"La Música"

In this first-ever critical edition of La música, Bruce A. Boggs examines the cultural significance of Tomás de Iriarte's poem, taking an interdisciplinary approach that seeks to reconstruct the musical and literary contexts which informed this singular work. Iriarte's La música began as an entertaining project for friends and fellow musicians who gathered in musical tertulias known as Academias de Armonía. Soon, Iriarte would expand his work to five cantos and approximately 2,840 verses which included a prologue and appended notes. La música, which would become Spain's most significant...

