forms of performances entertaining the world, each filling its own little definition. One of these is the zarzuela, a Spanish lyric theater drama, featuring a mix of spoken and sung scenes, popular, operatic and orchestral numbers, as well as dance. It was considered an innovative style of drama, giving function to the musical numbers within the story to advance the plot. Within zarzuela there are two main genres, Baroque and Romantic, which are then split into other sub-genres, mainly género
to incorporate religion, comedy and tragedy performances. Spain also introduced its own forms and genres of theatre with the development of the zarzuela. The genre zarzuela is a lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and singing acting. Zarzuela started to influence many Hispanic countries and Cuba developed their own traditions of Zarzuela. Pedro Calderon de la Barca is a well-known playwright during the early years of theatre in Spain. Calderon’s debut as playwright was Amor, honor
The styles of Latin music are: el mambo, la rumba, la zarzuela, flamenco, el tango ,el merengue, la cumbia and salsa El mambo and the rumba are kind of similar in sounds but experts can distinguish them by their beats. They say that the mambo’s musical has unexpected beats and that the rumba starts with a group of improvised verses. La zarzuela and the flamenco are both folkloric music from Spain, but they differ in two points. La zarzuela is from Spanish opera and the flamenco has an influence
score for a 1913 Peruvian zarzuela (Spanish musical genre) named El Cóndor Pasa (Cerrón Fetta). Only the two parts known as the “pasacalle” and “kashua” are performed in the recorded versions. In all known recordings, the pasacalle is performed before the kashua. In most versions incorporating singing, including the Simon and Garfunkel version, the kashua is omitted (Cerrón Fetta). Once the melody we know as “El Cóndor Pasa” began to be played independently of the zarzuela, Daniel Alomía Robles patented/legally
¿Qué es la vida? Un frenesí. ¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión, una sombra, una ficción, y el mayor bien es pequeño. ¡Que toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son! The Spanish Golden Age, or El Siglo de Oro, was a time for the artist, the painters, the writers, the philosophers and the lovers, but most importantly it was a time for dramatist. It began in the late fifteenth century and lasted until 1700, shortly after the death of Pedro Calderón de la Barca. During this time religion and freedom
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz was born on May 29, 1860 in Camprodón, the Catalan province of Gerona in northeastern Spain. As a child he was exceptionally gifted at the piano and gave his first public performance in Barcelona at the age of four. Two years later his mother took him to Paris where, for nine months, he studied privately with a renowned professor of piano at the Paris Conservatory. An attempt was made to enroll Albéniz at the Conservatory, but the boy was denied admission because he
Music, in the history of Puerto Rico, has played a role of great significance as a means of cultural expression. The five centuries of musical activity shows that Puerto Ricans have created, developed and promoted a variety of genres ranging from folk music, concert music and new genres. The Puerto Rican music and native musicians have shaped and enriched the identity of the Puerto Rican people and their roots. Puerto Rican music was the ultimate expression of the “Areito” (indigenous artistic traditions)
Felip Pedrell The Romantic Era of Western Music encompasses some of the most prolific composers of all time. Even non-musicians will know who Chopin, Schubert, and Beethoven are. Because of this, though, it was especially hard to break through as a composer and musician.The Romantic genre dominated Germany and Austria, so it makes sense that these two countries/nationalities are commonly associated with it. However, Felip Pedrell is an outlier; he composed out of Catalonia, Spain, and absolutely
Exploring Different Styles of Popular Music In this project, I aim to explore the different styles of popular music that have been successful from the 1960s to the present in Spain, why they have been popular, where they originated from, their history and what the music is actually like. To find out a type of music's origins, it is sometimes helpful to know where the country is to find out where influences could have come from, and even a certain amount about the country's history. So here
Isaac Albéniz was a nationalist composer, and one of the greatest composers Spain has ever produced. Among the many musicologists who have researched and written about the music of Albéniz, and the many pianists who have had occasion to comment on it, there is universal agreement regarding the artistic merit of his magnum opus, Iberia. Its rich harmonic vocabulary, rhythmic complexity, extensive dynamic range, and the ambitiousness of its architectural design are indeed praiseworthy; and in most