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FIMTE WORKSHOPS ON SPANISH KEYBOARD MUSIC Barcelona , 1st to 5th July 2013
Milano, (Fall 2014) Villa Medici-Giulini Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments
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14th FIMTE INTERNATIONAL COURSES ON SPANISH KEYBOARD MUSIC Sonatas and Dances: Domenico Scarlatti and the Eighteenth century Spanish Keyboard Music school Barcelona , 1st to 5th July 2013 Instructors: Luisa Morales (harpsichord) Cristóbal Salvador (dance and castanets) Languages: Spanish, Catalan, English, French, Italian FIMTE is organizing a series of workshops intended to musicians who want to have an accomplished and up-to-date knowledge on Spanish Keyboard Music, by completing a study program in which different aspects of Spanish keyboard music will be dealt by well known scholars and performers. This workshop focus on the performance of the sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti and the eighteenth century Spanish keyboard music school. Repertoire: Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, (specially recommended: K.105, K.115, K.208, K.209, K.322, K.380, K.376, K.454, K.491) José de Nebra, Moreno y Polo, Ferrer, Antonio Soler. Fandangos by Nebra, Soler and Scarlatti.
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MOJACAR-GARRUCHA, ALMERIA 11th-13th October 2013 CALL FOR FRINGE CONCERTS Spanish and Latin American Music Instruments: harpsichord, clavichord, organ, piano (solo, chamber and ensemble) Some fringe concerts will occur during the Festival (11 th -13th October). Musicians interested in performing should apply specifying "fringe" and send their program (one hour in duration), their bio and a tape of 20 minu tes playing. FIMTE offers to the musicians selected, accommodation (2 nights) and return travel to Almería (up to 200 euros per musician). Fringe concerts are included in the general programme of the Festival. |
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KEYBOARD MUSIC IN THE FEMALE MONASTERIES AND CONVENTS OF SPAIN, PORTUGAL AND THE AMERICAS Articles by Colleen Baade, Cristina Bordas, Marta Fernández Pan, Gregorio García, Louis Jambou, John Koster, Elisa Lessa, Luisa Morales, Nuria Salazar, Susanne Skyrm, Alfonso de Vicente, Cicely Winter-Ryszard Rodys Read more...
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ANTONIO SOLER (1729-1783) Llave de la Modulación y Antigüedades de la música, 1762 |
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A NEWLY DISCOVERED EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SPANISH HARPSICHORD John Koster, NMM Conservator and Professor of Music, made the first public presentation at the 10th International Symposium on Spanish Keyboard Music “Diego Fernández FIMTE 2010 of a recent discovery made during a research trip to Washington, D.C. There, in a storage facility of the Smithsonian Institution, he identified a harpsichord that had been cataloged as a nineteenth century fake as actually the sole known exemplar of an important type of mid-eighteenth- century Spanish instrument. Koster has suggested that the Smithsonian harpsichord can be attributed to Diego Fernández. Read more... |
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The C@BEZÓN500 COLLECTION The C@BEZÓN500 Collection was organised by FIMTE in 2010 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of the famous blind Spanish musician Antonio de Cabezón (1510-2010). This is the result of a joint effort by professional musicians, record labels, music students and amateur musicians who came together to make all of Cabezón's works available online over the course of this fifth centennial year. Over 60 performers from twelve different countries took part. LISTEN NOW! |
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SANTA MARÍA'S ARTE DE TAÑER FANTASÍA Tomás de Santa María (ca. 1510 – 1570) was a Spanish music theorist, organist and composer of the Renaissance. Arte de tañer fantasía was published in Valladolid in 1565. This book is a comprehensive work on keyboard technique of the time. Read more... |