Organ; Early Music
SKU: UT.ECHOM-7
Composed by Manuel
Rodrigues Coelho. Edited
by Joao Vaz. ECHO
Collection of Historical
Organ Music. Early Music.
Score. Ut Orpheus #ECHOM
7. Published by Ut
Orpheus (UT.ECHOM-7).
ISBN 9790215328372. 9
x 12 inches.
Manuel
Rodrigues Coelho was born
in Elvas, in the Eastern
part of Portugal, around
1555 and died in Lisbon
in 1635. During his life
he held positions as an
organist in his hometown
and in Badajoz (Spain),
later being appointed
organist of the Royal
Chapel in Lisbon.
Flores de musica,
his only known work, was
printed in Lisbon in 1620
by Pedro Craesbeeck.
The original edition
of Flores de
música is a volume
with 235 folios of music
printed in open score.
All the musical pieces
use a system of four
staves, except for the
so-called Versos para
se cantarem ao orgão
(Verses to be sung at the
organ), which use five
staves (four for the
organ and one for the
line which is to be
sung). The musical text
is preceded by a
twelve-page introductory
section including
Coelho’s dedication to
the king, the printing
licence, the technical
opinion of the eminent
polyphonist Frei Manuel
Cardoso (1566-1650), five
poems (by different
authors) in praise of
Coelho and his music and
a Prologo and
Advertencias
particulares by the
composer.
manuel-cardoso
