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This biography offers a fresh understanding of the life and work of Spanish composer Manuel de Falla (1876-1946), recognized as the greatest composer in the Spanish cultural renaissance that extended from the latter part of the 19th century until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. The biography incorporates recent research on Falla, draws on untapped sources in the Falla archives, reevaluates Falla's work in terms of current issues in musicology, and considers Falla's accomplishments in their historical and cultural contexts.

Composers --- Music --- Compositeurs --- Musique --- Biography --- History and criticism --- Biographies --- Histoire et critique --- Falla, Manuel de, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Falla y Matheu, Manuel de, --- Matheu, Manuel de Falla y, --- Falʹi︠a︡, Manuėlʹ de, --- Fa-ya, Man-nu-yüeh-tê, --- De Falla, Manuel, --- Falʹi︠a︡, M. de --- Falla, M. de --- Farya, Manueru de, --- Falla Matheu, Manuel María de los Dolores,

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"During the first decade of the 20th century, Falla, Debussy, Ravel, and Roussel composed minor works laced with exotic coloration, a type of piece that Debussy termed la machine chinoise. Various historical factors at the time, including two world fairs and the vogue for Japanese prints, brought the rage for musical exoticism to a peak. But interest in Far Eastern forms of music among composers seeking innovative forms of expression coincided with avant-garde tendencies in the treatment of tonality and form. Innovation within the machine chinoise includes structural factors only indirectly involved with exotic coloration. Although musical beauty is intuited and cannot be described in words, it exists and can be located on the basis of ideas shared by philosophers, musicologists, and composers. The role Benedictus' Javanese transcriptions play in the germination of these works fails to account for their musical beauty: these machines chinoise are minor masterpieces for the unforeseeable ingenuity and imagination with which they are composed. This book strikes a balance between history and criticism by bringing together new forms of structural analysis with newly discovered exotic influences and broader frames of historical reference."--

Exoticism in music --- Orientalism in music --- Music --- Music, Exotic --- History and criticism --- Falla, Manuel de, --- Debussy, Claude, --- Ravel, Maurice, --- Roussel, Albert, --- Roussel, Albert Charles Paul, --- Roussel, Albert Charles Paul Marie, --- Ravel, Joseph Maurice, --- Ravelʹ, M. --- Ravel, Marice, --- Ravelʹ, Moris, --- Raveru, Mōrisu, --- Debi︠u︡si, Klod, --- Debi︠u︡ssi, K. --- Debi︠u︡ssi, Klod, --- Debussy, Achille Claude, --- Debussy, C. --- Debussy, Claude --- Debuxi, --- Tu-pu-hsi, --- Falla y Matheu, Manuel de, --- Matheu, Manuel de Falla y, --- Falʹi︠a︡, Manuėlʹ de, --- Fa-ya, Man-nu-yüeh-tê, --- De Falla, Manuel, --- Falʹi︠a︡, M. de --- Falla, M. de --- Farya, Manueru de, --- Falla Matheu, Manuel María de los Dolores, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Russelʹ, Alʹber, --- Exoticism in music. --- Orientalism in music. --- History and criticism.