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18th-century hymns (2 C, 37 P) Pages in category "18th-century songs" ... Spanish Ladies; Su patriotu sardu a sos feudatarios; T.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:18th-century Spanish musicians. It includes Spanish musicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
In contrast to a popular misconception, "Kuando el rey Nimrod" is not a song that dates from the times when the Jews lived in Spain and Portugal in the Middle Ages, and has its roots in a piyyut called La vocación de Abraham, of which several versions have been found that date from the 18th century and were written by anonymous authors in the former Ottoman Empire.
In 18th-century Bourbon Spain, Italian artistic style dominated in the arts, including Italian opera. Zarzuela , though still written to Spanish texts, changed to accommodate the Italian vogue. During the reign of King Charles III , political problems provoked a series of revolts against his Italian ministers; these were echoed in theatrical ...
Derived from medieval dance forms, the 15th century Spanish villancico was a type of popular song sung in the vernacular and frequently associated with rustic themes. The poetic form of the Spanish villancico was that of an estribillo (or refrain) and coplas (stanzas), with or without an introduction. While the exact order and number of ...
The courtly Baroque zarzuela, a mixture of sophisticated verse drama, allegorical opera, popular song, and dance, became the fashion of the Spanish court for over the next 100 years. The opera artform flourished in Spain during the eighteenth century, with two excellent composers, Sebastián Durón and Antonio Literes.
The style of Spanish popular songs of the time is presumed to have been heavily influenced by the music of the Moors, especially in the south, but as much of the country still spoke various Latin dialects while under Moorish rule (known today as the Mozarabic) earlier musical folk styles from the pre-Islamic period continued in the countryside ...
Bolero is a Spanish dance in 3/4 time popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It originated from the seguidilla sometime between 1750 and 1772, [2] and it became very popular in Madrid, La Mancha, Andalusia and Murcia in the 1780s.