EL SARAO DE LA CHACONA

The Sarao de la Chacona recovers for the first time in a comprehensive way the compositions of Joan Araniés, published in Rome in the year 1624. Most of the pieces collected there harmonize with the profane hispanic repertoire characteristic of the first half of the XVII century. The most representative genre of the collection is romance. The popular basis, dyed with refinements and cultism, is the dominant element of the texts of a musical repertoire that has been preserved almost in manuscript form and from which, for this same reason, we only know a small sample of everything that should have circulated during the first decades of the seventeenth century. The texts musicalized by Araniés are an excellent sample of this new perception and poetic sensibility.