Description

Esteban Daça (ca. 1537-1591-96), “Libro de Música en Cifras para Vihuela. Intitulado El Parnasso”.

• Facsimile
• Language:  Spanish
• 1576 Edition by Diego Fernández de Córdoba
• Format:  15 x 21 cms.  Softcover
• 240 Pages

El Parnasso (Parnassus) is the only known book of music published by Daza. It was printed in 1576 in Valladolid, and contains works for solo vihuela and for vihuela and voice. The full title of the work is Libro de música de cifras para vihuela, intitulado El Parnaso. It is divided into three parts and consists of fantasias and transcriptions for vihuela of polyphonic songs, motets, villancicos, villanescas and sonnets of other composers, such as Pedro Guerrero, Francisco Guerrero, Juan García de Basurto, Jean Maillard, Jean Richafort, Thomas Crecquillon, Simon Boyleau, Rodrigo de Ceballos, Juan de Navarro, Pedro Ordoñez and Clemens non Papa.