El falcesino Fray Benito de Navarra (ca. 1610-después de 1679), maestro de capilla de San Bartolomé de Lupiana (Guadalajara) [Fray Benito de Navarra (Falces ca. 1610-after 1679), maestro de capilla in St. Bartholomew in Lupiana (Guadalajara)]

Abstract

This article examines the composer and Hieronymite monk Benito Martínez de Artieda, who was born in Falces. He developed a career as composer and maestro de capilla at the Monastery of St. Bartholomew (Lupiana), and the documentation preserved in the National Historical Archive (Madrid) gives evidence of this. Regardless of his secondary role, his works are key to illustrate the evolution of sacred music, from his masters (Mateo Romero, among others) to his disciples, as well as in polychoral techniques. We reconsider some elements on the historiography of Spanish music schools. The sequence of Veni, Sancte Spiritus (library of El Escorial), an example of polychoral

Baroque, is transcribed.