The Tonadilla in Performance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tonadilla in Performance write by Elisabeth Le Guin. This book was released on 2013-11-16. The Tonadilla in Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 invitation to reexamine tired old ideas of musical "Spanishness." Perhaps most radically of all, their satirical stance urges us to embrace the labile, paratextual nature of comic performance as central to the construction of history.
Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain
Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain write by Ana P Sánchez-Rojo. This book was released on 2024-07-09. Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By showing how music intersected with wider cultural affairs, such as philosophy and criticism, this book connects music and the modern in eighteenth-century Spain within the context of Enlightenment thought. Histories of modern Europe often present late eighteenth-century Spain as a backward place, haunted by the Inquisition and struggling to keep pace with modernity. While Spain under Charles III (1759-1788) pushed for economic and cultural modernization, many elites and the public at large resisted Enlightenment ideas. For conservatives, the modern would in time show its fragility, and Spain would withstand the collapse thanks to its firm grounding in the pillars of monarchy, religion, and traditional forms of knowledge. One source of this solid foundation was long-established musical knowledge based on the rules of counterpoint. In contrast, modernizers argued that Spain could be true to its essence, yet modern and cosmopolitan at the same time: they favoured cosmopolitan genres, such as Italian opera and artistic expression rather than counterpoint rules. At other times, ambivalence toward modernity produced creative uses of music, such as reinterpretations of pastoral and sentimental topics to accommodate reformist political trends. To both sides, music was crucial to the integrity of the Spanish nation. Whether and how Spain became modern would in many ways be defined and reinforced by the kinds of music that Spaniards composed and witnessed on stage. Through the study of press debates, opera and musical theatre productions, this book shows how music intersected with wider cultural affairs, such as philosophy and criticism, medicine and the human body, civilization, Bourbon policy and sentimentality. Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain for the first time connects music and the modern in eighteenth-century Spain within the context of Enlightenment thought.
Celebrating Flamenco's Tangled Roots
Celebrating Flamenco's Tangled Roots - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celebrating Flamenco's Tangled Roots write by K. Meira Goldberg. This book was released on 2022-01-18. Celebrating Flamenco's Tangled Roots available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays poses a series of questions revolving around nonsense, cacophony, queerness, race, and the dancing body. How can flamenco, as a diasporic complex of performance and communities of practice frictionally and critically bound to the complexities of Spanish history, illuminate theories of race and identity in performance? How can we posit, and argue for, genealogical relationships within and between genres across the vast expanses of the African—and Roma—diaspora? Neither are the essays presented here limited to flamenco, nor, consequently, are the responses to these questions reduced to this topic. What all the contributions here do share is the wish to come together, across disciplines and subject areas, within the academy and without, in the whirling, raucous, and messy spaces where the body is free—to celebrate its questioning, as well as the depths of the wisdom and knowledge it holds and sometimes reveals.
Feasting and Fasting in Opera
Feasting and Fasting in Opera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feasting and Fasting in Opera write by Pierpaolo Polzonetti. This book was released on 2021-11-11. Feasting and Fasting in Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Convivial beginnings. The symposium and the birth of opera ; The Renaissance banquet as multimedia art ; Orpheus at the cardinal's table ; Eating at the opera house -- "Tastes funny" : tragic and comic meals from Monteverdi to Mozart ; Comedy as embodiment in Monteverdi and Mozart ; The insatiable : tyrants and libertines ; Indulging in comic opera : gastronomy as identity -- The effects of feasting and fasting ; Coffee and chocolate from Bach to Puccini ; Verdi and the laws of gastromusicology ; The Callas diet.
Kickstarting Italian Opera in the Andes
Kickstarting Italian Opera in the Andes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kickstarting Italian Opera in the Andes write by José Manuel Izquierdo König. This book was released on 2023-01-31. Kickstarting Italian Opera in the Andes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the 19th century, Italian opera became truly transatlantic and its rapid expansion is one of the most exciting new areas of study in music and the performing arts. Beyond the Atlantic coasts, opera searched for new spaces to expand its reach. This Element discusses about the Italian opera in Andean countries like Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia during the 1840s and focuses on opera as a product that both challenged and was challenged in the Andes by other forms of performing arts, behaviours, technologies, material realities, and business models.
