Lorente, Andrés
(1624–1703)
ANDRÉS LORENTELORENTE, ANDRÉSANDRÉS LORENTE [bapt. 1624-† 1703] Spanish theory mirrored a national musical life of unchanging liturgical orthodoxy bent on preserving sixteenth-century practice intact. Treatises, such as Andrés Lorente's El porqué de la música (1672), were not intended as transmitters of the latest foreign innovations; instead, they reinforced and solidified existing Spanish practices. Lorente, like others before him, found it expedient to borrow extensive passages from earlier…