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A guide to playing the baroque guitar
James Tyler offers a practical manual to aid guitar players and lutenists
in transitioning from modern stringed instruments to the baroque guitar. He begins
with the physical aspects of the instrument, addressing tuning and stringing
arrangements and technique before considering the fundamentals of baroque guitar
tablature. In the second part of the book Tyler provides an anthology of
representative works from the repertoire. Each piece is introduced with an
explanation of the idiosyncrasies of the particular manuscript or source and
information regarding any performance practice issues related to the piece itself --
represented in both tablature and staff notation. Tyler's thorough yet practical
approach facilitates access to this complex body of work.
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Spanish Music as Perceived in Western Music Historiography: A Case of the Black Legend?
This study postulates that the marginal position of Spanish music in Western music historiography cannot be attributed unilaterally to Spain, but is the consequence of the political and cultural factors that underlay the Western attitude toward Spain. It was not merely the inaccessibility of Spanish music sources in the West that relegated Spain to the periphery, but, even more so, the lack of sufficient interest in a country that did not live up to the expectations of Western aesthetic precepts. Spanish national identity as an Other was so deeply entrenched in Western perception since the seventeenth century, that it was reduced to a series of negative topoi, known today collectively as the 'Black Legend'. (This term encompasses all the falsifications and misinformation that accumulated against Spain for centuries, as well as the consequent omission of what counted in Spain's favor and the exaggeration of what counted against it.) The extent to which the Black Legend infiltrated into Western music historiography is examined through major sources from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.
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