Manuel de Falla and modernism in Spain, 1898-1936 / Carol A. Hess.
| Author/creator | Hess, Carol A. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001. |
| Description | xiii, 347 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction. Falla and constructions of Spanish music ; The issues -- Spanish music between 1898 and the Great war. Falla in Madrid, 1989-1907 ; Falla in France, 1907-14 -- The Great War and the ideology of neoclassicism in Spain. Competing "obsessions": Andalucismo and the modern French school ; Taking sides: Falla as Aliadofilo ; Debussy in Spain -- The Aesthetics of Espanolismo and Diaghilev's reading of Spain: the evolution of The Three-Cornered Hat. El Corregidor y la molinera ; From pantomime to ballet: a new reading of Spain -- The Three-Cornered Hat and its Spanish critics. Espanolismo and the black legend ; The "Rebellion of reality" and dehumanized art ; "Melancholy, humble voices" and the aesthetic of Manel Azana -- Stravinsky in Spain, 1921-25. Spain, Russia, and the "East" ; Retreat from the "East": Pulcinella, the past, and a new nationalism -- El retablo de Maese Pedro: Falla's reading of the Quijote. Slapstick and sublime madness ; Quijotismo and Falla's el retablo -- Universalism and Spanish religious identity: Falla's harpsichord concerto. Toward the tradition of Victoria and Cabezon ; The death of "Guilty sensuality": Falla's harpsichord concerto and Spanish mysticism -- At the height of the silver age. Literary currents, youth, and utopian universalism ; Falla in the republican Spain: "Pure ideals," error, and the "Brutal magic" of revolutions -- Appendix 1. Chronology of Spanish history, 1874-1975 -- Appendix 2. General-readership publications with regular reporting on music in Pre-Civil war Spain, Madrid and Barcelona, eighteenth through twentieth centuries -- Appendix 3. The musical press, Madrid and Barcelona, 1850-1940 -- Appendix 4. Theatrical collaborations between Falla and the Martinez sierras -- Appendix 5. The ballets Russes in Spain during World War I -- Appendix 6. Stravinsky's visits to Spain, 1916-36: performances and repertory -- Appendix 7. Representative early performances of El retablo de Maese Pedro -- Appendix 8. Musical realizations of the Quijote, eighteenth through twentieth centuries. |
| Abstract | Although studies of Modernism have focused largely on European nations, Spain has been conspicuously neglected. As the author argues in this compelling book, such neglect is wholly undeserved. Through composer Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), Hess explores the advent of Modernism in Spain in relation to political and cultural tensions prior to the Spanish Civil War. The result is a fresh view of the musical life of Spain that departs from traditional approaches to the subject and reveals an open and constantly evolving aesthetic climate. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-330) and index. |
| LCCN | 2001001222 |
| ISBN | 0226330389 (alk. paper) |