Francesc Valls

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Francesc Valls (Spanish: Francisco Valls) (Barcelona 1665/1671 - 2 February 1747) was a Catalan composer, theorist and maestro de capilla. Among his most known works are the mass Missa Scala Aretina and tract Mapa Armónico Práctico. Life In 1696 Francisco Valls was headhunted from the Church of Santa María del Mar, Barcelona, to the post of Maestro de capilla at Barcelona Cathedral. He wrote 10 masses, 17 psalm settings, 30 motets, several other sacred items and 141 secular compositions. Many of these are manuscripts lodged in the Biblioteca de Catalunya in Barcelona. Composition of the Missa Scala Aretina The Missa Scala Aretina, so called because it uses a scale based cantus firmus (prominently audible in the Kyrie), caused a major musical controversy between 1715 and 1720, initiated by a pamphlet against Valls by the organist and theatre composer Joaquín Martínez de la Roca. Pro and anti groups were roughly equal, the famous composer Alessandro Scarlatti had given an opinion, mildly opposed to Valls' ideas.[1] In the Qui tollis at bar 120 (López-Calo edition) the second soprano enters on an unprepared 9th chord causing a gratuitous semitonal dissonance with a bflat, a, f, d and low g sounding simultaneously on the words miserere nobis. The unpreparedness of the entry rather than the discord is the problem. It is doubtful whether such a chord would have raised highbrows in England where the dissonant music of Henry Purcell or William Lawes had been admired at court and

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In Excelsis Deo

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Francesc Valls: Misa Scala Aretina

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Per Vostra Merce

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Música de la Guerra de Successió Espanyola

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Música De La Guerra De Sucessió Espanyola

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Cantica Sacra 1000 Years Of Sacred Music From Catalonia

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con afecto

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Zarzuela Al Santísimo, o El Esplendor del Barroco Hispánico del S.XVIII

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Missa Scala Aretina

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In Excelsis Deo (Disc 1)

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Zarzuela al Santísimo

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Barroco Español - Vol. 1 (Al Ayre Español; Eduardo López Banzo)

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