Trabajo; oficios; historia del trabajo; pintura; artes mecánicas; anónimo; Museo del Prado; cantor; música; cantar; siglo XVII - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 15:24:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Trabajo; oficios; historia del trabajo; pintura; artes mecánicas; anónimo; Museo del Prado; cantor; música; cantar; siglo XVII - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Singer https://historylab.es/singer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=singer Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:38 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/cantor/ Anonymous portrait of a young singer singing along with his sheet music

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]]> The anonymous scene from the early 17th century shows a young singer, one of the most unknown trades of modernity. Historiography often refers to crafts as manual trades (tailors, painters, carpenters…), forgetting or denigrating musical knowledge despite the importance given to their learning by authors such as Plato and Aristotle. The representation depicts a young man singing a melody in an intimate space, which suggests that he is rehearsing for a recital in front of an audience, most likely in a church or parish church, which were musical centres par excellence during the modern period.

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