Cuadernos Dieciochistas (Jun 2016)
Not just Opera. Generative Interactions in the Madrid Musical Theatre Scene in the Second Half of the 18th Century
Abstract
The present article discusses the presence of music in the theaters of Madrid during the second half of the Eighteenth Century. We presuppose that music was used in theatrical performances, in sainetes (and other pieces of interstitial theater) or in comedies, as ornamentation or as the main part of the work. Our aim is to study the global outlook of the theater and the role that music had in it and to understand how important it is and its role in the dramatic work and in the theater sessions. In this case, thanks to the analysis of billboard, to the extant materials of the Biblioteca Histórica de Madrid and to the Diario de Madrid, it has been possible to draft a first general approximation of the real and temporal presence of certain dramatical-musical genres and the use of music in the declaimed genres. Our study shows that there is no clear difference between the use of music in different dramatical typologies.
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