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Devotional Music in the Iberian World, 1450-1800 - The Villancico and Related Genres (Paperback)
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Devotional Music in the Iberian World, 1450-1800 - The Villancico and Related Genres (Paperback)
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From the fifteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth
century, devotional music played a fundamental role in the Iberian
world. Songs in the vernacular, usually referred to by the generic
name of 'villancico', but including forms as varied as madrigals,
ensaladas, tonos, cantatas or even oratorios, were regularly
performed at many religious feasts in major churches, royal and
private chapels, convents and in monasteries. These compositions
appear to have progressively fulfilled or supplemented the role
occupied by the Latin motet in other countries and, as they were
often composed anew for each celebration, the surviving sources
vastly outnumber those of Latin compositions; they can be counted
in tens of thousands. The close relationship with secular genres,
both musical, literary and performative, turned these compositions
into a major vehicle for dissemination of vernacular styles
throughout the Iberian world. This model of musical production was
also cultivated in Portugal and rapidly exported to the Spanish and
Portuguese colonies in America and Asia. In many cases, the
villancico repertory represents the oldest surviving source of
music produced in these regions, thus affording it a primary role
in the construction of national identities. The sixteen essays in
this volume explore the development of devotional music in the
Iberian world in this period, providing the first broad-based
survey of this important genre.
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