El papel de la música en "Tirant lo Blanc" (Valencia, 1490)

This article studies the relatively few allusions to music appearing in Tirant lo Blanc. It discusses the constant presence of the trumpet in the text and it reveals how the novel brings excellent knowledge on the circulation of an extraordinary musical repertoire that was apparently never written or, if it ever was, it was composed much later or marginally for the minstrels’s musical wind instruments and dances. This analysis also testifies to an important vocal repertoire of oral tradition or of other type of ephemeral nature.