Tordesillas
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There are two individuals that could be identified with the surname 'Tordesillas'. They are the brothers 1) Pedro Hernández (or Fernández) de Tordesillas, who belonged to the Castilian royal chapel from 1499 to 1504, and to the Aragonese royal chapel from 1505 to 1511; and 2) Alonso Hernández (Fernández) de Tordesillas, recorded in the Aragonese royal chapel from 1502 to 1516. He was still alive in 1520.
Both Barbieri (1890) and Romeu Figueras (1965) assumed Pedro was the composer. Kreitner (2020) considers Alonso a more likely candidate based on the date of composition of Franceses ¿por qué razón? (in E-Mp II/1335). The song celebrates King Ferdinand's victory in the Battle of Salses (1503), a time when only Alonso was employed at Ferdinand's chapel.
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Barbieri 1890, p. 45
Barbieri, Francisco Asenjo, ed, Cancionero musical de los siglos XV y XVI (Madrid: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, 1890) <http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000010741&page=1>Knighton, Tess, Música y músicos en la corte de Fernando el Católico, 1474-1516 (Zaragoza: Institución Fernando el Católico, 2001), pp. 344–45Kreitner, Kenneth, “The Tordesillas Perplex”, in The Anatomy of Iberian Polyphony around 1500, ed. by Esperanza Rodríguez-García and João Pedro d’Alvarenga, Iberian Early Music Studies, 5 (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2021) pp. 15-26MME 14-1, p. 19
Romeu Figueras, José, ed, La Música en la Corte de los Reyes Católicos. IV-1. Cancionero Musical de Palacio (siglos XV-XVI). Volumen 3-A, Monumentos de la Música Española, 14-1 (Barcelona: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Español de Musicología, 1965) - External references
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