The Cambridge history of music in Spain / edited by Walter Aaron Clark, Ana Llorens, and Álvaro Torrente.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, Walter Aaron, editor.

Llorens, Ana, editor.

Torrente, Alvaro, editor.

Series:

Cambridge history of music.

The Cambridge History of Music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Spain--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 602 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Spain's musical history has often resided on - or been consigned to - the margins of historical narratives about mainstream European culture. As a result, Spanish music is universally popular but seldom well understood outside Iberia. This volume offers, for the first time in English, a comprehensive survey of music in Spain from the Middle Ages to the modern era, including both classical and popular traditions. With chapters from a group of leading music scholars, the book reevaluates the history of music in Spain, from devotional works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance to masterpieces of the postwar avant-garde. It surveys a deep legacy of classical music as well as a rich heritage of folklore comprising songs and dances from Spain's many regions, especially but not exclusively Andalusian flamenco. Folklore in turn informed the nationalist repertoire with which music lovers are most familiar, including pieces by Albéniz, Granados, Falla, Rodrigo, and many others.

Contents:

Introduction / Walter Aaron Clark, Ana Llorens, and Álvaro Torrente

Music in the Iberian Peninsula before 1450 / Carmen Julia Gutiérrez and Manuel Pedro Ferreira

The Age of Discovery / Tess Knighton and Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita

Silver Music in a Golden Age / Álvaro Torrente

New Horizons in the Age of Enlightenment / Miguel Ángel Marín and José Máximo Leza

The Invention of Spanish Music / Joan José Carreras

Zarzuela and Beyond / Enrique Mejías García and Víctor Sánchez Sánchez

In Search of a Musical Identity / Walter Aaron Clark

The Silver Age and the Generación del 27 / Elena Torres Clemente

Musical Traditions in Spain : Developments, Practices, and Discourses / Susana Moreno-Fernández

Flamenco : History, Identity, and Performance Practice / Samuel Llano and Matthew Machin-Autenrieth

Popular Music / Celsa Alonso González and Julio Arce

Film Music in the Long-Twentieth Century / Celsa Alonso González and Julio Arce

From the Francoist Dictatorship to the Present / Germán Gan-Quesada and Gemma Pérez-Zalduondo.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Jun 2026).

ISBN:

1-108-66333-8

9781108627160

9781316997659