Opera and Freemasonry: The Funeral Canticle of José María Velásquez

 

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف: López Maya, Juan de Dios
التنسيق: artículo original
الحالة:Versión publicada
تاريخ النشر:2016
الوصف:Cántico Fúnebre is a musical piece for tenor and orchestra written by nineteenth century Venezuelan composer Jose Maria Velasquez with lyrics by the politician and writer Francisco Conde. Cántico was written for the funeral of Juan Jose Conde, an independence leader and one of the founders of the local Masonry. The particular features of this piece are its remarkable influence of opera and the Masonic symbolism in the poem. This article provides, in first place, a vision of opera in Latin America and its use as a tool to emulate European culture. Then the process is studied by which the opera was penetrating the Masonic ritual until fully manifest in the funeral ceremony and finally, how the ruling elites, composed mostly of members of the order and the middle classes, adopted the opera as one of their main cultural values.
البلد:Portal de Revistas UCR
المؤسسة:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
اللغة:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:archivo.portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/25775
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://archivo.revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rehmlac/article/view/25775
كلمة مفتاحية:Venezuelan musicians of the Nineteenth Century
Francisco Conde
Juan José Conde
funeral rites
Músicos venezolanos del siglo XIX
ritos funerarios