La recepción de la música española en The Criterion a través de los escritos de John B. Trend

Abstract

Between 1924 and 1929 the English hispanist and musicologist John Brande Trend published in The Criterion, the renowned London literary review edited by the poet T. S. Eliot, a serious of writings on Spanish music. The aim of the present study is to analyse these writings, their content and their relationship with the work of Trend and the editorial line of The Criterion. This literary review endorsed a universal vision of culture, in line with the concept of tradition defended by Eliot and Trend in their essays. In keeping with this attitude, one of the recurring themes is the music of Falla and the 16th Century Spanish music. Trend also tried to dispel the cliché idea that circulated in British circles that there was no other Spanish music outside Flamenco.