Music and Power in Early Modern Spain: Harmonic Spheres of Influence

ISBN-13: 9781032053585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 164 str.

Timothy M. Foster

Opis

This book explores the representation of music in early modern Spanish literature and reveals how music was understood within the framework of the Harmony of the Spheres, emanating from cosmic harmony as directed by the creator.

Spis treści

1. Songs in the Key of Spain: Vihuela and the Ideology of Musical Humanism  2. Cervantes Off-Key: Irony and Imperialism in the Novelas ejemplares  3. Pre-Columbian Providentialism: Musical Origins in Andean Imagination  4. The King’s Polyphony and the Composing of the Americas  5. Four-Part Harmony for the Four-Part Empire: Calderón’s Musical Metaphors at the Court of Philip IV  6. Immaculate Composition: Religion, Race, and Propaganda

O autorze

Timothy M. Foster holds a PhD in Spanish from Vanderbilt University and specializes in early modern Spanish literature. He has published on metafiction, Spanish influence in the Southwest and Great Plains, and the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. He teaches Spanish in Oskaloosa, Iowa.