Welcome to the Baroque Spanish Solo Vocal Database!
The present project consists of a database of solo vocal works of the Baroque period by Spanish or Latin American Spanish composers. The parameters of the database contents follow:
- The database was originally conceived as an independent study project for course number M556, Independent Readings in Music History, at Indiana University's Jacobs School of music. The project supervisor was Professor Massimo Ossi. For the purposes of the project, the database's contents are a priori limited to holdings within the Cook Music Library at Indiana University. As the project grows, it will welcome any and all submissions and suggestions to expand its contents.
- Works included date from circa 1600 through to the first half of the 18th century. While not exclusive, I have aimed to make the list of composers and repertoire representative of stylistic trends common to the period.
- Solo vocal passages or sections from larger works, such as those from zarzuela, operas, loas or retablos will not be included unless there can be substantiated proof of the independence of said piece (for example, the case of a song which was later appropriated by a playwright or composer to be part of a larger work.) A future version of this database may include these.
- By and large the contents are limited to songs, tonos, tonadas, cantadas and cantadas solas, aires, and the like. Works that are incomplete have not been included unless the incomplete state refers only to one section of a larger work, such as a recitado or estribillo within an otherwise complete cantata, etc.
- I have included solo sacred music only when the works stand alone as solo pieces or as short, non-dramatic works (for example, solo passages from longer sacred works, such as autos sacramentales, have not been included in this projects database).
Suggestions and submissions, as well as feedback, are always welcome. Please contact the project director, Wolodymyr Smishkewych, at wjsmishk at indiana dot edu.
Credits:
Coding, search engine construction & Design: Jeremy Gottwig
Concept & database design: Wolodymyr Smishkewych
Last updated:
October 23, 2007