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The Tonadilla in Performance: Lyric Comedy in Enlightenment Spain
Elisabeth Le Guin
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Description for The Tonadilla in Performance: Lyric Comedy in Enlightenment Spain
Hardback. The tonadilla, a satiric musical skit popular on the public stages of Madrid during the late Enlightenment, has played a significant role in the history of music in Spain. This book examines the musical, theatrical, and social worlds that the tonadilla brought together, and their lasting influence the historiography of Spanish music. Num Pages: 408 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 8 tables, 24 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DSE; AVGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 698.
The tonadilla, a type of satiric musical skit popular on the public stages of Madrid during the late Enlightenment, has played a significant role in the history of music in Spain. This book, the first major study of the tonadilla in English, examines the musical, theatrical, and social worlds that the tonadilla brought together and traces the lasting influence this genre has had on the historiography of Spanish music. The tonadillas' careful constructions of musical populism provide a window onto the tensions among Enlightenment modernity, folkloric nationalism, and the politics of representation; their diverse, engaging, and cosmopolitan music is an ... Read more
The tonadilla, a type of satiric musical skit popular on the public stages of Madrid during the late Enlightenment, has played a significant role in the history of music in Spain. This book, the first major study of the tonadilla in English, examines the musical, theatrical, and social worlds that the tonadilla brought together and traces the lasting influence this genre has had on the historiography of Spanish music. The tonadillas' careful constructions of musical populism provide a window onto the tensions among Enlightenment modernity, folkloric nationalism, and the politics of representation; their diverse, engaging, and cosmopolitan music is an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
434
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520276307
SKU
V9780520276307
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About Elisabeth Le Guin
Elisabeth Le Guin is Professor of Musicology at UCLA and author of Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology (UC Press, 2006).
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