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Paredes, Cristóbal de

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Person Born Died Gender Person ID
Cristóbal de Paredes M P0166

Instrument(s) Professional group Social status Social sphere Why is the person listed?
vihuela de arco Musician Professional Church Instrumentalist (bowed)

Years active Place active Century Region
1561-73 Toledo 16cent/2/mid Castilla
Biographical information

Cristóbal de Paredes is named in two documentos found by Barbieri in the Archivo Capitular of Toledo, the only evidence of his activity as a player of the vihuela de arco. On 13.VI.1561 he was paid 612 mrs by the cathedral to perform with his companions in the processions on the day of Corpus Christ and its Octave, dressed as angels with the annotation “that this is the same sum as in previous years” [que son los mismos mrs que se han dado en otros años]. Eleven years later, on 28.VIII.1573 he was paid 1500 mrs to play with his companions in the procession on the same day Corpus Christi and its Octave [el día y en la octava del Santísmo Sacramento] (Leg. 2).

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Source documents
Date Document
1573.8.28 Cristóbal de Paredes, payment for playing the vihuela de arco


Bibliography
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casares1986 Barbieri, Francisco Asenjo. Biografias y documentos sobre música y músicos españoles. Legado Barbieri, vol 1. Ed. Emilio Casares. Madrid: Fundación Banco Exterior, 1986. 367
corona1999 Corona-Alcalde, Antonio. “The Players and Performance Practice of the Vihuela and its related Instruments, the Lute and the Guitar, from c. 1450 to c.1650. as revealed by a Study of Literary, Musical, Theoretical, and Archival Sources”. Diss. King's College, University of London, 1999. 28
paredesDMEH Griffiths, John. “Paredes, Cristobal de”. Diccionario de la música española e hispanoamericana. Ed. Emilio Casares Rodicio. Madrid: Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, 1999-2002.
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