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NEW BOOK ! 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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FIMTE WORKSHOPS ON SPANISH KEYBOARD MUSIC Sonatas-Dances: Domenico Scarlatti and the Eighteenth century Spanish Keyboard Music school |
Sonatas-Dances by Domenico Scarlatti Barcelona, 25 th -29 th June 2012 This workshop focus on the performance of the sonatas-dances by Domenico Scarlatti and the eighteenth century Spanish keyboard music school. The methodological identification of these dances help us to understand its internal structure, gestural punctuation as well as other important issues -including tempo and accent- thus, giving a physical and choreographic dimension to its performance. Instructors: Luisa Morales (harpsichord) – Cristóbal Salvador (dance) Read more...
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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... |
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The Cabezón Organ Project: an Organ for Castrillo de MatajudíosOMEN IN MUSIC: SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA FollowingOctober 2010 excursion to Cabezón's home-town, Castrillo de Matajudíos in the province of Burgos, FIMTE is now involved in the project of building a sixteenth century Spanish organ for Cabezón's town. This organ will make it possile to organise concerts and courses in Cabezón's home town in the near future as a tribute to the great Renaissance keyboard composer. Read more... |
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