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Conference: music in Spain during the 18th century. (Iberian Discoveries II)

Early Music

| May 01, 1994 | Torrente, Alvaro | COPYRIGHT 1993 Oxford University Press. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The study of music in Spain in the 18th century has been unjustly neglected, largely because of the received opinion encountered in most history books, in Spain and elsewhere, that Spanish music of this period is but a pale imitation of Italian styles and trends. Recent research is beginning to question this assumption, and this was one of the main themes emerging from the papers given at the biennial conference of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Musical Studies, Cardiff, 16-19 July 1993.

The event was co-ordinated by an Anglo-Spanish team presided over by Malcolm Boyd (University of Wales College of Cardiff) with the aid of Antonio Martin Moreno (Granada University) and Francesc Bonastre (Universidad Autonoma, Barcelona), who also gave …

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