Alonso de Mondéjar
Alonso de Mondéjar
Genres: spanish, 16th century
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About Alonso de Mondéjar
Alonso de Mondéjar (16th century), was a Spanish Renaissance composer. Mondéjar began, as a singer, to form part of the royal Castilian Chapel on August 17, 1502, with a salary of 20,000 maravedís (paid from the first day of January of that year). He worked in the service of said chapel until the death of Queen Isabella I of Castile in 1504. As a singer, he was part of the funeral procession that transferred the remains of the late queen to the monastery of San Francisco de la Alhambra (Granada), where he was buried on December 18 of that year according to her own wishes. From then on he worked at the service of the Aragonese Royal Chapel for a salary of 25,000 maravedís, until 1516 after the death of Fernando el Católico. Apart from these data about his service in the chapels of the Catholic Monarchs , any other data about his life and later professional dedication is unknown. Mondéjar composed Magnificat for three voices (E-Bbc 454), motets and songs. Motets: Ave sanctissimum et gloriosum corpus (E-Mp 1335; E-Bbc 454), of which we find a different version in the Portuguese tradition, attributing its authorship to Gabriel Díaz Besson (E-TZ 2/3). It is probable that Díaz and Mondéjar worked together in the Royal Chapel of Aragon between 1504 and 1506. Another peculiarity of this motet lies in the fact that, in the Cancionero de Barcelona (E-Bbc 454), the bass line contains a text different (“Ave verum corpus in ara crucis”). Ave rex noster (E-SE 203): shares stylistic characteristics with the previous one. Alternation between imitation of voices and homophonic sections used to highlight the meaning of certain words. The similar characteristics between one and the other motet, may well make us think that both are compositions by Alonso de Mondéjar, but they are not sufficiently differentiating from the rest of the polyphonic court compositions of the time, to be able to affirm this with certainty. There are twelve songs ascribed to Mondéjar, and they are included in the Palacio musical songbook (E-Mp 1335). With a homogeneous style, formally they are Christmas carols with choruses of three verses, composed in three voices, in binary time, and whose theme is about “courtly love”. The only exceptions are the carol entitled Oyan todos mi tormento (4 voices), and Do not dismay, coraçon (chorus of two verses). These songs were included in said songbook in the year 1515 (seventh incorporation), according to Josep Romeu Figueras. Camino de Santiago has a romance structure with 4 melodic phrases that are repeated throughout the text. A fragment of a composition is preserved, in ternary rhythm (the only known case in Mondéjar's production), which could belong to the refrain of a song, although it is also possible that it belongs to a motet.
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