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Aspectos de la cultura musical en la Corte de Felipe II. By Luis Robledo Estaire, Tess Knighton, Cristina Bordas Ibanez, and Juan Jose Carreras. (Patrimonio musical espanol, 6.) Madrid: Fundacion Caja Madrid, 2000. [xix, 447 p. ISBN ISBN: 8-438-10370-7. [epsilon]2.07] Music examples, illustrations, documentary appendixes, bibliography, indexes.
The extraordinary cultural efflorescence that characterized the reign of Philip II (1556-98) has spawned, especially in the last fifteen years or so, a spate of interpretative studies that shed light on the monarch's complex and intense relationship with the arts and artists. Yet even Fernando Checa's monumental Felipe II mecenas de las artes (3d ed. [Madrid: Nerea, 1997]), arguably the most important and influential of these studies, all but ignores the role of music and musicians within the Spanish court. Since Philip II's reign coincided with a period that has rightly come to be regarded as perhaps Spanish music's most glorious--the age of Gristobal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero, Tomas Luis de Victoria, Antonio de Cabezon, and Sebastian de Vivanco--we ought to be asking what this consignment of music to the cultural periphery might mean.
Despite its unassuming title, Aspectos de la cultura musical en la cone de Felipe II is the first...
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