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Endecha
The endecha (often used in the plural ''endechas'') is a subgenre of lament, ''planto'', found in early Iberian music. It usually indicates a metrical composition of 4 verses with 6 or 7 syllables. The endecha is essentially a musical form; a hexasyllable. The verb endechar - to lament, to sing endechas, is rarely encountered, though found in testimonies by Alfonso de Palencia. It comes from the time before the Alhambra Decree, Expulsion of 1492, and was used within the Jewish community, though popular poems in Galicia already used this type of versification.Manuel Alvar, ''Endechas judeo-españolas'', Granada, 1953 Compositions * A prelude in Dm by Francisco Tárrega * 5 Endechas for classical guitar by Alfonso Montes. ECH769 Recordings * ''Endechar - Lament for Spain'' (Sephardic Romances and Songs). Capilla Antigua de Chinchilla, Ferrero. Naxos 2010. References {{Music of Spain Spanish music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hexasyllable
{{Unreferenced, date=May 2021 The hexasyllable or hexasyllabic verse is a line of verse with six syllables. The orphan hexasyllable is a metric specificity of certain French epic poems. This kind of verse in the Garin de Monglane's Song in a 14th-century manuscript turns out original in an epic production. Hexasyllable is sometimes used in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese poetry. See also * octosyllable * decasyllable * hendecasyllable * dodecasyllable Dodecasyllable verse ({{Lang-it, dodecasillabo) is a line of verse with twelve syllables. 12 syllable lines are used in a variety of poetic traditions. Jacob of Serugh (c. 451 – 29 November 521), a Miaphysite Bishop of Batnan da-Srugh, also ... References * Diccionario de la lengua española © 2005 Espasa-Calpe Types of verses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfonso De Palencia
Alfonso Fernández de Palencia (1423–1492) was a Castilian royal secretary, historian, and humanist scholar. He first served Enrique IV of Castile and later played an active role in the political intrigue that ultimately brought Fernando II to Castile and put Isabel I on the throne. His chronicles, the ''Décadas'', are an important historical source for this period. Life Alfonso de Palencia was born in Palencia in 1423, the son of a secretary. By 1440, at the age of seventeen, he was in the household of Alfonso de Cartagena, Bishop of Burgos. In 1441 he participated in a mission on behalf of King Juan II of Castile to meet with Álvaro de Luna, a powerful Castilian noble and a favorite of the king.Tate 2003 Later, Palencia traveled to Florence where he entered the service of Cardinal Bessarion, with whom he remained until 1453. He also became acquainted with Vespasiano da Bisticci and studied the humanities with George of Trebizond in Rome. After nearly ten years in Italy, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alhambra Decree
The Alhambra Decree (also known as the Edict of Expulsion; Spanish: ''Decreto de la Alhambra'', ''Edicto de Granada'') was an edict issued on 31 March 1492, by the joint Catholic Monarchs of Spain (Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon) ordering the expulsion of practising Jews from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon and its territories and possessions by 31 July of that year. The primary purpose was to eliminate the influence of practising Jews on Spain's large formerly-Jewish ''converso'' New Christian population, to ensure the latter and their descendants did not revert to Judaism. Over half of Spain's Jews had converted as a result of the religious persecution and pogroms which occurred in 1391. Due to continuing attacks, around 50,000 more had converted by 1415. A further number of those remaining chose to convert to avoid expulsion. As a result of the Alhambra decree and persecution in the years leading up to the expulsion, of Spain's estimated 300,000 Jewish o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Tárrega
Francisco de Asís Tárrega Eixea (21 November 185215 December 1909) was a Spanish composer and classical guitarist of the late Romantic period. He is known for such pieces as Capricho Árabe and ''Recuerdos de la Alhambra''. He is often called "the father of classical guitar" and is considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Biography Tárrega was born on 21 November 1852, in Villarreal, Province of Castellón, Spain. It is said that Francisco's father played flamenco and several other music styles on his guitar; when his father was away working as a watchman at the Convent of San Pascual, Francisco would take his father's guitar and attempt to make the beautiful sounds he had heard. Francisco's nickname as a child was "Quiquet". As a child, he ran away from his nanny and fell into an irrigation channel and injured his eyes. Fearing that his son might lose his sight completely, his father moved the family to Castellón de la Plana to attend music classes because a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
