Miguel López

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Miguel López (Villarroya de la Sierra, (Zaragoza), 1669 - ibid , 1723) was a musician from the Aragonese polyphonic and baroque school. A Benedictine monk, he studied theology in Salamanca. He was a chapel teacher and organist at the Monastery of Montserrat, in Madrid and Valladolid. An eminent musicologist, he wrote two treatises on music theory now lost, the titles of which were Exagoga ad musicam and Miscellaneous music. A third preserved autograph codex (manuscript 37 of the Biblioteca del Orfeón Catalán) contains his compositions. Christmas carols of his are also preserved in Madrid and Valencia and works for organ in Montserrat. His style represents the transition between the great school of Aragonese vocal polyphony and the beginning of the musical baroque. Apparently he was the first chapelmaster to use an orchestra in Montserrat that harmonized with the chapel of singers, but independently of it and that, in the dead times, he performed overtures, interludes and endings. He also composed for solo orchestra, highlighting his use of the brass section (bugles, shawms, sackbuds, serpentine), in conjunction with one or two organs and the string, composed of the recently introduced violins and a violin as basso continuo. In addition to an edition of his keyboard work published in Montserrat, his complete work was collected by D. Pujol, " Opera omnia de Miguel López", in Mestres de l'escolanía de Montserrat. Obres Musicals dels monjos del monestir de Montserrat. 1500-1

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