Leonardo García-Alarcón presents an in-depth lecture on Spanish Baroque and its wide influence beyond Europe. He explores its roots in 16th-century polyphony linked to the Roman tradition and traces how it transformed during the conquest of the Americas. The talk examines the development of a distinctive, hybrid musical language born from encounters between European forms and local traditions, addressing adaptation to vernaculars, cross-cultural exchanges and new practices. It reveals how inherited forms were reshaped in dynamic, often tension-filled contexts.
