Author of two books on Issac Albeniz, including Issac Albeniz: A Guide to Research (1998), Walter Aaron Clark has compiled thirteen essays that discuss the various aspects of Latin American music. The essays cover the social and political impact the music generated as well as the rhythmic development of the various genres. In this essential book, significant personalities, including Carmen Miranda, are discussed. The scope of the contributors is vast as divergent musical styles such as the...

This is a pioneering work on the study of popular music—songs and dances—from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. The piano was the dominant solo instrument in European art music of this period, including Spanish, and Ana Benavides uses this as a vehicle for examining a wide variety of vernacular songs and dances, offering a wealth of musical, historical, and ethnographic insight. First published in Spanish in 2019, this translation by Walter Aaron Clark shows how one of the most ...

"This is a story about Walter Fricke and Aaron Fricke, father and son, heterosexual and gay (respectively on all counts). . . ."It has taken six years to complete this book. During that time, there were periods when it was worked on steadily and times when the material was abandoned as hopeless. The book changed as our father/son relationship changed, and each transformation of the book reflected the transformations in our relationship. It is neither the same book nor the same relat...

Between Norteño and Tejano Conjunto analyzes the origin, evolution, and dissemination of the norteño and tejano conjunto. This group represents a marginalized local identity that was transformed primarily into an identity of the northeast. It then gave way to the whole of northern México and the American Southwest, and was later assimilated internationally as a mainstream genre. This book provides a long-term historic vision of conjunto and the various musical forms it uses, such as polka,...

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Set during the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the novel traces Edward Waverley, a young Hanoverian officer, as he drifts from English complacency into Highland loyalties, torn between prudence and charisma. In the unabridged text, Scott's ironic narrator blends romance with documentary verisimilitude—dialect, antiquarian notes, legal minutiae—so that Tully-Veolan's faded feudalism and Prestonpans' sudden violence become a meditation on historical change. Scott, a Scottish advocate and Sheriff-De...

Set in late fourteenth-century Perth under the waning reign of Robert III, The Fair Maid of Perth braids civic ritual, clan rivalry, and intimate romance. Scott evokes burgh guild life around Simon Glover and his steadfast daughter Catherine, while the fiery armourer Henry Gow and the conflicted Highland youth Conachar are drawn toward the combat on the North Inch. With archival scruple and dramatic drive, he opposes Lowland law to Highland honor, threads in royal intrigue—Albany, Rothesay...

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Waverly (1814) virtually inaugurates the historical novel, entwining Edward's education with the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Stationed in Scotland, the ingenuous officer drifts from Hanoverian loyalty toward Fergus and Flora Mac-Ivor, counterpoised by Rose Bradwardine and her whimsical Baron. Scott's digressive, ironic narrator layers dialect, humor, and antiquarian detail across settings from Tully-Veolan to Prestonpans, balancing romance with skeptical realism to meditate on loyalty, modern...

Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is one of the most compelling figures of the late-Romantic period in music. During his return voyage to Spain after the premiere of his opera Goyescas at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1916, a German submarine torpedoed the ship on which he and his wife were sailing, and they perished in the waters of the English Channel. His death was mourned on both sides of the Atlantic as a stunning loss to the music world, for he had died at the pinnacle of his ...

Winner of the 2023 Vincent H. Duckles Award, Music Library AssociationJoaquín Rodrigo: A Research and Information Guide catalogues and summarizes the musical works and related literature of Joaquín Rodrigo (1901–99), perhaps the most important Spanish composer of concert music in the second half of the twentieth century. The guide provides annotated bibliographic entries for both primary and secondary sources, detailing several guitar concertos, concertos ...

Taking as a thread the concept of national identity, this book elucidates the sound transformations that have taken place in the world of the Latin American art song since its appearance in the late nineteenth century to the present day. The book focuses in the art songs of Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Perú, and Colombia. The book addresses the subject of performance practice of the Latin American song and ends with a proposal for its interpretation.In songs, spaces...