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Phenomenology of music in Spain:

Many a true word is spoken in jest but one can’t disregard the vital importance of Spanish music on the development of western societies. The transcendence of Spanish music whether through the advent of brilliant musicians or the slew of dictators, never led to robbing its culture of its heartfelt jauntiness.

The Romans marked Spain in its germinal stages with various styles of music and poetry which where influenced and extracted partly from the Greeks. Inundated with various forms of musical equanimity, this phase was entangled with a long Islamic rule, which carved its imprints on the arts in general, most prominently was the effect of Moorish music followed by the various rebellions of which the Christian was the most predominant.

This led to a reclaim of power that inspired the masses, which were formally known as the reconquistas. Music such as the likes of “Cantigas de Santa Maria,” which consisted of 420 poems with musical notations exemplified brilliance but was also affected by Moorish music.

Although the expatriation of Muslims was successful, the scenery abruptly transformed into a mixture of various practices, all rejoicing in one common art, aiding in building a free platform of which humanity, self transcendence and thoughts could be portrayed in forms of dance, poetry and music.

The war ended in the 15th century championed by an “Isabella I of Castile and her husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon.” Both of them were also named: the catholic monarchs.

The renaissance came into play and marked revolutions in many intellectual pursuits, as well as social and political upheavals. Some renaissance songbooks such as the Cancionero de Palacio coincided with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs. Dissemination was an understatement. Composers like Francisco Guerrero and Tomás Luis de Victoria surged to the forefront. Popular folk and instrumental music emerged along side the worldly known, “Flamenco” which was influenced by Romani people -“Nomadic individuals widely known to have originated from Egypt.”

Throughout the 17th century, music in general reached a stalemate up until the cusps of the 19th century. And throughout, musical creativity mainly moved into areas of popular music until the nationalist revival of the late Romantic era took place.

In the 20th century, and taking the wrong side of “existentialism – is humanism,” a visionary megalomaniac dictator took power and exercised oppression by banning all things regional, including dance, music and languages all alike. He was from a military family and chose to be a soldier. He even participated in the Moroccan war, which uplifted his status into becoming the youngest general in Europe by 1926.

Surrounded by generalship, wannabe regents and usurped with jigsaw game theory, he used head of the conservative party’s Jose Calvo Sotelo’s assassination as a pretext to wage war, which led to the Spanish civil war movement, of which Franco emerged as the leader of the nationalists against the popular front government.

With the help of Germany and Italy, he won. The Soviets in their turn aided the republicans and the internationalists. Franco took preemptive measures and immediately dissolved the Spanish parliament, created a right-wing authoritarian regime and became Regent until 1978. In his latter years and due to the damage caused by the civil war, he adopted a policy of non-belligerency.

After WWII, he maintained control by applying sanctions against dissident views, imprisonment and concentration camps, such as Los Merinales in Seville.

These days, law in Spain bans any pre-constitutional symbols dating back to the Franco regime such as the national coat of arms or flag with the Imperial Eagle.

After Franco’s rule, and since we humans have various nuances and are rebellious by nature, various levels of exposure took place with other cultures and subsequently opened the door for other kinds of music to enter, such as rock n roll, punk and pop music. Today, Spain enjoys a wide range of reputable bands such as Manà who sang the famous Mariposa Traicionera, which climbed up the U.S billboards hot Latin tracks for more than twenty-six weeks.

Spain definitely embodies a ravishing tale, a historic plethora of indelible artistic measures. Spain is artisans of the past, musical treasures of the future.