"El compositor Manuel Parada" y el cine patriótico de la autarquía: de "Raza" a "Los últimos de Filipinas"

Abstract

Manuel Parada de la Puente (1911-1973) was one of the leading composers of Spanish film music. From an ideological point of view, during the 1940s he was responsible for the music of two of the most important films made during the Dictatorship: Raza and Los últimos de Filipinas, representative of a type of patriotic cinema that became an institution in Spain during this period. Studies of Parada’s works are clearly lacking; hence, the objective of this article is to help in the promotion of his works and clarification of his compositional ideas and resources, by analysing the music of what are perhaps his two most emblematic films. Particular interest has been taken in contrasting the idea of the composer’s “scarce” notions of composition. However, it is not centred on an analysis of the ways in which Parada channels the ideological contents of national-Catholicism into his music, but rather attempts to study the composer’s style.