Sheet Music in Harmonia: Revista Musical (1916-1936): Art music, lyric theatre and social dance for wind bands in Spain

Abstract

Harmonía is a music magazine founded in Madrid in 1916, and published almost continuously until 1959. The first part of the magazine included various interesting articles - about wind band works, composers, music history or education, and so on - written by the leading music critics and scholars of the time. The second part was dedicated to publishing wind band sheet music for different band sizes, in varied styles. The repertoire published in the first twenty years of the magazine (1916 - 36) demonstrates how art music, lyric theatre and social dance provided a powerful outlet for music culture through wind bands in Spain.