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Whose Spain?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Whose Spain?

In this book, Llano analyzes the socio-political discourses underpinning critical and musicological descriptions of 'Spanish music' at the beginning of the nineteenth century and the discourse's connection with French politics and culture of the era. Llano studies operas and other musical works for the stage as privileged sites for the production of Spanish musical identities, and ultimately demonstrates that definitions of 'French' and 'Spanish' music during this period were to some extent interdependent.

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera

The perfect accompaniment to courses on eighteenth-century opera for both students and teachers, this Companion is a definitive reference resource.

A Companion to Music at the Habsburg Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 653

A Companion to Music at the Habsburg Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-09-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

A Companion to Music at the Habsburgs Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, edited by Andrew H. Weaver, is the first in-depth survey of Habsburg musical patronage over a broad timeframe. Bringing together existing research and drawing upon primary sources, the authors, all established experts, provide overviews of the musical institutions, the functions of music, the styles and genres cultivated, and the historical, political, and cultural contexts for music at the Habsburg courts. The wide geographical scope includes the imperial courts in Vienna and Prague, the royal court in Madrid, the archducal courts in Graz and Innsbruck, and others. This broad view of Habsburg musical activities affirms the dynasty’s unique position in the cultural life of early modern Europe. Contributors are Lawrence Bennett, Charles E. Brewer, Drew Edward Davies, Paula Sutter Fichtner, Alexander J. Fisher, Christine Getz, Beth L. Glixon, Jeffrey Kurtzman, Virginia Christy Lamothe, Honey Meconi, Sara Pecknold, Jonas Pfohl, Pablo L. Rodríguez, Steven Saunders, Herbert Seifert, Louise K. Stein, and Andrew H. Weaver.

Devotional Music in the Iberian World, 1450-1800
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 510

Devotional Music in the Iberian World, 1450-1800

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

From the fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century, devotional music played a fundamental role in the Iberian world. Songs in the vernacular, usually referred to by the generic name of 'villancico', but including forms as varied as madrigals, ensaladas, tonos, cantatas or even oratorios, were regularly performed at many religious feasts in major churches, royal and private chapels, convents and in monasteries. These compositions appear to have progressively fulfilled or supplemented the role occupied by the Latin motet in other countries and, as they were often composed anew for each celebration, the surviving sources vastly outnumber those of Latin compositions; they can ...

Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V

  • Categories: Art

'Music and Ceremony' reconstructs musical life at the court of Charles V, examining the compositions which emanated from the court, the ordinances which prescribed ritual and ceremony, and the Emperor's prestigious chapel which reflected his power and influence.

Companion to Music in the Age of the Catholic Monarchs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 744

Companion to Music in the Age of the Catholic Monarchs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-10-05
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Companion to Music in the Age of the Catholic Monarchs, edited by Tess Knighton, offers a major new study that deepens and enriches our understanding of the forms and functions of music that flourished in late medieval Spanish society. The fifteen essays, written by leading authorities in the field, present a synthesis based on recently discovered material that throws new light on different aspects of musical life during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabel (1474-1516): sacred and secular music-making in royal and aristocratic circles; the cathedral music environment; liturgy and power; musical connections with Rome, Portugal and the New World; theoretical and unwritten musical practices; women as patrons and performers; and the legacy of Jewish musical tradition. Contributors are Mercedes Castillo Ferreira, Giuseppe Fiorentino, Roberta Freund Schwartz, Eleazar Gutwirth, Tess Knighton, Kenneth Kreitner, Javier Marín López, Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita, Bernadette Nelson, Pilar Ramos López, Emilio Ros-Fábregas, Juan Ruiz Jiménez, Richard Sherr, Ronald Surtz, and Jane Whetnall.

Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04-18
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

How engineers and agricultural scientists became key actors inFranco's regime and Spain's forced modernization.

Playing in the Cathedral
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Playing in the Cathedral

This work explores how cathedral musicians in eighteenth-century Mexico City relied on music and on their institutional affiliation to define their social place. In the tensions that brewed within New Spain's racial casta (or caste) system, people of mixed race increasingly competed for Spanish benefits and prerogatives.

The Marqués, the Divas, and the Castrati
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 793

The Marqués, the Divas, and the Castrati

In this book, author Louise K. Stein analyzes early modern opera as appreciated and produced by Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán (1629-87), Marqués de Heliche and del Carpio and a distinguished patron of the arts in Madrid, Rome, and Naples. It also reveals his lasting legacy in the Americas during a crucial period for the growth and development of opera and the history of singing.

The Eighteenth-Century Theatre in Spain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

The Eighteenth-Century Theatre in Spain

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-18
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Previously published as a special issue of The Bulletin of Spanish Studies, The Eighteenth-Century Theatre in Spain is the second in a series of research bibliographies on the Theatre in Spain. Representing ten years of searches and compilation by its specialist authors, this volume draws together data on more than 1,500 books, articles and documents concerned with Spanish eighteenth-century theatre. Studies of plays and playwrights are included as well as material dealing with theatres, actors and stagecraft. Wherever possible, items listed have been personally examined, and their library location in Britain, Spain or USA is provided. Scholars with interests in drama will find in this single-volume work of reference a wealth of reliable information concerning this specialist field.