El acompañamiento musical de piano en el inicio del cine mudo en España.Pianistas, funcionalidades, repertorios y consideraciones sociales.

Abstract

This doctoral thesis seeks to fill an existing gap in the historiography on the first stage of cinema in Spain and the musical fact related to it, within the period between the presentation of the cinematograph in Madrid in 1896 and the arrival of sound films at the end of the 1920s. This period, which has generally been called silent cinema and by extension in the Anglo-Saxon sphere with the term "silent", was nevertheless characterized by the development of a musical practice aimed at accompanying the screenings that took place in the cinema pavilions and barracks, theatres and the first cinemas. In Spain this practice, even with certain elements in common with those of other countries, had its own peculiarities due to the development of the Spanish film industry, the conception of the spectacle, the habits of the consuming public and, above all, the country's sound environment in the development of its cultural and musical life at the beginning of the 20th century, both so-called cultured music and popular music.