La Música, but Music too: new canons by Tomás de Iriarte

Abstract

Tomás de Iriarte has gone down in history as one of the most important Spanish Neoclassicism writers. Beyond, he contributed to the theory of sound art in the 18th century with his didactic poem La música. However, Iriarte was also an amateur player of instruments like the viola and he had important activity as a composer. In spite of this, until now we only know the music of his melologist Guzmán el Bueno and a collection of seventeen canons. These canons are preserved in a source of the Superior Music Conservatory of Madrid and they have been published only a decade ago. Nevertheless, in this research, we present another oldest and most complete canons collection than the aforementioned. It is unpublished to date and it contains more than twenty works different from those collected in the Madrid source.