Spanish Piano Music Folklore From Eighteenth to Early Twentieth - Crossing Paths

This is a pioneering work on the study of popular music in 19th-Century Spanish piano music, providing an exploration of specific folk-inspired works with an inquiry into the historical cross-pollination between popular and classical musical idioms. It will prove invaluable to pianists, scholars, performers and students in general.

List of contents

Foreword by Walter Aaron Clark
Chapter 1: Defining Spain: Its Music and Identity
Chapter 2: National Culture As Identity
Chapter 3: Domenico Scarlatti
Chapter 4: New Pathways
Chapter 5: Characteristics of the Spanish Piano Repertoire
Chapter 6: Songs
Chapter 7: Dances
Chapter 8: Wings of the Harp, Tail of the Piano, and Soul of the Guitar: The Versatility of Pitch on the Piano
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the author

Ana Benavides is currently a distinguished professor at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid and associated professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Walter A. Clark is distinguished professor of musicology at the University of California, Riverside. He has written biographies of Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Federico Moreno Torroba (with William C. Krause), and Joaquín Rodrigo (with Javier Suárez-Pajares), as well as a research and information guide on Rodrigo for Routledge.

Summary

This is a pioneering work on the study of popular music in 19th-Century Spanish piano music, providing an exploration of specific folk-inspired works with an inquiry into the historical cross-pollination between popular and classical musical idioms. It will prove invaluable to pianists, scholars, performers and students in general.

Product details

• Authors: Ana Benavides
• Assisted by: Walter Aaron Clark (Translation), Clark Walter Aaron (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 10.04.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781032669540
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3266954-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Routledge Research in Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Rock, Spain, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Pop Music, Folk & traditional music, Popular Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Folk, Folkloric styles, Traditional and folk music, Western "classical" music