Spain : a musician's journey through time and space, by Walter Starkie

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Note: From the Wanda Landowska and Denise Restout Papers in the Library of Congress.

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v. 1, The musical journey through time: The bull's hide -- Saint Isidore of Seville, the first Spanish musician -- Gregorian chant : Cluny and Charlemagne -- Alfonso the Wise : minstrels and troubadours -- The golden treasury of the minstrels -- The song of the Sibyl -- Music in the fifteenth century -- Music at the court of Ferdinand and Isabel -- The mystery play at Elche -- Valencia in the Renaissance -- Music in the reign of Charles V -- Philip II, the Maecenas of Spanish music -- Music and the theatre in the seventeenth century in Italy and Spain -- The eighteenth century -- The Spanish revival in drama and music -- The Spanish musical demon spreads its wings
v. 2: Spain from coast to coast. The Basques ; Santander ; The Asturias ; Galicia ; Estremadura and the centre of Spain ; New and old Castile ; Navarre and Aragon ; Catalonia ; The Kingdom of Valencia ; The Balearic Islands ; The dawn-singers of Murcia ; La Mancha, the land of Don Quixote ; Seville in Holy Week ; Spanish folk-songs and folk-dances through the zarzuelas -- The Gypsy journey. The soul of Andalusia ; The seven mysteries of the Romanichals ; The Andalusian and Gypsy Zambra -- The resurgence of Spanish music in the twentieth century

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