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Spanish music played a notable part in the early developments of western classical music, from the 15th through the early 17th century. The breadth of musical innovation can be seen in composers like Tomás Luis de Victoria , styles like the zarzuela of Spanish opera , the ballet of Manuel de Falla , and the classical guitar music of Francisco ...
Several pop songs have referenced the Twist among several other songs, sometimes calling on listeners/dancers to change their dance step when the singer calls out the name of a different dance. "Do You Love Me" – The Contours (1962). Covered by The Dave Clark Five (1964) and many others. "Land of a Thousand Dances" – Chris Kenner (1963).
Marcial del Adalid y Gurréa (1826–1881), composer; Dionisio Aguado y García (1784–1849), composer and guitarist; Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia (1561–1627), composer and organist
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Others—for example Morales and Victoria—spent large portions of their careers in Italy (though, unlike many Franco-Flemish composers of the time, Spanish composers usually returned home later in life). Guerrero's music was both sacred and secular, unlike that of Victoria and Morales, the two other Spanish 16th-century composers of the first ...
In the 1850s and 1860s a group of patriotic writers and composers led by Francisco Barbieri and Joaquín Gaztambide revived the zarzuela form, seeing in it a possible release from French and Italian music hegemony. The elements of the work continue to be the same: sung solos and choruses, spiced with spoken scenes, and comedic songs, ensembles ...
Diego Ortiz (c. 1510 – c. 1576) was a Spanish composer and music theorist in service to the viceroy of Naples ruled by the Spanish monarchs Charles V and Philip II. Ortiz published the first manual on ornamentation for bowed string instruments, and a large collection of sacred vocal compositions.
In 1997 the Fundación Isaac Albéniz was founded to promote Spanish music and musicians and to act as a research centre for Albéniz and Spanish music in general. [2] On 29 May 2010, Google celebrated Isaac Albéniz's 150th Birthday with a doodle. [13]