Joaquín Rodrigo’s Fantasía para un gentilhombre in the Context of Francoist Spain
Mr. Barrett’s lecture reads Fantasía para un gentilhombre, Rodrigo’s much-beloved second guitar concerto, in the context of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship of Spain. Drawing on evidence from regime policy and Rodrigo’s writings on his music, it argues that the composer’s basis of the concerto on 17th-century music held political resonances with the dictatorship’s ideology. This connection highlights the role of music and history in the development of national identity, which is an issue that stands at the intersection of cultural politics and nationalism.
This is the second lecture of a two-part series.
About the Speaker
Andrew Barrett is a Ph.D. student in musicology at Northwestern University. His research focuses on music from Spain and intersections between music and performance studies. He previously earned an MM in guitar and an MA in musicology from Indiana University and a BM in guitar from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In 2019, his paper “Shared Visions of the Eternal: Joaquín Rodrigo’s Fantasía para un gentilhombre and Francoist Spain” won the outstanding student paper award at the fall meeting of the American Musicological Society’s Midwest Chapter.
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