La música de los viejitos: Hispano Folk Music of the Río Grande del Norte

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This long-awaited book vividly documents the folk music of El Rio Grande del Norte, an area extending from the Mexican border at the south to Southern Colorado at the north and from the Great Plains at the east to the Continental Divide at the West. Loeffler has collected examples of the musical forms used over the centuries on this incessantly isolated and harsh but beautiful region. A blend of religious and secular music from sixteenth-century Spain, Mexican-influenced folk tunes, and melodies indigenous to the life of the region, the music covered here includes romances, trovos, cuandos and decimas, inditas, corridos, canciones, ceremonial and spiritual music, and dance music.

Each song appears both in Spanish and English. For lots of, transcriptions of the musical notations are provided in addition to graphic illustrations of dance technique. A companion set of compact discs could also be to be had. Photographs and biographies of active folk musicians lend a hand complete the record of this wealthy and enduring musical tradition.

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