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43. This has long been one of my favorites

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 09:13 PM

Jul 2013

Guardame Las Vacas (Watch Over My Cattle) written by the Spanish composer Luis de Narvaez some time in the mid 1500s. I think it's one of the most beautiful pieces ever written. I play it on the classical guitar but it was written for the Vihuela, a forerunner to the guitar from the Renaissance.

And from approximately the same period, there's Une Jeune Fillette, a gorgeous and sad melody about a little girl forced to become a nun against her will.

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Oooh! I'll play it again! vanlassie Feb 2014 #75

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