Music takes over the Palace - National Heritage

Amor, no te llame amor.

This first verse of "El Caballero de Olmedo", one of the best-known works by Lope de Vega, gives the title to this program that focuses on the music that accompanied the plays of the Spanish Golden Age, solo songs with text generally profane whose origin is found in the songs or airs of comedies, operas and zarzuelas and which were called tones. These songs, or tones , became detached from the original works for which they were initially intended, and became part of an independent repertoire within court circles, not only Spanish, but also Austrian and French, where this music had great success. The musical characteristics of the tones are their simple melody, with a popular air, and their great rhythmic complexity, highlighted by the accompaniment of the Spanish guitar.

While in the rest of Europe, due to Italian influence, the succession of Recitative and…