Music in Spain during the Eighteenth Century

This 1998 volume contains essays on Spanish music in the eighteenth-century.

Malcolm Boyd (Edited by), Juan José Carreras (Edited by)

9780521481397, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 November 1998

278 pages, 8 b/w illus. 11 tables 14 music examples
24.4 x 17 x 1.7 cm, 0.65 kg

"...Cambridge University Press has produced a handsome, easy-to-read volume. with crisp music examples. This is a book that will be read and consulted for years to come, a winning addition to the growing literature on Spanish music." Paul R. Laird, Notes

Traditional musicology has tended to see the Spanish eighteenth century as a period of decline, but this 1998 volume shows it to be rich in interest and achievement. Covering stage genres, orchestral and instrumental music and vocal music (both sacred and secular), it brings together the results of research on such topics as opera, musical instruments, the secular cantata and the villancico and challenges received ideas about how Italian and Austrian music of the period influenced (or was opposed by) Spanish composers and theorists. Two final chapters outline the presence of Spanish musical sources in the New World.

Preface
1. Introduction Juan José Carreras
Part I. Music in the Theatre: 2. From Literes to Nebra: Spanish dramatic music between tradition and modernity Juan José Carreras
3. Opera and ballet in public theatres of the Iberian peninsula Xoán M. Carreira
4. Financial management at the Teatro de los Caños del Peral, 1786–99 Michael F. Robinson
Part II. Vocal Music, Sacred and Secular: 5. Liturgical music with orchestra, 1750–1800 José V. González Valle
6. Italianate sections in the villancicos of the royal chapel, 1700–40 Álvaro Torrente
7. An unknown repertory: the cantatas of Jayme de la Tê y Sagau (Lisbon, 1715–26) Gerhard Doderer
8. Spanish cantatas in the Mackworth collection at Cardiff Juan José Carreras
Part III. Symphonic Music: 9. Austrian symphonies in the Royal Palace, Madrid David Wyn Jones
10. Iberian symphonism, 1779–1809: some observations Teresa Cascudo
11. The symphony in Catalonia, c. 1760–1808 Josep M. Vilar i Torrens
Part IV. Instrumental Music: 12. Musical instruments: tradition and innovation Cristina Bordas
13. 'El diablo vestido de fraile': some unpublished correspondence of Padre Soler George Truett Hollis
14. The Villahermosa manuscript: an important source of late eighteenth-century Spanish keyboard music Benjamin Lipkowitz
15. Some unpublished works of José Elías Agueda Pedrero-Encabo
16. The rise of the modern guitar in Spain Javier Suárez-Pajares
Part V. Spanish Music in the New World: 17. Cathedral music in Spanish America Alfred E. Lemmon
18. Eighteenth-century Spanish music in Mexico Jaime González-Quiñones
Index.

Subject Areas: Western "classical" music [AVGC]