This is the first monographic work to be published on one of the most important musical centres and chapels in the Valencian Community: the cathedral of Segorbe, which until now had not been researched. Thanks to the work carried out in the archives of the cathedral on the chapter minutes, factory books and other unpublished documentation, it has…[Read more]

In his response to the Dauphin, his threats before Harfleur’s walls, and his St. Crispin’s Day oration, Henry V deploys what we might call proleptic histories of the present as a means of rhetorical persuasion. Henry invites his audiences, that is, to imagine themselves in the future, understanding the present as part of their own history. Hen…[Read more]

In this early article, written in the wake of the publication of Alessandro Martinengo’s _La astrología en la obra de Quevedo_ (Madrid: Alhambra, 1983), Dr. Davis focuses on the astrological tropes in a Quevedo sonnet on the nativity of Christ to see whether this poetic text can shed additional light on the poet’s documented penchant for…[Read more]

Professor Davis’s early article on appropriations of the Indies by Spanish poets who remained in Spain invites us to contemplate a body of poetry that plays the idea of American treasures against the value of true, spiritual riches.

Several of Francisco de Quevedo’s hagiographic poems are puzzling because of their irreverent tone. Edward M. Wilson and Jose Manuel Blecua both noted that “la relacion entre las dos caras de un Quevedo es cuestión difícil y delicada para los modernos;” indeed, the writer’s particular blend of “las burlas con las veras” has attracted attention s…[Read more]

This essay analyzes the work of the poetic function as defined by Roman Jakobson in poems by Francisco de Quevedo that concern themselves with the trope of the rending of the rocks at the moment of Christ’s death on the cross, and in other poetic texts of Quevedo.

Dictionary articles in Lexicon about women musicians

Dictionary articles in Lexicon about women musicians

This book was the result of the Prize ‘X Premio-Beca Serapio Múgica’, awarded in 2008 on a competitive basis by the City Council of Irún to develop the research project ‘La música en Irún en el siglo XIX: La capilla de música de la Iglesia de Santa María del Juncal’ (Music in Irún in the 19th century: The music chapel of the Church of Santa María…[Read more]

Because of its material characteristics, the sonic poses a challenge to the influential paradigm of religion as mediation. This article makes a case for a neo-phenomenological analytic of atmospheres in order to do justice to the sonic in anthropological approaches to religion. Approaching the sonic as atmospheric half-things, I propose a…[Read more]

Research about Bruckner and the relation of Greek-German musicologist Constanton Floros and Anton Bruckner

Chapter about the relation of Greek-german musicologist Constantn Floros and his output about Austrian composer Gustav Mahler

Dictionary Article about the 18th century Spanish composer Antonio Soler (1729-1783), chapel master of Escorial Monastery in Madrid

Critical study about the musical bibliography of Antonio Soler

Journal article about the organization of the music chapel at the royal monastery Descalzas in Madrid during the 18th century

Research about the first reception of Mozart’s music in 18th century Spain

Study about the construction of organs in North Spain by Cavaillé-Coll (19th century)

Study about the construction of organs in North Spain by Cavaillé-Coll (19th century)

Together with the cathedrals of Valencia and Orihuela and the Seminary of Corpus Christi in Valencia, the Cathedral of Segorbe is one of the main musical centres of the Valencian Community. This article is an introduction to the origin of the diocese, its difficulties in establishing itself and, finally, its administrative structure and the main…[Read more]

Studiy about the role of music at the court of Alfonso X