Back to results

Universidad de La Rioja (España)

Música orquestal en las catedrales españolas entre c. 1770 y c. 1840: funciones, géneros y recepción

Abstract

dc:description

The present doctoral thesis undertakes an investigation focused on the performance, composition and reception of orchestral music in Spanish cathedrals during the last quarter of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century, a period that, more precisely, could be placed between c. 1770 and c. 1840. During this epoch, orchestral music was characterized by its ubiquity, since it was performed in diverse contexts, generally of a secular nature: theaters, public concerts, dances, academies or private concerts. However, the preservation of abundant orchestral compositions in numerous Spanish cathedral archives is an eloquent testimony of how this type of music was also commonly used in ecclesiastical contexts. Despite this evidence, little research has studied the presence of these orchestral repertoires in religious spaces. This thesis, characterized by its transversal approach and an essentially comparative narrative, offers a panorama of this reality in the Spanish case. This study is structured in three sections —functions, genres and reception—, the second and the third being subdivided into two chapters each. The first chapter documents, firstly, in which festivities and cathedral’s ceremonies the orchestral music was performed, and, secondly, what function this type of music played in the ceremonies of these institutions. The second section focuses on orchestral works composed by cathedral musicians, which are grouped by genres: orchestral verses (chapter 2) and a selection of twenty symphonies and overtures (chapter 3). In this way, various unpublished orchestral repertoires have been recovered and are evaluated in comparison with other similar corpora. The last section of this study is dedicated to the reception of European orchestral music in Spanish cathedrals, in accordance with the latest historiographical trends. This section is articulated by means of two complementary chapters: the first offers a panorama of the Spanish cathedral sources containing Joseph Haydn’s symphonies (chapter 4), while the second deals with a selection of orchestral repertoires composed by European musicians who were contemporaries of Haydn, among whom Ignace Pleyel stands out (chapter 5). In conclusion, this thesis allows us to complete our vision of one of the spaces where orchestral music could be listened in Spain during the last three decades of the eighteenth century and the first four decades of the nineteenth century.

Degree

thesis:*
Grantor dc:publisher
Universidad de La Rioja (España)
Year dc:date
2019

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Santos Conde, Héctor Eulogio
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Marín López, Miguel Angel (null)

Subjects

dc:subject × 30

Rights

dc:rights
Statement dc:rights
  • LICENCIA DE USO: Los documentos a texto completo incluidos en Dialnet son de acceso libre y propiedad de sus autores y/o editores. Por tanto, cualquier acto de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública y/o transformación total o parcial requiere el consentimiento expreso y escrito de aquéllos. Cualquier enlace al texto completo de estos documentos deberá hacerse a través de la URL oficial de éstos en Dialnet. Más información: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/info/derechosOAI | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS STATEMENT: Full text documents hosted by Dialnet are protected by copyright and/or related rights. This digital object is accessible without charge, but its use is subject to the licensing conditions set by its authors or editors. Unless expressly stated otherwise in the licensing conditions, you are free to linking, browsing, printing and making a copy for your own personal purposes. All other acts of reproduction and communication to the public are subject to the licensing conditions expressed by editors and authors and require consent from them. Any link to this document should be made using its official URL in Dialnet. More info: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/info/derechosOAI
Language dc:language
spa

Identifiers

dc:identifier.*
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:dialnet.unirioja.es:TES0000022905

Chain of custody

source
Harvested from
Dialnet
Base URL
dialnet.unirioja.es/oaites/OAIHandler
Last updated
2026-07-24
Source record
OAI-PMH GetRecord
citation

Santos Conde, Héctor Eulogio. Música orquestal en las catedrales españolas entre c. 1770 y c. 1840: funciones, géneros y recepción. Universidad de La Rioja (España), 2019. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaites?codigo=232088