Well - yes - but what I really want to know is how well known was
Murcia before the Saldivar Codex hit the shelves. Sanz has always
been with us - I first heard his music played on the radio in 1954 but
Murcia seems to be a relatively late discovery.
I wonder why. There is a copy of Resumen in the Biblioteca nacional in
Madrid but Pujol doesn't seem to have been familiar with it.....
I am writing a sort of retrospective of recordings of M's music for
Hispanica Lyra trying to comment on different ways of performing it.
Any thoughts on the subject welcome!
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: [1]Rob MacKillop
To: [2]Monica Hall
Cc: [3]Vihuelalist
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Santiago de Murcia
You mean before his music became flamencofied ;-)
Rob
On 12 May 2014 14:03, Monica Hall <[4]mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
I am trying to trace printed editions and recordings of S de
Murcia's music
in any format which pre-date 1987 - the year in which the Saldivar
Codex
came to light or at least was recognized as being a source of his
music.
People like Pujol, Graciano Tarrago, Jose Azpiazu and Alexander
Bellow
published arrangements of music by Sanz, Ruiz de Ribayaz and Guerau
in the
1950/60s but they don't seem to have been aware of Murcia's music at
all.
The earliest recording which I have devoted to his music is one made
by
Gerard Arriaga in 1987. Does anyone know of recordings which
include
pieces by Murcia earlier than this - played on any kind of guitar -
or anything else for that matter..
Also (for good measure) the earliest article about him that I have a
copy
of - included in the English peiodical "Guitar News" in 1967 - is
a short
one by D.E. McConnell. It's about "Passacalles y obras" (which
McConnell
thought was the same as "Resumen de Acompanar") and this information
was
copied by Harvey Turnbull. Does anyone have any references to him
ante dating this article?
In a nutshell I am trying to ascertain how widely known Murcia was
before
the discovery of the Saldivar Codex.
Any comments would be helpful.
Best wishes to all
Monica
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