Spanish Music Research Paper

Prehistorical Music Spanish music begins singing and knocking or percuting different objects. Adding pieces of skins to vessels, whistling on pipes or rubbing strings offer interesting effects. Painting on walls in caves prove it, specially in Mediterranean area. Roman Hispanic literature presents allusions to instruments, andalouisan dancer girls or habitudes, but we cannot always imagine the way in wich performing was made.
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Painting on Walls: dancers?

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Beatus from Silos Hispanic Music Until 11th century our Peninsula cultivated a music written by pneumata. In spite of its visigothic origin, it has been called mozarabic singing. It was performed during lithurgic ceremonies and it is yet
Gregorian |
|singing -produced by Gregorius I's (540-604) reformations between 6th and 13th centuries- was performed by a single voice during the Mass. |
|One of its variations is called tropos, short text sung between longer pieces. |
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| Works in this style are included in Calixtinus Codex, Red Book from Montserrat and the Burgos, Huelgas' Monastery one. The trouble is |
|whether they come from a peninsular source or not.
Berenguer de Palou (ca.1164), Guillém de Berguedá (1138-1192) and Guillem de |
|Cabestany (ca.1212) came from Catalonia. |
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