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A research work I prepared in 2003 on The origin of the gralla.
Click here to get the Spanish version of this writting, El origen de la gralla
Click here to see the Catalan version of the article, L'origen de la gralla
I have this writting also uploaded on the Digital Library of Tinet, where you will find as well many other works by other authors in digital form. Click Tinet Library to get there.
A short writting on The musical inspiration and the composer, an overview of the manner with which the scholars and the composers themselves have seen the phenomenon of the inspiration in the different historical times.
A research on The musicians-angels on the backs of the old gothic choir stalls of the 14th century in the cathedral of Girona: musical study of the remains preserved till the present.
Short article dedicated to the collection of madrigals by Brudieu on texts by Ausiàs March.
Short article dedicated to the presence of the Catalan popular songs in the repertoire of the choirs in Catalonia.
Short work on the catalan composer Vicenç Cuyàs, and his first and only opera of terrific success, La Fattucchiera, premiered in 1838 in Barcelona i which held 24 consecutive performances. The tittle of the work is: "Italian or french music, in the opera of Vicenç Cuyàs, La Fattucchiera?"
My study springs from the meticulous and realistic description that the french writter Gustave Flaubert does of a performance of the famous opera by Donizetti Lucie de Lammermoor at the Chapter XV of his famous novel "Madame Bovary".
Relations between text and music on the opera by Rossini La Cenerentola
Interview to the composer Guinjoan, with a short comment on the significance of his work.
Short analysis of the War Requiem by Benjamin Britten, with some considerations on the peculiarities and dificulties of its performance, specially from the point of view of its conducting.
A research work on the organization and goals of a harpsichord teaching class, corresponding to the Elementary degree, according to the spanish regulation LOGSE.
From the linked page, you will be able to open a couple of writting by Magda Polo: The programatic music, and La musical temporality.
Article on music for oboe band The oboe ensemble in german military and city music up to 1720, written by Renate Hildebrand (Germany).
A very interesting article: The teaching of music in the Middle Ages, by Jacques Viret.
The online magazine TRANS, "Revista Transcultural de Música", available on the Web of the SiBE, Society of Etnomusicology. A lot of interesting works.
The Classical Music Pages Quarterly: I supose the articles change each quarter, but right now (July 2006) there are 6 writtings, among them the reproduction of the text (german original and english translation) of the Heiligenstädter's testament , by Beethoven, and the other is the article by Schumann welcoming a young Brahms as one of the most important composers of his time.
