The Generation of '89: moving toward a new concept of the film composer in Spain. Looking back at harmony

• Autores: Sergio Lasuén Hernández
• Localización: The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music / Laura Miranda González (ed. lit.), 2024, ISBN 9781003174974, págs. 262-273
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter explores music made for films in Spain in the 1990s, a period characterized by a number of factors that influenced a progressive transformation affecting a whole range of areas (from changes to the composition process as a result of technological advances to the emergence of a new generation of young filmmakers), and by the coexistence of a highly diverse group of composers who came to be known as the “Generation of ’89.”To this end, the works of three of the most important composers of the period—José Nieto, Alberto Iglesias and Roque Baños—are analyzed with special attention to their harmonic language. Their differences and idiosyncrasies allow us not only to understand the unique qualities of this decade but also to identify relationships with the previous decade and to discern what would become some of the main traits of the Spanish film music composer of the twenty-first century.