- These passacaglias are anonymously included in Martín y Coll’s collection, Flores de música. He might have written them, or he might have just collected them.1
- In Martín y Coll’s manuscript, these passacaglias were arranged for organ. In this recording, they’re arranged for strings and continuo.
- Genre: in the manuscript these are called by the Spanish name, passacalle, which means “walking in the street.” The genre originated in Spain as guitar interludes between verses of street songs/serenades. 2
- The passacalle form is built on a repeating bass line or harmonic pattern.3
- Read more about passacaglia in Oxford Reference
Sources
- Marie Leonhardt, liner notes to The Great Chaconnes of the Baroque, Ensemble Baroque de Mateus, Marie Leonhardt, Canal Grande 9109, Cd, 1992.
- Ibid.
- Harvard Dictionary of Music, 4th ed., s.v. “Passacaglia” (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003).
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