Songs of Mortals, Dialogues of the Gods
Music and Theatre in Seventeenth-Century Spain
Series: Oxford Monographs on Music;
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 2 September 1993
- ISBN 9780198162735
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages586 pages
- Size 241x166x39 mm
- Weight 1123 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones, tables 0
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Short description:
This is the first comprehensive survey of 17th-century Spanish theatrical music to be written in any language. It explains the development of the various musical-theatrical genres of the period from a close analysis of the primary sources, and further examines the nature of the Spanish musical baroque and its relationship to European musical and theatrical developments.
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This is the first comprehensive survey of seventeenth-century Spanish theatrical music to be written in any language. While particular aspects of the field have been explored before, no previous single study has succeeded in defining the place and function of music in the Spanish theatre, and the nature of the extant repertory.
This book explains the development of the various musical-theatrical genres of the period (such as the semi-opera, opera, court plays), details the origins of the zarzuela, and looks at the anomalous production of three operas during the seventeenth century. It is based on a thorough study of the primary sources (musical sources, text of plays, archival documents), and the author combines history of music, history of theatre, politics and literary and musical anlysis to build a complete picture. In addition the book answers questions concerning the nature of the Spanish musical baroque and its relationship to European musical and theatrical developments. As such, it will be welcomed by musicologists, hispanists, students of Spanish culture, and historians of the arts and ideas.
an appendix of 65 musical examples, which, at some 120 pages, makes this one of the most lavishly illustrated music books I have seen ... the prose is not dauntingly technical, and few in the musicological community will be slowed down by it ... Louise Stein has done what few of us have been privileged to do: she has taken an entire musical century, in an important musical country, and rewritten its history from top to bottom.
