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The tonadilla in performance : lyric comedy in enlightenment Spain

By Elisabeth , Le Guin

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2013
ISBN
0520276302, 978-0-520-27630-7, 978-0-520-95690-2, 0520956907, 9781299981690, 1299981690
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6392119 bytes)
Pages
408\406
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Tonadillas -- History and criticism. MUSIC -- Inst

Description

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.

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