I was born in Madrid in 1963, and studied Piano and Music Theory at the Conservatories of Madrid and Salamanca, and Musicology at the University of Salamanca, where I graduated in 1993 Between 1988 and 1991 I taught Piano and Music Theory in Salamanca; from 1991 until 1994 I worked as a free-lance on music publishing; my clients include Boydell & Brewer Ltd., Thamesis, the Sociedad General de Autores de España and the University of Salamanca. Since 1992 I have regularly collaborated with the Spanish music magazine Scherzo.
In the course 1992-93 I studied at the Music Department of Royal Holloway College, University of London as Erasmus Student. In January 1994 I moved to St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge to read a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Music. The title of my doctoral dissertation is: The sacred villancico in early eighteenth-century Spain: the repertor y of Salamanca Cathedral.
In April 1997 I moved to the Music Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, which is my current status. My research project is to prepare a critical edition of the treatise of composition Mapa Armóni co Práctico, written by the Catalan composer Francisco Valls during the 1730s.
From 1998 to 2000 I was appointed Professor of Musicology at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Salamanca (Spain), while keeping my connection with Royal Hollowy as Honorary Research Fellow.
From 1999 to 2001 I was appointed Research Associate at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and from 2001 I became Associate Profesor of Music History.
In 2003 I was granted a major research project within the Programa Ramón y Cajal, funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología entitled Francisco Corselli y las primeras óperas italianas en Madrid, which will last until 2008
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I have been on the Net for about 14 years, and I designed my first web
pages around 1996. My current netactivity is focusing on helping Google on the development of GoogleBookSearch in Spain .
Francesco Cavalli: La Calisto, A. Torrente (ed.) (Kassel: Baerenreiter-Verlag, 2006 [in press]). (with Tess Knighton, eds.): Devotional Music in the Iberian World: The Villancico and Related Genres, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007 [in press]). (with Janet Hathaway): Pliegos de villancicos en la Hispanic Society of America
y la New York Public Library, A. Torrente (ed.), Catalogo Descriptivo de Pliegos
de Villancicos, vol. 2, (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2006 [in press]). 'La música en el teatro medieval y renacentista',
in J. Huerta Calvo (ed.), Historia del teatro español, vol. I, (Madrid: Gredos, 2003), pp. 269-302. (with A. Vera Aguilera): 'Teatro musical en España [1600-1750]', in A. Pelaez Martin (ed.),
El Corral de las Comedias y la Villa de Almagro,
(Toledo: Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, 2002), pp. 245-279. Fiesta de Navidad en la Capilla Real de Felipe V. Villancicos de Francisco Corselli de 1743,
Patrimonio Musical Español, vol. 9, (Madrid: Fundación Caja Madrid - Editorial Alpuerto, 2002). (with E. Casares Rodicio, eds.): La ópera en España e Hispanoamérica, 2 vols, (Madrid: ICCMU, 2002). (with R. Zafra and E. Borrego): Primero y segundo Isaac. Auto sacramental de Pedro Calderón de la Barca,
Patrimonio Musical Español, vol. 7, (Madrid: Fundación Caja Madrid - Editorial Alpuerto, 2001). 'The sacred villancico in Early Modern Spain: issues of form, genre and function', Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies, VIII, (2000), 57-77. (with M.A. Marín): Pliegos de villancicos en la British Library (Londres)
y la University Library (Cambridge), A. Torrente (ed.), Catalogo Descriptivo de Pliegos
de Villancicos, vol. 1, (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2000). 'Ópera y política', in E. M. Miura (ed.), Velázquez, su tiempo y la música [=Scherzo, 133], (1999), pp. 140-3. (with P.-L. Rodríguez): 'The "Guerra Manuscript" (c. 1680) and the rise of solo song in Spain',
Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 123:2, (1998), 147-90. 'Italianate sections in the villancicos of the royal chapel,
1700-1740', in M. Boyd and J. J. Carreras (eds.), Music in
Spain during the eighteenth century, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 72-79. 'Cuestiones en torno a la circulación de músicos catedralicios en la España Moderna', Artigrama (1997). 'La cantata española en los albores del setecientos',
Scherzo, 117, (1997), 114-7. ' «La Harmonía en lo Insensible y Eneas en Italia», una <zarzuela casera> de Diego Torres Villarroel y Juan Martín', in R. Kleinerzt (ed.), Teatro y música en
España (siglo XVIII) (Kassel, Reichenberger, 1996) 219-34. 'Un villancico danzado y representado: "Los figurones
ridículos en Salamanca" ', in C. Caballero Fernández-Rufete,
G. Vega and M. A. Virgili Blanquet (eds.), Actas del Congreso "Música
y Literatura en la Península Ibérica (1600-1750)",
(Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y León, in press). 'Conference: Music in Spain during the eighteenth century', Early Music,
XXII:2, (1994), 361-2. 'A primera vista: Finale 3.0', Macworld España, 22, (1994),
106. 'The hapless villancico', Early Music, XXIII:3, (1995), 501-2. 'Valladolid conference on music and literature', Early Music, XXIII:3,
(1995), 530-2. Several articles in E. Casares (ed.), Diccionario de la música
española e hispanoamericana, (Madrid: Sociedad General de Autores,
in press), Several articles in S. Sadie (ed.) New Grove Dictionary of Music
and Musicians (London, Macmillan; 2001)
Research Interests
The sacred 'villancico' and related genres. Reception and dissemination
of European music in Spain. Music, politics and society in the eighteenth
century. Cross-influences between Italy, the Iberian peninsula and Latin
America. Theoretical issues in early music, particularly in relation with
tonality and rhythm. Reception of Greek ryhthmic theory in the Rennaissance.
Other intersets
I am quite involved in the use of computers in Academia. I have some
knowledge on several software packages, including Finale, FileMaker Pro,
Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word, Excel, etc. I have given courses on some
of these in Spanish universities.
Publications
Contact Details
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Music Department Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX Tel.: 01784-443532 Fax.: 01784-439441 Email: vhwm002@sun.rhul.ac.uk |
Universidad Complutense de Madrid Facultad de Geografia e Historia Departamento de Arte III Profesor Aranguren s/n 28040-Madrid, Spain Tel.: +34-91-39457669 Fax.: +34-91-3104159 Email: atorrent@ghis.ucm.es |