Abstract

VERA GARCIA, Rey Fernando. The New Spain Popular Music Theater. The Case of the One-Player Tonadilla a Los retratos yronicos. Estud. hist. novohisp [online]. 2019, n.61, pp.141-149.  Epub Dec 04, 2020. ISSN 2448-6922.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24486922e.2019.61.64000.

In 18th century New Spain the tonadilla was one of the music theater genres most favored by audiences. Inventories of the Coliseo theater in Mexico City reveal the existence of a large number of musical pieces of this sort. Although the majority of them came from Spain, some were composed in New Spain as well. A transcription of the lyrics for Los retratos irónicos, a solo tonadilla of Mexican origin, is offered here.

Keywords : Mexican theater; eighteenth century theater; tonadilla; short plays; musical theater.

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