ABSTRACT
Juan de Anchieta was a singer, a churchman, and a composer of what we today call the Josquin era. He died in 1523, just two years after Josquin, and he may actually have been near Josquin’s age, born perhaps in the early to mid-1450s. As a composer, Anchieta, being from a slightly earlier generation than Penalosa, can be seen as a pioneer in the ever-expanding process of polyphonization in the sacred and secular musical repertory performed in court circles, contributing to almost all the major genres. Anchieta’s works thus give a unique insight into a documented moment of musical exchange, even if it was his younger colleague Penalosa who apparently picked up the ball and ran farther with northern musical influences. Anchieta’s sacred music does not instantly dazzle and delight the ear the way Penalosa and Escobar do, and his songs are not the irresistible zippy earworms that Encina’s are.
