Library of Rassegna iberistica

Series | Library of Rassegna iberistica
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Chapter | La música en el auto de La Maya de Lope de Vega

La música en el auto de La Maya de Lope de Vega

Abstract

Music, and especially songs, plays a fundamental role in the autos (religious plays) of El peregrino en su patria by Lope de Vega, since they form part of the structure supporting the plot of each auto. The songs included in these religious plays reveal that vocal music is not merely another structural element of the play: it is also persuasive and seeks to generate emotions, while pursuing the fulfillment of ideological, didactic and propagandist aims, for which Lope creates an association of musical sounds with specific visual images. The present study analyzes how, by reusing pre-existing songs that were well known by the audience in the auto La Maya, Lope took advantage of the enormous evocative power of music in order to transmit ideas and messages of political, moral and religious nature.  


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: July 26, 2015 | Accepted: Nov. 7, 2016 | Language: it

Keywords Auto • La Maya • Lope • Music

Copyright © 2017 María Asunción Flórez Asensio. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-163-8/RiB-5-42


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