Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-227) and index.
Contents:
Overture. Theater music and the problem of Spanish nationalism -- Theatrical and political revolutions in nineteenth-century Spain -- Urban life on the Spanish musical stage -- Staging history, staging national identity -- Regenerationism, Viennese operetta, and Spanish nationalism -- The romance of rural Spain and the failure of the restoration settlement -- Zarzuela and the operatic tradition -- Classicism and historicism.
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