Bruno Forst - Arte de Tanger: Gonzalo de Baena's New Keyboard Method (1540) (2018)

Gonzalo de Baena’s Arte novamente inventada pera aprender a tãger (Newly devised method for learning to play) was the first book of keyboard music ever printed on the Iberian Peninsula. Lost for centuries, it was rediscovered in 1992, and early music keyboardist Bruno Forst has since painstakingly decoded its unique tablature system and edited a modern edition, published in 2012. Baena compiled mostly polyphonic vocal music by various composers, from the old Flemish Masters he himself studied, to contemporaries thriving alongside him in the rich musical environment of Spain under the Catholic Monarchs, along with pieces of his own and several by his son, Antonio. To disseminate this music in arrangements for keyboardists, professional or amateur, Baena transcribed them in an easy to read tablature notation and ordered the pieces in increasing level of difficulty. While his collection, printed in 1540, was pedagogical in intent, Baena nevertheless left a valuable historic document to posterity, creating a faithful depiction of the place and time that gave birth to later masters such as Antonio de Cabezón.

Tracklist:
1 In diebus illis 00:03:48 Forst, Bruno
2 2 Verses of a Magnificat 00:03:34 Forst, Bruno
3 Pange lingua 00:01:52 Forst, Bruno
4 Congratulamini mihi omnes 00:03:06 Forst, Bruno
5 Kyrie eleison de nuestra señora 00:03:06 Forst, Bruno
6 Unica est columba mea 00:02:29 Forst, Bruno
7 Kyrie eleison 4 tono 00:01:33 Forst, Bruno
8 Kyrie eleison 8 tono 00:01:24 Forst, Bruno
9 Conditor alme siderum 00:02:23 Forst, Bruno
10 Clamabat autem mulier cananea 00:03:53 Forst, Bruno
11 [untitled] 00:00:51 Forst, Bruno
12 Patrem omnipotentem 00:02:26 Forst, Bruno
13 Jesu nostra redemption 00:02:12 Forst, Bruno
14 Deposuit potentes 00:01:31 Forst, Bruno
15 Si dedero 00:01:29 Forst, Bruno
16 Ave maris stella 00:01:30 Forst, Bruno
17 Agnus dei 00:04:56 Forst, Bruno
18 Kyrie eleison 00:01:26 Forst, Bruno
19 Sanctus 00:07:23 Forst, Bruno
20 Pleni sunt 00:02:03 Forst, Bruno
21 Kyrie eleison 6 tono 00:05:41 Forst, Bruno
22 Sanctus 00:02:37 Forst, Bruno
23 Domine deus 00:01:36 Forst, Bruno
24 1º tono 00:01:04 Forst, Bruno
25 Credo 00:05:20 Forst, Bruno
26 Et iterum venturus est cum Gloria 00:00:55 Forst, Bruno
27 Benedictus qui venit 00:01:57 Forst, Bruno
28 Pleni sunt 00:01:15 Forst, Bruno
29 Agnus Dei 00:03:21 Forst, Bruno
30 Benedictus 00:00:58 Forst, Bruno
31 Sanctus 00:03:36 Forst, Bruno
32 Missa, "Fortuna desperata": Benedictus 00:01:52 Forst, Bruno
33 Pleni sunt 00:02:27 Forst, Bruno
34 Si sumpsero penas meas 00:04:08 Forst, Bruno
35 In pace, in idipsum dormiam 00:03:36 Forst, Bruno
36 Si dedero 00:02:38 Forst, Bruno
37 Gloria 00:04:35 Forst, Bruno
38 Agnus Dei 00:02:53 Forst, Bruno
39 Sanctus 00:05:07 Forst, Bruno
40 Patrem omipotentem 00:04:53 Forst, Bruno
41 Agnus dei 00:02:28 Forst, Bruno
42 Mater patris et filia 00:02:41 Forst, Bruno
43 Agnus dei 00:03:38 Forst, Bruno
44 Helas que poura devenir 00:03:32 Forst, Bruno
45 Motete del ciego 00:09:12 Forst, Bruno