Spanish music from 500 years ago
Apr. 12th, 2026 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeThis afternoon I went to a concert called “Music of Arabian Spain” – the guitarist David Rogers played a variety of works by the Valencian composer Luis Milan as well as some traditional North African-style music from Andalusia and a work by Alonso Mudarra. The composers lived in the 1500-1580 range. Rather than playing a guitar, he actually played a vihuela, which is a very guitar-like instrument. On two of the pieces he was accompanied by my neighbor RP, who played two sizes of viol.
The music was lovely, and the audience of about 30 people definitely enjoyed it, but I was distracted by the five women sitting in front of me, who were at least as interested in each other as they were in the concert. Another woman asked them to please stop talking, and that helped, but there were still a lot of gestures. Eventually I decided to mostly close my eyes.
Later I spent an hour with Momo. DG and AA aren’t returning until Tuesday, but Momo is getting lots of attention because another friend is spending time with him in the mornings, too. He is a very affectionate cat – almost 16 years old.
The music was lovely, and the audience of about 30 people definitely enjoyed it, but I was distracted by the five women sitting in front of me, who were at least as interested in each other as they were in the concert. Another woman asked them to please stop talking, and that helped, but there were still a lot of gestures. Eventually I decided to mostly close my eyes.
Later I spent an hour with Momo. DG and AA aren’t returning until Tuesday, but Momo is getting lots of attention because another friend is spending time with him in the mornings, too. He is a very affectionate cat – almost 16 years old.