The Silk Road is one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilizations. Along this great Silk Road travelled not only the traffic of trade, but also the cultures of nations, spiritual values and religious ideas. This is a musical journey through the territories of the Silk Road, across borders. It is a unique experience to share this common heritage, by recovering the past in order for it to be borne to the present, using music as a universal language. 

A CHRONICLE OF A MUSICAL JOURNEY AROUND THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN 

Carles Magraner proposes a musical journey around the Medieval Mediterranean to the hand of one of the most important theologists and philosophers of the History: Raymundus Lullus. The musical references of his writings are brief but fundamental. In the "Revelatio Secretorum Artis" the 18th century german lullist Ivo Salzinger wrote his work "De Secreto Musicae" where, after reiterate the musical authority of Boethius and Pythagoras, deals with the division of the monochord, the musical consonances and the solmisation system of Guido d’Arezzo, and following Lullus says that music is "ars inventa ad ordinandum multas voces concordantes in uno canto". However, in the “Tree of Knowledge’’, where Lullus imagines fourteen trees of knowledge, the most important is the “humanal tree’’, in which the music takes place, and we must  “consider the voices to be high and low and medium, and long and short, thin and depth, proportional to the vocal and consonant accents, to adorn the voices and the melody of the instruments, that are pleasing to be heard by the hearts of the men’’. Other musical references in Lullus are found also in his “Doctrina Pueril’’, where he wrote: “The music is the art by which we have the straight doctrine to sing and play the instruments, raising and lowering the voices in a form to concur the different voices and sounds’’.

Image: ©Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe. Cod. St.Peter perg 92 fol.3v

Carles Magraner presents Capella de Ministrers new concert program dedicated to Spanish historical music from 16th to 17thcenturies.   Capella de Ministrers presents a concert program for…

In a context of division and disunity of the Catholic Church (on pope in Rome, one in Avignon), St. Vicente Ferrer settled with great fame as a preacher of God's Judgment. Dubbed by locals as'' The Angel of the Apocalypse'', his ominous preaching through European territory was addressed to avoid bad habits, continually reminding that the Final Judgment awaits to all of us, touching deeply the souls of most believers, but also the most skeptical.

Carles Magraner proposes a musical journey around the Medieval Mediterranean to the hand of one of the most important theologists and philosophers of the History: Raymundus Lullus. The musical references of his writings are brief but fundamental. In the "Revelatio Secretorum Artis" the 18th century german lullist Ivo Salzinger wrote his work "De Secreto Musicae" where, after reiterate the musical authority of Boethius and Pythagoras, deals with the division of the monochord, the musical consonances and the solmisation system of Guido d’Arezzo, and following Lullus says that music is "ars inventa ad ordinandum multas voces concordantes in uno canto".