Resumen de Dulcinea Jazz: Don Quixote’s Queen and Lady in Some Jazz Compositions of the Past Fifty Years
The present article deals with a hitherto unexplored aspect of the reception of Miguel de Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote in music: the presence of Dulcinea in jazz, in the past fifty years (1965–present). By way of introduction, this study provides an overview of jazz music related to this literary classic in general, and of works of other musical genres—classical, pop, rock—inspired by Dulcinea; the role, the function and the symbolism of this character in the novel are also briefly summarized. The main purpose of this research is to describe and examine the various jazz compositions dedicated to this literary myth that have been recorded, published or performed in the second half of the 20th century and in the first fifteen years of the 21st, including works by composers such as Kenny Wheeler, Mitsuaki Kanno, Richard Carr, Carlo Actis Dato, Roberto Nannetti, Ron Westray, or Jasper van’t Hof.
Following this chronological catalogue, the paper concludes with a comparative analysis of the findings of this inventory, and of the most significant characteristics and data of the compositions presented here
