Category: Music
_When the leading essay of this book, "Music and Spain," first appeared it was, so far as I have been able to discover, the only commentary attempting to cover the subject generally in any language. It still holds that distinction, I believe. Little enough has been published a...
_When the leading essay of this book, "Music and Spain," first appeared it was, so far as I have been able to discover, the only commentary attempting to cover the subject gener...
2. Part 2There are other operas the scenes of which are laid in Spain. Some of them make an attempt at Spanish colouring, more do not. Massenet wrote no less than five operas on Spanish...
3. Part 3The jota is another dance in 3-4 time. Every province in Spain has its own jota, but the most famous variations are those of Aragón, Valencia, and Navarre. It is accompanied by...
4. Part 4_La Gran Vía_, which in some respects may be considered a typical zarzuela, consists of a string of dance-tunes, with no more homogeneity than their national significance would...
5. Part 5I have already referred to the Valverdes, father and son. The father, in collaboration with Federico Chueca, wrote _La Gran Vía_. Many another popular zarzuela is signed by him....
6. Part 6"The Zincali" was translated into several languages, among others into French, and among those influenced and affected by it was Prosper Mérimée; indeed it now seems probable th...
7. Part 7Adèle Isaac, a soprano, sang the part when _Carmen_ was revived at the Opéra-Comique in 1883. She did not make a very good impression but the opera was received much more favour...
8. Part 8P. 18. "Where are they?": Pedrell's _La Celestina_ has found many admirers. Camille Bellaigue in "Notes Brèves" recommends it warmly to the director of the Opéra-Comique in Pari...
9. Part 9Philip Thicknesse is one of the undeservedly forgotten figures of the eighteenth century. He wrote twenty-four books, including the first Life of Thomas Gainsborough, whom he cl...
10. Part 10I have referred to Joaquín Valverde in the text and his music has become comparatively familiar to Americans through _The Land of Joy_. José Serrano is another of the popular za...
11. Part 11Zarzuela, 14, 18, 62 _et seq._, 71, 77, 78, 79, 80, 82, 84, 86, 99, 145, 146, 148, 149, 173, 174, 175, 176, 178, 179, 181, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187
12. Part 12"Carl Van Vechten is temperamentally more of an interpretative artist than an analytical critic whose emotions are subservient to the reasoning faculties. He is subjective rathe...