The Diferencias sobre La Folia survive in a manuscript of the Spanish composer Antonio Martn y Coll (c.1660-c.1740). They are a typical example of the development of instrumental variation over traditional basses, melodies and dances in the late 17th century.

Martn y Coll grew up in a monastery and eventually became a Franciscan friar. The last years of his life were spent in the monastery of San Francisco el Grande in Masdrid. Though primarily an organist, Martn y Coll also wrote a pair of treatises (1714 and 1734). However, his modern fame rests on four volumes of the Flores de Msica (Musical flowers), a collection of hundreds of pieces. The works in the fifth volume of the Flores de Msica, called Ramillete oloroso: suabes flores de msica are generally assumed to be Martn y Coll's own compositions.

Two of these works are variations (diferencias) on La Folia - a long Diferencias sobre las Folas and a shorter Folas. Further more, it is sure that the secular works - such as La Folia - would have been just appropriately played on gamba , with harpsichord (or organ, or lute) as sustaining instrument.

x Higini, Angls (1975): Scripta musicologica.x Hesperion XX: Savall, Jordi (viola da gamba) Smith, Hopkinson (guitar) 'El

Barroco Espaol, Tonos humanos & Instrumental music c.1640-1700' John H. Baron wrote as part of the introduction for the LP Folge 7 with three compositions of Martn y Coll.

1LA FOLIAfrom the fifth volume of the "Flores de Msica",

"Ramillete oloroso: suabes flores de msica" (1709)National Library, Madrid, M. 2.267, p. 1357-1360

arr. for Cello and Harpsichord (ossia Piano, ossia Organ)

Antonio Martn y Coll (c.1660-c.1740) arr. Serban Nichifor

(SABAM - IPI Name No. 46376567)17 August 2013

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