Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism
- The Cambridge History of Music
- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Music Examples, Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Early History of Music Criticism
- Part II The Rise of the Press
- Part III Critical Influence and Influences
- Part IV Entering the Twentieth Century
- 15 Music Criticism in the United States and Canada up to the Second World War
- 16 Music Criticism in Portugal: Towards an Overview
- 17 Spanish Music Criticism in the Twentieth Century: Writing Music History in Real Time
- 18 Critical Battlegrounds in the French Third Republic
- 19 British Music Criticism, 1890–1945
- 20 Music Criticism in Norway
- 21 Aesthetic Conservatism and Politics in German-Language Music Criticism, 1900–1945
- 22 Music Criticism in Hungary until the Second World War
- 23 The ‘People’ in Czech and Slovak Music Criticism
- Part V New Areas
- Part VI Developments since the Second World War
- Postlude
- Bibliography
- Index
17 - Spanish Music Criticism in the Twentieth Century: Writing Music History in Real Time
from Part IV - Entering the Twentieth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2019
- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism
- The Cambridge History of Music
- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Music Examples, Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Early History of Music Criticism
- Part II The Rise of the Press
- Part III Critical Influence and Influences
- Part IV Entering the Twentieth Century
- 15 Music Criticism in the United States and Canada up to the Second World War
- 16 Music Criticism in Portugal: Towards an Overview
- 17 Spanish Music Criticism in the Twentieth Century: Writing Music History in Real Time
- 18 Critical Battlegrounds in the French Third Republic
- 19 British Music Criticism, 1890–1945
- 20 Music Criticism in Norway
- 21 Aesthetic Conservatism and Politics in German-Language Music Criticism, 1900–1945
- 22 Music Criticism in Hungary until the Second World War
- 23 The ‘People’ in Czech and Slovak Music Criticism
- Part V New Areas
- Part VI Developments since the Second World War
- Postlude
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines how the documenting and reflecting on current musical life carried out by two Spanish music critics whose careers spanned most of the twentieth century – Adolfo Salazar (1890–1958) and Federico Sopeña (1917–91) – provided a crucial foundation for the historiography of Spanish music after 1900. For decades, Salazar and Sopeña have shaped our thinking about Spanish twentieth-century music; their works are still regarded as authoritative to a considerable extent and they are frequently cited as secondary sources in studies of Spanish music. Indeed, it is only in the last decade that their writings and biographies have started to be examined with a view to identifying and critiquing the master narratives they crafted to present and explain Spanish music of the twentieth century: the music they were immersed in and, in some cases, turned into history almost from the moment they heard it for the first time.
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- The Cambridge History of Music Criticism , pp. 331 - 343Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019