TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
9th Biennial Conference on Baroque Music
ABSTRACT
Corelli in the Spanish provinces: the reception of Corelli´s sonatas
in Jaca
Miguel Ángel Marín
If Corelli studies has virtually neglected the reception of his music in
late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Spain, the presence of sources
containing Corelli's music in some music archives from the Spanish provinces
has literally attracted no attention. This historiographical situation
is probably related as much to the musicological community's scarce concern
about Spain-based topics as to the pejorative, ungrounded association of
music-making in provincial towns with an obscure and backward world. However,
recent scholarship has shown that provincial towns and musicians were imbued
in institutional and personal networks that enabled them to share a wide
repertory with establishments and colleagues based on large cities. Indeed,
the provinces did participate in an international repertory, if with some
time-lag comparing with metropolitan cities. This paper uncovers an especially
rich manuscript from early eighteenth-century Jaca, a peripherally located,
small town in the Spanish Pyrenees. This source, partially done by a local
handwriting probably in the 1720s, contains a good number of Corelli's
works. This paper will attempt to contextualise the production of this
source and the function of Corelli´s music in the musical life of
a provincial town.
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