La música en las traducciones de teatro francés: catalogación del repertorio de Madrid entre 1770 y 1800

The reception of French theatre on the stages of Madrid took place in the last third of the eighteenth century. This paper documents the musical sources that accompanied the theatrical translations from French, determining whether they were accompanied by the orig-inal French music or whether new music was written for them. The catalogue generated will be analysed quantitatively to present a series of graphs and tables that allow us to visualize the volume of translations accompanied by music, in which theatres they were performed, what typology of music accompanied them, and how these aspects evolve chronologically. The ma-jor trend change that can be observed, consolidated in 1800, is the shift from composing new connaturalized music to importing original French music.