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Spain's musical history has often resided on – or been consigned to – the margins of historical narratives about mainstream European culture. As a result, Spanish music is universally popular but seldom well understood outside Iberia. This volume offers, for the first time in English, a comprehensive survey of music in Spain from the Middle Ages to the modern era, including both classical and popular traditions. With chapters from a group of leading music scholars, the book reevaluates the history of music in Spain, from devotional works of the Middle Ages and Renaissance to masterpieces of the postwar avant-garde. It surveys a deep legacy of classical music as well as a rich heritage of folklore comprising songs and dances from Spain's many regions, especially but not exclusively Andalusian flamenco. Folklore in turn informed the nationalist repertoire with which music lovers are most familiar, including pieces by Albéniz, Granados, Falla, Rodrigo, and many others.

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Walter Aaron Clark is Distinguished Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Riverside, where he founded and directs the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music. He is the author of Isaac Albéniz: Portrait of a Romantic (1999; 2002), also available in Spanish translation (2002). His book Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano (2006; 2011) won the 2006 Robert M. Stevenson Award in Iberian musicology from the American Musicological Society (2016). Ana Llorens is Assistant Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is one of the editors of El canto mozárabe y su entorno. Estudios sobre la música de la liturgia viejo hispánica (2013), among other publications. In 2024 she received the 'Julián Marías' Research Prize in the Humanities (Comunidad de Madrid). Álvaro Torrente is Professor in Music History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Chair of the Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales. His publications include La ópera en España e Hispanoamérica, Devotional Music in the Iberian World, which received the AMS Stevenson Award, and Historia de la Música en España e Hispanoamérica (2016).

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