Research questions and conclusions about the imbrication between Historically Informed Performance Practice (Early Music) and Ethnomusicology

Research questions and conclusions in the field of performance practice

Thoughts and conclusions about the work with style-bound models of improvisation / composition (partimento)

Discussions about scholarship in Postcolonial Studies in realtionship to music

If classical music is made to divide people, the Fandango has been there to unite them. Read more about how.

A few days ago I was in a little town near Saragossa, singing at a Jota school of renowned tradition. Through the guidance of my Teacher Sonia Platero I was introduced to the communal life of the inhabitants of Épila, Aragón, who participate actively in preserving traditional singing. Jota del Ebro (The Jota of the Ebro Valley) is a style of four stanza Strophe sung freely to the Fandango chord-alternation (:V-I:) If the Fandango is the Hispanic Dance, I would say learning the jota has meant for me learning THE Spanish song!