Music in Spain during the eighteenth century

Music in Spain during the eighteenth century / edited by Malcolm Boyd and Juan José Carreras.

This volume of essays on Spanish music in the eighteenth century covers stage genres, orchestral and instrumental music and vocal music (both sacred and secular). Traditional musicology has tended to see the Spanish eighteenth century as a period of decline, but this volume shows it to be rich in in...

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Other Authors: Boyd, Malcolm, Carreras López, Juan José, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Music > Spain > 18th century > History and criticism.
Music
Spain.
music
musicological
musical studies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • From Literes to Nebra: Spanish dramatic music between tradition and modernity / Juan José Carreras
  • Opera and ballet in public theatres of the Iberian peninsula / Xoán M. Carreira
  • Financial management at the Teatro de los Caños del Peral, 1786-99 / Michael F. Robinson
  • Liturgical music with orchestra, 1750-1800 / José V. González Valle
  • Italianate sections in the villancicos of the royal chapel, 1700-40 / Álvaro Torrente
  • Unknown repertory: the cantatas of Jayme de la Têy Sagau (Lisbon, 1715-26) / Gerhard Doderer
  • Spanish cantatas in the Mackworth collection at Cardiff / Juan José Carreras
  • Austrian symphonies in the Royal Palace, Madrid / David Wyn Jones
  • Iberian symphonism, 1779-1809: some observations / Teresa Cascudo
  • Symphony in Catalonia, c.1760-1808 / Josep M. Vilar i Torrens
  • Musical instruments: tradition and innovation / Cristina Bordas
  • 'El diablo vestido de fraile': some unpublished correspondence of Padre Soler / George Truett Hollis
  • Villahermosa manuscript: an important source of late eighteenth-century Spanish keyboard music / Benjamin Lipkowitz
  • Some unpublished works of José Elías / Agueda Pedrero-Encabo
  • Rise of the modern guitar in Spain / Javier Suárez-Pajares
  • Cathedral music in Spanish America / Alfred E. Lemmon
  • Eighteenth-century Spanish music in Mexico / Jaime González-Quiñones.

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