Susan Boynton
Silent Music
Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music
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Details
- Product Type
- Book (Hardcover)
- Author / Composer
- Susan Boynton
- Product number
- 778134
- Languages
- english
- Release Year
- 2011
- Extent
- 240 Pages
Description
'Silent Music' explores the importance of music and liturgy in an eighteenth-century vision of Spanish culture and national identity. From 1750 to 1755, the Jesuit Andrés Marcos Burriel (1719-1762) and the calligrapher Francisco Xavier Santiago y Palomares (1728-1796) worked together in Toledo Cathedral for the Royal Commission on the Archives, which the government created to obtain evidence for the royal patronage of church benefices in Spain. With Burriel as director, the Commission transcribe...
Content
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Orthography and Terminology
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Burriel in the Spanish Enlightenment
- 2. The Commission on the Archives in Toledo Cathedral
- 3. A Gem Worthy of a King: The Facsimile of a Mozarabic Chant Book
- 4. Alfonso X in the Age of Ferdinand VI: Copying the Cantigas de Santa Maria
- 5. Palomares and the Visigothic Neumes
- Epilog...
