Dates: fl.1553-1578
Birthplace: Navalcarnero, 19 miles from Madrid, possibly 1525.
Publication: Libro de música para vihuela intitulado Orphenica Lyra. Seville: Martín de Montesdoca, 1554
Contents: Six books or chapters: 51 fantasias, 8 Tientos, songs and intabulations - mostly for 6c vihuela, plus nine pieces (including six fantasias) for 5c vihuela, and nine pieces for 4c guitar.
Comments:
Miguel de Fuenllana's Orphenica lyra was published in Seville in 1554, while he was in the service of the Marquesa de Tarifa. There followed periods of service with the third wife of Philip II, Isabel de Valois (1560-69), and Don Sebastian of Portugal in Lisbon from 1574. His daughter, Dona Catalina de Fuenllana claimed that her father gave more than 46 years of service to both Philip II and Philip III. Apparently blind since soon after birth.
Secular Songs in Catalan, Spanish, Italian and French, including romances, villanescas, estrambotes, sonetos and villancicos.
Discusses in detail aspects of technique and interpretation.