Raquel Andueza, La Galanía - El Baile Perdido (2019)

The lost dance includes a selection of sung dances, whose melodies have been reconstructed by musicologist Álvaro Torrente from poems of the time and various indirect testimonies that have been preserved such as poetic metrics, harmonic schemes, guitar strumming patterns. , instrumental variations and, in some cases, fragments included in educated compositions. This is a dozen pieces that allow you to relive the authentic soundtrack of the Spanish Golden Age.

Between the decades of 1580 and 1620 there was the flowering of a wide spectrum of sung dances that, coming from streets, taverns or brothels, became very popular among the people and the elites, spreading rapidly throughout Europe. The poems were mostly anonymous, since many of these dances were banned due to their lascivious and sinful character, although illustrious poets such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega or Quevedo also cultivated them. But, precisely because they are popular music known to all, their melodies were rarely written, so that, in most cases, their loudness fell into oblivion.