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Covers every aspect of the harpsichord and its music, including composers, genres, national styles, tuning, and the art of harpsichord building.
In villages and towns across Spain and its former New World colonies, local performers stage mock battles between Spanish Christians and Moors or Aztecs that range from brief sword dances to massive street theatre lasting several days. The festival tradition officially celebrates the triumph of Spanish Catholicism over its enemies, yet this does not explain its persistence for more than five hundred years nor its widespread diffusion. In this insightful book, Max Harris seeks to understand Mexicans' "puzzling and enduring passion" for festivals of moros y cristianos. He begins by tracing the performances' roots in medieval Spain and showing how they came to be superimposed on the mock battles that had been a part of pre-contact Aztec calendar rituals. Then using James Scott's distinction between "public" and "hidden transcripts," he reveals how, in the hands of folk and indigenous performers, these spectacles of conquest became prophecies of the eventual reconquest of Mexico by the defeated Aztec peoples. Even today, as lively descriptions of current festivals make plain, they remain a remarkably sophisticated vehicle for the communal expression of dissent.
Focusing on the royal chapel established by Philip II in Madrid, the essays in this richly illustrated volume offer a series of different perspectives on the development of the main court chapels of Europe. English version edited by Tess Knighton The royal chapel, in Europe as a whole and in Spain in particular, was a cultural institution where court ceremonial, politics, music and the arts were brought together in terms of space and function. The ramifications for the patronage and cultivation of the arts and the dynamic between music and the arts and the concept of kingship form the focus of the text. The phenomenon of groupings of singers, chaplainsand musicians at the service of the diff...
José Teixidor es considerado como el primer historiador de la música española. La presente edición crítica se basa en la obra original en dos volúmenes del autor: un ejemplar conservado en la Biblioteca Pública Episcopal del Seminario de Barcelona (textos mecanografiados; Ms. 96), y un segundo manuscrito (M 1621), reproducido en esta edición de forma facsimilar, que contiene todos los ejemplos musicales a los que remite el primer volumen, procedente de la Biblioteca Nacional de Catalunya. La simbiosis de fuentes originalmente conservadas de forma dispersa que se concreta en esta edición, facilita al interesado la conjunción de la obra final, teórico-práctica, concebida por Teixidor.
Se publican en el presente volumen los seis cuartetos de cuerda que se conservan de José Teixidor y Barceló (1751-¿1811?). Teixidor fue organista de la Real Capilla, además de compositor e importante teórico musical. Sabemos que el cuarteto 2º se publicó en 1801, por lo que los cuartetos se debieron componer a finales del siglo XVIII.
Se publican en el presente volumen las sonatas para clave o fortepiano conocidas de José Teixidor y Barceló (ca. 1751-ca. 1811), organista de la Real Capilla, además de compositor e importante teórico musical. Cinco de ellas forman parte de un conjunto titulado «Sonatas de clave» y quizá se compusieron en 1775 para el infante don Gabriel de Borbón. Otra sonata, escrita en tres movimientos, se anunció en la prensa el año 1794 para su venta.
El maestro Yanguas (1682-1753) fue coetáneo de Johann Sebastian Bach (16851750) y Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757); Aragüés (1712 ca.?-1793) lo fue de Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) y Tommaso Traetta (1727-1779) y Bernardo del Manzano, que muere en 1805, de Carl Stamitz (1745-1801) y Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805). En España trabajan en este periodo Scarlatti, Farinelli, Corselli, Brunetti o Boccherini, pero también Francisco Valls, Pedro Rabassa, José de Nebra, Antonio Rodríguez de Hita, Francisco Javier García Fajer, Francisco Manalt, Joseph Teixidor o Melchor López. Sólo este cúmulo de nombres configura ya un paisaje poliédrico y multicolor, bajo cuya diversidad puede perci...
When relating feminism with music, it approaches the main contributions of the feminist to the music. It picks up the paper of the women like protectors, and the popular music's power to generate identities and to perpetuate or to criticize gender ideas.