Cancionero poético de Gaspar Fernández (Puebla 1609 - 1616)
Ciudad de México: Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. 441p., indices, dust jackets, wrps. New. Item #79759
ISBN: 9786079912840
"Cancionero Poético de Gaspar Fernández" is an extensive manuscript compilation of poems set to polyphonic music originating in New Spain at the beginning of the 17th century. Composed between 1609 and 1616 for the Puebla Cathedral, it contains 297 compositions for Christmas celebrations, Corpus Christi and other festivities such as the Kings, the Conception, the Incarnation, the Assumption and the Lost Child. Some of them lack letters and others are written in liturgical text in Latin. The name of Gaspar Fernández appears at the head of 212 pieces in Spanish, and although Margit Frenk has identified the authorship of 58 poems (José de Valdivieso, Lope de Vega, Alonso de Ledesma, Alonso de Bonilla, Luis de Góngora and the New Spain Fernán González de Eslava) most of the poems remain anonymous. It can be assumed that Gaspar Fernández was asked to create music to accompany the verses composed by the inhabitants of Puebla and its surroundings, possibly priests and nuns. In many of them there are reasons to suspect female authorship.
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