Biography
Correa ranks among the leading Spanish composers and theorists of his era, with all of his surviving compositions preserved in the "Facultad organica". That anthology holds 69 organ pieces by him, 62 of which adopt the form of the Spanish fantasia known as the tiento. Correa generally situated the cantus firmus in the soprano line and left it almost entirely plain. Ornamental elaboration in these works produces a richly figured melodic surface instead of any dense contrapuntal argument. The same pieces nevertheless mark him as one of the most significant figures in Spanish Baroque organ music. Each tiento opens in a plain style before accumulating rhythmic densities that become extremely demanding to execute. Dissonances arose through the simultaneous presentation of a note together with its immediate accidental.