
«Cantaron desta suerte...». Functions of Music in the Mistery Play «Bodas entre el alma y el amor divino», by Lope de Vega, Religious Transposition of the Royal Weddings of 1599
Author(s) -
María Asunción Flórez Asensio
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
anuario lope de vega
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2014-8860
pISSN - 1136-5773
DOI - 10.5565/rev/anuariolopedevega.35
Subject(s) - art , humanities , musical , transposition (logic) , vega , art history , literature , philosophy , linguistics , physics , astronomy
En 1599 Lope de Vega asiste a las fiestas organizadas en Valencia con motivo de las dobles bodas reales entre Felipe III y su hermana Isabel Clara Eugenia con los archiduques Margarita y Alberto de Austria, acontecimiento histórico que, vuelto a lo divino, será plasmado en el auto que nos ocupa. Incluido al final del libro II de El peregrino en su patria, publicado cinco años más tarde (1604), este auto (así como los restantes comprendidos en la obra) nos permite afirmar no solo que Lope utiliza la música de forma más amplia en sus autos que en sus comedias, sino que —en fecha tan temprana— ya había empezado a experimentar con una serie de aspectos musicales, desarrollados por Calderón, que se convertirán en característicos del teatro español del Siglo de Oro.In 1599 Lope de Vega atended the festivities organised in Valencia to celebrate the double royal weddings between Philip III and his sister Isabella Clara Eugenia with the archdukes Margaret and Albert of Austria. This historical event was transformed into a religious occasion. This auto reflects a «divine» version of the facts. Included at the end of book II of El peregrino en su patria, published five years later (1604), this auto (as well as the others included in the collection) allows us to confirm not only that Lope uses music more in his mystery plays than in his comedies, but also that at this early stage he had already started to experiment with a series of musical elements that, after being developed by Calderón, came to be characteristic of Spanish Golden Age theatre