Juan Esquivel: A Master of Sacred Music during the Spanish Golden Age Walkley

Juan Esquivel: A Master of Sacred Music during the Spanish Golden AgeAuthor(s): Clive Walkley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781843835875, 978-1843835875\nSynopsis\nFirst study of Juan Esquivel, a highly significant figure in Spanish musical life in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.\n\nJuan Esquivel was a cathedral choirmaster and composer, active in Spain during the period [url] .1623 in which all aspects of the arts flourished, and one of the few peninsular composers of his generation to see his works published. He is known to have produced three large volumes of sacred polyphony - masses, motets, hymns, psalms, magnificats, and Marian antiphons - under the titles Liber primus missarum, Motecta festorum([both published 1608)and Tomus secondus, psalmorum, hymnorum... et missarum (published 1613); they reveal him to be a highly skilled craftsman.\n This first full-length study of his lif.