Thursday, June 2, 2011

Centuries-old Spanish music, free online thanks to funding from the National Library

Centuries-old Spanish music, free online thanks to funding from the National Library operas, sonatas, paso dobles, tangos, operettas, popular songs, a selection of recordings of all genres produced between 1924 and 1943 and published by companies such as The Voice of Love, Odeon and Columbia can be heard already in the web streming National Library of Spain.

The oldest Spanish work is a fragment of the teacher Dolores Breton Play your music heard in the first half of the twentieth century is now possible by connecting to the NBS website, thanks to the Hispanic Digital Library (BDH) has added to his collection of early sound recordings on disc of slate that came to the institution.

The recordings are listed in the "Catalog form 78 rpm records from the National Library" (1988), according to this institution. This catalog describes 6,507 works have been digitized and will be posted for listening in streaming. This first issue corresponds to a selection of those produced between 1924 and 1943.

The complete collection of slate records comprises some 21,000 pieces from the purchases, donations and legal deposit. The remote files are dated 1900 and were produced by French Pathé. Among the most prominent are an excerpt from La Bohème, Puccini, and stand-up comedy from other foreign producers like the peel of cucumber, de Pinedo.

The oldest Spanish work is a fragment of the Breton teacher Dolores, played by Florencio Constantino.

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