Letra a la tonadilla a doce, intitulada: La Plaza de Palacio de Barcelona - Anonymous; Valledor, Jacinto 1744-1809 (Barcelona Campins, 1774)
Tonadilla was a Spanish musical song form of theatrical origin; not danced. The genre was a type of short, satirical musical comedy popular in 18th-century Spain, and later in Cuba and other Spanish colonial countries. It originated as a song type, then dialogue for characters was written into the tonadilla, and it expanded into a miniature opera lasting from 10 to 20 minutes. It drew its personages from everyday life and included popular and folk music and dance, and vernacular language. The tonadilla also influenced the development of the zarzuela, the characteristic form of Spanish musical drama or comedy.
One of the works Valledor wrote when he was the first musician of the Barcelona Theatre
Note from the antiquarian Kraus, NY "The only edition of this little tonadilla, a theatrical form which reached its apogee in the eighteenth century in the urban theatre. ... There is a list of tonadillas available from the same printer at the end of the volume...."
Que se há de Cantar en el Teatro de la M.I. Ciudad de Barcelona el dia quatro de Noviembre del año 1774, Puesta en musica, por el Señor Jacinto Valledor, Maestro del Teatro
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); Libretto; Music theater; Tonadilla; Topos; Barcelona (Spain); tonadilla