Luis de Briceño, active around 1610–30,spread the Spanish guitar’s popularity beyondits homeland. He made his name in Francewith a collection of pieces intended forstudents of guitar.

Le Poème Harmoniqueand Vincent Dumestre have recorded Briceño’sworks for the Alpha label and continue toexplore them within the context of earlyseventeenth-century Spanish music, offeringvivid instrumental arrangements of worksthat capture the vitality and verve of populardances, villancicos and romances.