«El armónico son que el aire lleva»: el ars canendi de Vicente Espinel

Abstract

. This article offers a study dedicated to the relevance of the practice of singing in Diversas rimas (1591) by the poet and musician Vicente Espinel (1550-1624). To do this, compositions of this book are analyzed in intertextual dialogue with Vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón (1618), a picaresque narrative work in which Espinel provides musical comments, often in a didactic key, that help to understand his aesthetic thinking regarding the intersection of codes between literary and musical discourse. Likewise, parallels are detected in his aesthetic production