Life, Death, Nature, and Faith: The Spanish Vihuela Songs of Alonso Mudarra

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This project examines the connection between music and text in works for solo voice and vihuela de mano by sixteenth century composer Alonso Mudarra. In addition to outlining the vihuela’s history as an important, yet transitory, ancestor to the modern guitar, the paper provides a detailed analysis of a selection of Mudarra’s compositions, with particular regard to text painting and conjectured musical commentary on themes of life, death, nature, and faith.

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Winner of the Friends of Fondren Library Undergraduate Research Awards, 2010
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Bandy, Amalia. "Life, Death, Nature, and Faith: The Spanish Vihuela Songs of Alonso Mudarra." (2010) Rice University: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/27496.

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