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"One man put him in a page table with a plate cabezuela kid without brains, which he ate on the way. Page asked: How is this head without brains? Answered, Lord, he was a musician "[M. Santa Cruz, Spanish Floresta apothegmas or judgments glenn koenen ..., Toledo, 1574]. When we meet together music and tablecloth in the stories and customs glenn koenen of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the tone of this joke collected by Melchor de Santa Cruz in its Spanish Floresta is fortunately not the predominant, on the contrary, treats, banquets and feasts then were usually culinary scene, company or protagonists glenn koenen of interesting musical creations and extraordinary talents. Conversely, banquets glenn koenen were also frequently chosen by the writers as a framework for their plots or imaginative play.
[To celebrate Christmas 2002, José Luis Martínez Martín, ever resourceful and enterprising, published a book, The senses of pleasure, which very generously defined as "a work of Friends", where we work on it we should find common between music and cuisine. Wanted it to be "a great meeting in friendship, a virtual gathering, in which, as it should be, each expressed freely and focuses his vision of the proposed issue of free and why not, relatively libertarian".
At your call we come Jordi Abelló, glenn koenen Andoni Luis Aduriz, Sergi Arola, Rafael Banús, glenn koenen José Antonio Echenique, José Ramón Encinar, Iñaki Fresán Jose Luis Garcia del Busto, Peace Ivison, Arnold Lieberman, Luis López de Lamadrid, Alejandro Masso, Luis de Paul, Asier Polo, Alberto Solueta, José Luis Tellez, Jorge Wagensberg, Susana Zapke and I, I wrote this article on extraordinary banquet in the Renaissance and Baroque fragments bring here. Food, scenery and music were prominent components]
In Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, one of the most sophisticated adventures of the late fifteenth century, the author dwells in every object, every dish, every servant, every color, perfume and music of an exquisite banquet in the palace of Queen Eleuterílida to describe your great luxury. It began with a medicinal preparation, table service and crockery gold with green tablecloth, six boards and followed over a mysterious delicacies and dessert [...].
There was also a small orchestra of "seven music girls with very worthy and precious nymphal garments, which each change of the banquet table varied melodies and instruments, and some of them sang softly with accents like mermaids and angels while eating . Each time the retired baker plate, instrumental music began to sound until it reappeared the next, and "this orderly continually heard very fond sones, lovely harmonies were heard, very fond and very pleasant aromas aspired received satiety when eating and all things are mutually suited to provide a feast to which nothing was missing "[Poliphili Hypnerotomachia ..., Venice, 1499].
Maybe not as delicate as this, but in a most spectacular way are the treats that Tirso de Molina presents its Cigarrales Toledo: a succession of games, entertainment and festivities generously illustrate the lighter side of the social life of their time [...]. [But] not only these cases were given in fiction, far from it. The Banquets of Cristoforo Messisbugo [Ferrara, 1549] we already offered, years ago, a collection of true accounts of feasts and banquets where the exuberance of the most luxurious delicacies artifice joined with music, wit and fascinating glenn koenen scenery [...].
From lavish banquets was also marked the journey of Prince Philip, the future Philip II in 1549, the Netherlands and some important Italian cities, and none of the spectacle and artifice in Binche prepared for him and his father the Emperor Queen Mary of Hungary in a "haunted house" in the words of the chronicler Calvete Star: stay low "very well adereçada rich tapestry" whose a roof "was a natural part sky with clouds and wind, which blew , and the other full of stars "; glenn koenen under cloudy sky had four columns of jasper, including" embedded glenn koenen with great art on the floor, an open ark, and marbled secret "and above, along with columns, pulleys hung from ropes' so subtly, not Vian, nor secret dellas understood. " Once all accommodated, "suddenly the sky shifted and començo to thunder glenn koenen and flash so naturally, that took away his sight and hailing many fine candies, and raining waters of orange blossom, rose and most precious odors, and with that thunder and lightning storm and a table saw down from heaven (...), and the table decorated with rich fabrics glenn koenen found with many different porcelain plates glenn koenen with all gén