The Soundscape of Metamorphosis: Rubens, Calderón de la Barca and zarzuela

• Mary B. Quinn ^[1]
  1. [1] University of New Mexico

     University of New Mexico

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Bulletin of Spanish Studies, ISSN-e 1478-3428, ISSN 1475-3820, Vol. 100, Nº 2-3, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Aural Culture and Poetics in the Early Modern Hispanic World: Sound, Rhythm and Music), págs. 347-368
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1080/14753820.2023.2176021
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• Resumen

  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca marked the birth of Prince Felipe Próspero (1657) with the invention of a new musical-theatrical genre: zarzuela. Entitled El laurel de Apolo, the piece retells Ovid’s myth but with some unexpected additions. Though no music survives, this article reveals how Calderón created a sensorial hierarchy, privileging sound. Surprisingly, the turn toward a sonic rendering of Ovid’s myth may be the result of a painting by Peter Paul Rubens. The following essay shows how, together with its loa, sound eclipsed the visual in this zarzuela as a means to comment on circumstances beyond the stage.