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Enrique Granados
"Granados was among the leading pianists of his time, and his eloquence at the keyboard inspired critics to dub him the "poet of the piano." In Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano, Walter Aaron Clark offers the first substantive study in English of this virtuoso pianist, composer, and music pedagogue. While providing detailed analyses of his major works for voice, piano, and the stage, Clark argues that Granados's art represented a unifying presence on the cultural landscape of Spain during a period of imperial decline, political unrest, and economic transformation. Drawing on newly discovered documents, Clark explores the cultural spheres in which Granados moved, particularly of Castile and...
Sacred Realism
In this thoughtful and compelling book, leading Spanish literature scholar Noël Valis re-examines the role of Catholicism in the modern Spanish novel. While other studies of fiction and faith have focused largely on religious themes, Sacred Realism views the religious impulse as a crisis of modernity: a fundamental catalyst in the creative and moral development of Spanish narrative.
La música española en el siglo XIX
Una de las razones de la elección de este tema fue la firme convicción de que la música española del siglo XIX, excepto algunas zarzuelas (género tal vez mal comprendido, para nuestra desgracia), es una desconocida dentro y fuera de nuestras fronteras. Probablemente harán falta varios años de investigaciones exhaustivas y una seria tarea de difusión, para que la comunidad internacional suscriba la convicción que profesamos algunos musicólogos españoles: que es necesario superar el agravio comparativo entre la música que en España se escribía y consumía, y la que se hacía en el resto de Europa, puesto que la historia de la música europea no es sólo la de los países alemanes...
