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SPANISH NATIONAL MUSIC

on 5XX Daventry

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THAT Spain is rich in music of its own has long been known to travellers there, particularly to those who have wandered off the usual tourist's track and seen something of the unspoiled and unsophisticated peasant folk. In Catalonia and Andalusia more than in other parts, there can still be heard folk songs and dances which have probably undergone very little change in being handed down through generations from one singer or guitar player to another. In recent times Spanish musicians have done much in tho way of collecting and arranging these fine old tunes, and listeners have had a good many opportunities of hearing such music as de Falla and Granados delight in. giving us. Vivid rhythm is their strongest characteristic, and it is often easy to imagine the thrummed guitar accompaniment to which these tunes were first sung. Even many of the dance tunes were probably sung as well as played, and, indeed, are still to this day.

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