Miguel de Fuenllana, a Spanish vihuelist who…
1554 CE
Miguel de Fuenllana, a Spanish vihuelist who was born blind, publishes a collection of instrumental and vocal music for the six-string guitar, Orphenica Lyra (“Orpheus' Lyre”), in 1554.
Fuenllana is adept at finding apt harmonies and counterpoint to popular melodies: some of these traditional pieces are De los alamos vengo, madre, used by Lope de Vega; Morenica, dame, Con que la lavare, and De Antequera sale el moro; Fuenllana thus presages the coming of the accompanied melody of the Italians at the beginning of the seventeenth century.