Gonzalo de Baena's Arte novamente inventada pera aprender a tager (Newly devised method for learning to play) was the first book of keyboard music ever printed on the Iberian Peninsula. Lost for centuries, it was rediscovered in 1992, and early music keyboardist Bruno Forst has since painstakingly decoded it's unique tablature system and edited a modern edition, published in 2012. Baena compiled mostly polyphonic vocal music by various composers, from the old Flemish Masters he himself studied, to contemporaries thriving alongside him in the rich musical environment of Spain under the Catholic Monarchs, along with pieces of his own and several by his son, Antonio. To disseminate this music in arrangements for keyboardists, professional or amateur, Baena transcribed them in an easy to read tablature notation and ordered the pieces in increasing level of difficulty. While his collection, printed in 1540, was pedagogical in intent, Baena nevertheless left a valuable historic document to posterity, creating a faithful depiction of the place and time that gave birth to later masters such as Antonio de Cabezon.

Tracklist:

In Diebus Illis
Two Verses Of A Magnificat
Pange Lingua
Congratulamini Mihi Omnes
Kyrie Eleison De Nuestra Señora
Unica Est Columba Mea
Kyrie Eleison 4º Tono
Kyrie Eleison 8º Tono
Conditor Alme Siderum
Clamabat Autem Mulier Cananea
No Title
Patrem Omnipotentem
Jesu Nostra Redemption
Deposuit Potentes
Si Dedero
Ave Maris Stella
Agnus Dei
Kyrie Eleison
Sanctus
Pleni Sunt
Kyrie Eleison 6º Tono
Sanctus (2)
Domine Deus
1º Tono
Credo
Et Iterum Venturus Est Cum Gloria
Benedictus
Pleni Sunt
Agnus Dei
Benedictus
Sanctus
Benedictus. Mass Fortuna Desperate
Pleni Sunt (2)
Si Sumpsero Penas Meas
In Pace, In Idipsum Dormiam
Si Dedero
Gloria
Agnus Dei (2)
Sanctus
Patrem Omipotentem
Agnus Dei
Mater Patris
Agnus Dei
Hélas Que Pourra Devenir
Motete Del Ciego

UPC: 5028421956183
Label: Brilliant Classics
Release Date: 3.23.18
Format: CD

Bruno Forst - Arte de Tanger (CD)