نبذة مختصرة : The relationship between music and urban space has been a growing issue in the field of historical musicology since the 1980s. Current developments in urban history have shifted from viewing the city to be an organic totality to considering it a physical frame permitting a multiplicity of individual experiences. But focusing on the musical experiences of specific individuals implies encompassing other dimensions of urban life. In this study, I analyse musical life beyond the walls of the city, toward the urban hinterland, as well as, within the city, in the reduced geographic spaces of neighbourhoods and parishes. The wealth of detail furnished by the long journal (1769-1819) of Rafel d'Amat, baron of Maldà, an enthusiastic music-lover, makes it possible to outline the contours of his musical experiences, both within and outside the city. Other local sources, as well as the contemporaneous accounts of foreign travellers in Catalonia, complement Maldà's descriptions of musical spaces. The first part of this study ("The Tone of Sarrià". Music and Musicians between the City and its Hinterland) deals with regional festive and musical calendar, musicians' mobilities and musical practices connected with the seasonal excursions of Barcelonans. In the second part (Barcelona. Cities within the City), accounts of foreign visitors are compared to those of Maldà in order to shed light on their different and very selective use of the opportunities offered by an urban musical culture. This dissertation demonstrates some of the ways in which it is possible to identify and describe, within a single city, a multitude of approaches to music. It invites a re-examination of urban musical life in Modern Europe based on the fecundity of its internal divisions rather than on the basis of a compact unanimity of taste and choice. ; El tema de la articulación entre la música y el espacio urbano ha venido ocupando un espacio creciente en la investigación musicológica desde la década de 1980. Los planteamientos más recientes de la historia ...
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