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This is the first comprehensive history of seventeenth-ccntury
Spanish theatrical music to be written in any language, and the
first book-length study devoted to the music of the Spanish baroque
in English. While particular aspects of the field have been
explored before, no previous single study has succeeded in defining
the place and function of music in the Spanish theatre of the
Golden Age, and the nature of the extant repertory. This book
explains the several musical-theatrical genres that flourished in
seventeenth-century Spain, answers essential questions about their
nature and development as court and public entertainments, and
looks at the anomalous production of three operas in a period
dominated by genres such as the semi-opera and the zarzuela. Based
on a thorough study of the extant music, the plays, numerous
historical documents, and descriptions from the period, the author
builds a complete picture through a historical and contextual
approach illustrated by musical and literary analysis. This book
considerably advances our understanding of the culture of the
baroque period in Spain, by making important statements about the
nature of the Spanish musical baroque and its relation to European
musical and theatrical developments. As such, it will be welcomed
by musicologists, hispanists, students of Spanish culture, and
historians of the arts and ideas.
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