La idea musical de «barroco»genealogía y crítica
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Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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ISSN: 1885-7353
Year of publication: 2018
Issue: 23
Pages: 18-39
Type: Article
More publications in: La Torre del Virrey: revista de estudios culturales
Abstract
The term “baroque” only appears with an artistic sense in 1734, in a brief anonymous letter published in the Mercure de France, referring to Rameau’s opera Hippolyte et Aricie. Since then, there are many operatic and musical examples throughout the 18th century, in authors like J.-B. Rousseau, Pluche, D’Alambert, F.-M. Grimm, Brosses or J.-J. Rousseau. In the 19th century, however, the concept applies only to the fine arts (especially, Wölfflin), and does not appear as a category of music historiography until the early 20th century (Dent, Sachs, Grout, Bukofzer, Palisca, Buelow, and so on). We study the history of the concept and show the vagueness of the historiographical approaches.