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[...] if there were to be only a single merit to the publication under review, it would have to be its wide-ranging ambition to cover all angles of the genre, its history, and its composers, in addition to providing a reliable text of its major works geared to the needs of musicians and scholars alike. If Fétis's dictionary entry signaled an awakening of interest in this composer, it was really only in 1955, when Higini Anglès published a scholarly modern edition of selections of the music, that these compositions became readily available to performers and a modern audience. Anglès considered Flecha's works a source of popular music that could have helped preserve historical popular songs that were eventually lost in the oral tradition, just like the songs included in Francisco de Salinas's De musica libri septem Salamanca, 1577, 1592; reprint of 1577 ed. by Macario Santiago Kastner, Documenta Musicologica, Reihe 1:
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Las Ensaladas (Praga, 1581): Con Un Suplemento de Obras Del Género
SPANISH SALAD
Las ensaladas (Praga, 1581): Con un suplemento de obras del género. Estudio y edición Maricarmen Gómez Muntané. Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana/ Institut Valencià de la Música, c2008. [Vol. 1: Estudio, 193 p. Vol. 2: Edición, 464 p. Vol. 3: Ed. facs. de las partes vocals (4 partbooks: tiple, iv p., 56 fols.; alto, iv p., 54 fols.; tenor, iv p., 53 fols.; baxo, iv p., 51 fols.). ISBN 978-84-482489-1-8 (vol. 1), 978-84-482489-2-5 (vol. 2), 978-84- 482489-3-2 (vol. 3), 978-84-482489-0-1 (set). i55]Among listeners and performers of early Iberian music, the ensalada is considered one of ...See the full content of this document
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