Diego Ortiz was a Spanish

Spain

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 composer

Composer

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 and musicologist, in service to the Spanish viceroy

Viceroy

A viceroy is a royal official who runs a country, colony, or province in the name of and as representative of the monarch. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice-, meaning "in the place of" and the French word roi, meaning king. A viceroy's province or larger territory is called a viceroyalty...

 in Naples

Naples

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 (Pedro de Urries) and later to Philip II of Spain

Philip II of Spain

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. Ortiz published influential treatises on both instrumental and vocal performance.

Biography

Very little is known about his life. He is believed to have been born in Toledo

Toledo, Spain

Toledo's Alcázar became renowned in the 19th and 20th centuries as a military academy. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 its garrison was famously besieged by Republican forces.-Economy:...

 and died in Naples

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Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

.

In 1553 Ortiz was living in the viceroyalty of Naples. Five years later, the third duke of Alba, Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, appointed him maestro di capella

Kapellmeister

Kapellmeister is a German word designating a person in charge of music-making. The word is a compound, consisting of the roots Kapelle and Meister . The words Kapelle and Meister derive from the Latin: capella and magister...

 of the Chapel Royal of Naples

Chapel Royal of Naples

The Chapel Royal of Naples was the sacred musical establishment of the Spanish court in Naples which began with the Catalan-Aragonese Court of Naples, and continued to the Habsburgs the Bourbons, and Joseph Napoleon....

. In 1565 Ortiz still held the post under the Viceroy Pedro Afán de Ribera

Pedro Afán de Ribera

Pedro Afán de Ribera, 1st Duke of Alcalá de los Gazules , also known as Pedro Enriquez Afan de Ribera, was a Spanish nobleman most notable for his twelve-year-long service as Viceroy of Naples.-Life:...

, duke of Alcalá.

Works

Ortiz published two music books: Trattado de Glosas in 1553 and Musices liber primus in 1565.

Trattado de Glossas

The Trattado de Glosas is considered a masterpiece of literature for the viola da gamba. The work was published on 10 December 1553, in Rome

Rome

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 under the Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 title Trattado de glossas sobre clausulas y otros generos de punctos en la musica de violones nuevamente puestos en luz. Its Italian title is Glose sopra le cadenze et altre sorte de punti in la musica del violone.

Musices liber primus

Ortiz published a collection of polyphonic

Polyphony

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 religious music in 1565 in Venice

Venice

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. Musices liber primus hymnos, Magnificas, Salves, motecta, psalmos includes sixty-nine compositions for four to seven voices, based on plainchant works.

Sheetmusic

• El primo(-secondo) libro de Diego Ortiz (click "View options" JPG icon) - Biblioteca Nacional de España info