1st Edition

Spanish Piano Music and Folklore from the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries Crossing Paths

By Ana Benavides Copyright 2025
370 Pages 134 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

370 Pages 134 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Foreword by Walter Aaron Clark

Chapter 1: Defining Spain: Its Music and Identity

Chapter 2: National Culture As Identity

Chapter 3: Domenico Scarlatti

Chapter 4: New Pathways

Chapter 5: Characteristics of the Spanish Piano Repertoire

Chapter 6: Songs

Chapter 7: Dances

Chapter 8: Wings of the Harp, Tail of the Piano, and Soul of the Guitar: The Versatility of Pitch on the Piano

Conclusion

Bibliography

Biography

Ana Benavides is currently a distinguished professor at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid and associated professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Walter A. Clark is distinguished professor of musicology at the University of California, Riverside. He has written biographies of Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Federico Moreno Torroba (with William C. Krause), and Joaquín Rodrigo (with Javier Suárez-Pajares), as well as a research and information guide on Rodrigo for Routledge.