Quito’s Church of La Compañía (“kohm-pahn-YEE-ah”) houses a rare surviving one of these instruments, which Alonso Morón taught in colonial Cuba. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this early instrument taught using Enríquez de Valderrábano’s book Silva de Sirenas, which eclipsed the lute in the Iberian Peninsula. It shares its name with a high-pitched counterpart of the guitarrón in Mariachi bands.
ANSWER: vihuela (“vee-WAY-lah”) [accept vihuela de mano or viola de mão; accept vihuela de arco; accept vihuela de péñola; accept vihuela mexicana or Mexican vihuela; reject “viola” alone]
[10h] The vihuelist Luis de Narváez influenced this blind 16th-century composer, whose Obras de música para tecla, arpa y vihuela includes some of the first Iberian keyboard music. This organist composed many tientos.
ANSWER: Antonio de Cabezón
[10e] Miguel de Fuenllana (“fwen-YAH-nah”), another blind composer and vihuelist, wrote his Orphénica Lyrica for this monarch. This late-Renaissance monarch originally built the namesake palace of Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez (“ah-rahn-HWAYS”).
ANSWER: Philip II of Spain [accept Philip the Prudent, or Philip I of Portugal; accept “Felipe” in place of “Philip”; accept el Prudente in place of “the Prudent”; prompt on Philip or Felipe]
<Nick Jensen, Classical Music and Opera>