Number of participants: 15
Languages: Czech, English, Spanish, German
Price: 2600 CZK/Students 2000 CZK

Fernando Marín

Fernando Marín, Spanish gambist and cellist, holds a doctorate in musicology and is specialized in early bowed instruments of the Renaissance and Baroque. He studied at HAMU in Prague, Cologne and Brussels. He has published five solo CDs. In 2004 founded with Nadine Balbeisi Cantar alla Viola, researching and recording music for voice accompanied with a viol. Currently he designs and builds his own historical instruments and produces and supervises his own recordings.

He regularly collaborates with Capilla de Ministrers and Carles Magraner in concerts and recordings. He has also published articles on musical rhetoric, improvisation, and interpretation. In 2017 he won a Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators of the BBVA Foundation with a project about Vihuelas de arco. Since 2003 he is the Viola da Gamba teacher at the Conservatory of Zaragoza.

www.vihueladaarco.com, www.cantarallaviola.com

Program of the class

The Madrigal in late Renaissance Spain (Part II)

We will explore the Spanish music of the late Renaissance studying works from Cancionero de Sablonara (1599-1633) and by Juan Blas de Castro (1561-1631) or Pedro Ruimonte (1565-1627). This music had its influences in the Italian madrigal, a development of the 15thcentury frottola and canzona, and the transitional style leading into the early baroque. In this period, Flemish composers also influenced the Spanish Madrigal through the connection of the Spanish chapels in the Netherlands. In Spain the madrigal developed from popular song, like those appearing in the Cancioneros de Upsala and Palacio, into the classic polyphonic villancico which had the harmonic counterpoint advances of the Italian madrigal technique. These Spanish works are characterized by a rich mixture of polyphonic style with highly complex interwoven counterpoint and are written with local vernacular poetry. These poems with allegoric allusions and affects allowed the development of new expressive possibilities through the use of chromatism and rhetorical figures.