Hernandez/Vilas - Various: The Guerra Manuscript Vol. 4

The Guerra Manuscript, named after its copyist Jos� Miguel de Guerra y Villegas, is a repository of one hundred of the greatest secular songs (tonos humanos) circulating in the Madrid court of seventeenth-century Spain. The songs were composed by the leading figures of the Spanish Baroque and include many by the most prestigious of all, Jos� Mar�n and Juan Hidalgo. Ideally accompanied by one of the principal Spanish baroque instruments, the arpa de dos �rdenes (double harp), they explore ideas of love, praise, and beauty. This volume includes perhaps the best-known song of all, Coraz�n que en prisi�n.