“I Do Not Know What It Is about Your Singing Voice / that Robs the Soul”. Musical Annotations on Los celos hacen estrellas

Abstract

This article aims to update and complete information about the extant musical sources of the zarzuela Los celos hacen estrellas by Juan Vélez de Guevara and Juan Hidalgo with a view to an imminent new edition of this stage work. Apart from addressing the secondary literature that has been generated to date, special attention is paid to the study of the compositions presently preserved in the Sección de Música at the Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid on the one hand, and to the “a lo divino” (sacred) and “a lo humano” (secular) sources held at the music archive of Valladolid Cathedral on the other. This has permitted issues of pertinence and the authorship of one of the tonos (songs) associated with this work to be corrected and qualified, as well as details relating to the circulation, reception and assimilation of stage music during the last third of the 17th century to be more clearly understood.