–1739): new contributions on his life and work . In: Early Music . tape 36 , no. 4 , November 1, 2008, p. 597–608 , doi : 10.1093 / em / can127 (English).
  2. ^ Francisco Guerau: Poema harmonico, compuesto de varias cifras por el temple de la guitarra española […]. Madrid 1694. Facsimile reprint, introduced and translated by Brian Jeffery, Tecla Editions, London 1977; in modern transcription by Thomas Schmitt, Editorial Alpuerto, Madrid 2000.
  3. ↑ On Francisco Guerau cf. also Frank Koonce: The Baroque Guitar in Spain and the New World. Mel Bay Publications, Pacific, Mon. 2006, ISBN 978-078-667-525-8 , pp. 59-70.
  4. ↑ James Tyler: A Guide to Playing the Baroque Guitar. Indiana University Press, Bloomington / Indianapolis 2011, ISBN 978-0-253-22289-3 , pp. 80 f. and (on Francisco Guerau) p. 109 f.
  5. ↑ Craig H. Russell: Santiago de Murcia: Spanish Theorist and Guitarist of the Early Eighteenth Century. 2 volumes. Philosophical dissertation. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981.
  6. ↑ Monica Hall: The Guitar Anthologies of Santiago de Murcia. 2 volumes. Philosophical dissertation. Open University, UK, 1983.
  7. ^ [Complete edition:] Santiago de Murcia. Obras completas para guitarra . Published by Antonio Company. Madrid 1995.
  8. ↑ Cf. Elena Machado Lowenfeld: Santiago de Murcia's Thorough-Bass Treatise for Baroque Guitar (1714). Introduction, Translation, and Transcription. Master's thesis, City University of New York 1974.
  9. ↑ Cf. also Monica Hall: Introduction to Santiago de Murcia, Resumen de acompañar la parte con la guitarra (Antwerp, 1714), facsimile reprint Editions Chanterelle, Monaco 1980, p. VIII.
  10. ^ Frank Koonce: The Baroque Guitar in Spain and the New World. 2006, p. 82.
  11. ↑ Michael Lorimer: Saldívar Codex No. 4: Santiago de Murcia manuscript of baroque guitar musc (c. 1732) found and acquired in September 1943 in León, Guanajuato, Mexico by the Mexican musicologist Dr. Gabriel Saldívar y Silva (1909–1980). Self-published, Santa Barbara 1987.
  12. ↑ Craig H. Russell: Santiago de Murcia's “Códice Saldívar No. 4 “: A Treasury of Secular Guitar Music from Baroque Mexico. University of Illinois, Urbana.
  13. ^ Frank Koonce: The Baroque Guitar in Spain and the New World. 2006, pp. 99-125.
  14. ↑ [from it individual pieces also in:] Guitar music of the 16. – 18. Century. According to tablature ed. by Adalbert Quadt. Volume 1-4. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1970 ff .; 2nd edition ibid 1975-1984, volume 4, pp. 39-55 (two suites and three passacaglias).
personal data
SURNAME Murcia, Santiago de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish guitarist, composer and music theorist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1673
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1739
Place of death Madrid