Gracia Baptista Explained

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Gracia Baptista
Religion:	Catholic
Nationality:	Spanish

Gracia Baptista (fl. 1557?) was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun and composer who lived in Ávila.^[1] Her setting of Conditor alme, published in 1557 in the Libro de cifra nueva para tecla, Arpa y Vihuela of Luis Venegas de Henestrosa,^[2] is the earliest keyboard work by an Iberian woman composer,^[3] the first published composition by a woman composer,^[4] and possibly the only surviving published keyboard work by an Iberian woman dating to before the eighteenth century.^[5] The piece is scored for voice and either organ or harpsichord.^[1] It has been recorded.^{[6] [7]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Meg Lota Brown. Kari Boyd McBride. Women's Roles in the Renaissance. 2005. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-32210-5. 270–.
2. Book: Barbara Garvey Jackson. Say Can You Deny Me: A Guide to Surviving Music by Women from the 16th Through the 18th Centuries. 1994. University of Arkansas Press. 978-1-55728-303-0. 44–.
3. Book: Susan Forscher Weiss. Russell E. Murray, Jr.. Cynthia J. Cyrus. Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. 16 July 2010. Indiana University Press. 978-0-253-00455-0. 275–.
4. Gracia Baptista, año 1557. La primera compositora europea con obra publicada. Josemi Lorenzo. Audio Clásica . January 2009 . 1 March 2016.
5. Book: Alexander Silbiger. Keyboard Music Before 1700. 2 August 2004. Routledge. 978-1-135-92423-2. 387–.
6. Book: Pan Pipes: Sigma Alpha Iota Quarterly. 1992. Wayside Press.
7. Web site: Gracia BAPTISTA. 1 March 2016.