Description
Celebrating the 400 anniversary of the publication of the Flores de musica pera o instrumento de tecla & harpa by priest Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (Lisbon, Pedro Craesbeeck, 1620), a new edition in three volumes curated by João Vaz is being currently published by Ut Orpheus (Bologna, 2020 – ), under the auspices of ECHO – European Cities of Historical Organs. This major collection of keyboard and harp music containing 24 tentos, 100 versets and 4 susanas (keyboard versions of Orlando de Lasso’s chanson Susanne un Jour) was edited and published before in modern times by Macario Santiago Kastner (Lisbon, Calouste Goulbenkian Foundation, 1959 – 1961). On what concerns particularly the organ, the Flores de Música by Rodrigues Coelho, closely together with the famous Libro de tientos y discursos de música práctica, y teórica de órgano, intitulado Facultad orgánica by the Spanish composer Francisco Correa de Arauxo (Alcalá de Henares, Antonio Arnao, 1626), is considered nowadays one of the pillars of the Iberian keyboard repertoire. Although, diversely from Correa de Arauxo’s Facultad Organica, certainly written for a split keyboard organ of Castilian roots conventionally identified as “Iberian Organ”, contemporary Rodrigues Coelho’s keyboard music collection seems not to being written for this kind of instrument. This paper aims to inquire about the organs Rodrigues Coelho used to play in Elvas, Badajoz and Lisbon – cities where he served as an organist – and their eventual relation with the composition of his Flores de Música in the transition from Renaissance to Baroque, a period of crucial transformations both concerning the organ-making and the organ music composition and practice.| Period | 24 Aug 2022 |
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| Event title | IMS2022 21st Quinquennial Congress of the International Musicological Society: Music across Borders |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Athens, GreeceShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |