You might have heard musicians talk about “early world music” referring to groups like Constantinople or instrumentalist like Ross Daly. But is there an exact definition of this particular musical trend and why should you, as an early music enthusiast or a world music lover, be interested?
Please listen to a beautiful Swedish ‘folkkoral’, Du livsens [...]
18 September 2009 – 18:30
Salinas, de Encina and me
The dull sound from the belfry scarcely reaches the interior of the Cathedral. The strokes sound rather unreal.
I notice that this time just one stroke was heard, consequently there’s just half an hour left before the guardian will return and let me out into the noisy real world of Salamanca.
What am [...]
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Legends from Via Stellae
This is one of the well-known legends from the pilgrim road to Santiago de Compostela.
Less known is the song Por dereito ten a Virgen from the collection Cantigas de Santa Maria, but the lyrics tell by and large the same story.
Please listen to Por dereito ten a Virgen, in an instrumental version, [...]
The concert dates 2010 for the Via Stellae program (a musical journey along the ancient roads of pilgrimage) have now been fixed:
1st period: Monday 25.01.10 to Sunday 07.02.10
2nd period: Monday 02.08.10 to Sunday 15.08.10
3rd period: Monday 18.10.10 to Sunday 31.10.10
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Todo el mundo en general was once a very popular religious song with lyrics by the Andalusian poet Miguel Cid. The popularity it gained in its time was tremendous, in fact today we wouldn’t hesitate to classify it as a “hit”. But like many other popular songs throughout history, Todo el mundo had its palmy [...]
A story from real cyber life:
The other day I received a message from a Japanese musician via the internet portal and radio Last.fm. Just downloaded Todo el mundo en general from our album Via Stellae, he had put the song on what he called ‘power playing’ on his media player.
This social internet portal Last.fm gives [...]
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