Background
Ara��s was born in Catalonia, at an unknown date.
Ara��s was born in Catalonia, at an unknown date.
His tonos and villancicos follow the style of those preserved in the Cancionero of Krak�w. After studies in Alcal� de Henares, he was maestro di cappella at the Spanish embassy in Rome, where in 1624 he published his Libro Segundo de tonos y villancicos. The first book is lost.
The Libro Segundo collection contains 12 pieces of 1, 2, and 3 voices, tonos humanos and villancicos, the final being a vocal chaconne for 4 voices, A la vida bona which features in the works of Cervantes. The collection is notable for its guitar accompaniment in Italian notation. He died in or after 1649.
Works, editions and recordings A la vida bona for 4 voices - on (i) Musica en el Quijote y otras obras de Miguel de Cervantes, Orph�nica Lyra (Glossa, 2005) and (ii) Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha: Romances y M�sicas dir. Jordi Savall, Hesperion XXI, (Alia Vox, 2006). Nuevo Sarao performed his works at the Festival de M�sica Antiga dels Pirineus in 2011 and recorded his complete works.