El himno Pange Lingua de Juan de Urrede, un emblema del poder de las élites hispánicas en el antiguo régimen (siglos XVI-XVIII)

Résumé

The Tarazona’s versionof the hymn Pange lingua attributed to the Flemish composer Johannes Wreede (1451-c.1482)—known in Spain and the Hispanic World as Juan de Urrede or Urreda—is among the most important Spanish sacred works of all history. Why was the liturgical use of thishymn so extensively prolonged? Who promoted its survival? Who could its performance benefit or harm? Why was it welcome, as it seems, by both popular social groups as well as by groups of more elevated status? What musical and extra-musical elements explain the composition’s surprising survival in the historical canon of Spanish and Hispano-American music? It is hoped that this approach proposed here may contribute to broaden and deepen our understanding of the representation of the power of the Hispanic elites in the Ancien Régime, and to encourage further work in the field of musicology, leading to fresh interpretations of this popular Eucharistic hymnin Early Modern Spain