Songs of Mortals, Dialogues of the Gods: Music and Theatre in Seventeenth-Century Spain

by Louise K. Stein

This is the first comprehensive survey of seventeenth-century Spanish theatrical music to be written, 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 various...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198162731
• ISBN13: 9780198162735
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 586 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"