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Artists' book celebrating music copyists, who are employed by the music industry to produce neat copies from a composer or arranger's manuscript, and thus are responsible for interpreting the composer's intentions. Among the Matanzas artists highlighted are Sigfrido Anastasio Tortoló...

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Main Author: Hernández Benítez, Leticia (Author)
Other Authors: Milián, Adrián (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:Spanish
Published: Matanzas, Cuba : Ediciones Vigía, septiembre del 2016
Series:Colección Andante
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Summary:Artists' book celebrating music copyists, who are employed by the music industry to produce neat copies from a composer or arranger's manuscript, and thus are responsible for interpreting the composer's intentions. Among the Matanzas artists highlighted are Sigfrido Anastasio Tortoló Carrillo; Sergio Pichardo López; Rafael Somavilla; Betsy C. de la Victoria Macón; y Marta Valdés. Examples of their work are also included: "La perla: canción;" "La mulata rosa;" "Guarda esta flor;" "Danzón 71;" "Contigo en la distancia;" "Noche cubana;" and "A mis viejos."
Item Description:Issued in yellow paper over cardboard covers; large photocopied drawing, hand-colored, affixed to front cover, featuring a medieval monk at his desk; photocopied illustrated endpapers; pages decorated with a compact disc, photocopied drawings of musical instruments, and additional hand-colored photocopied cut-outs, including a large feather quill and inkpot, an illuminated capital from a medieval manuscript, conga drums, and photocopy of a photograph of Cuban composer and singer Marta Valdés; spine has hemp twine
"Esta edición ... consta de doscientos ejemplares manufacturados e iluminados a mano por las Ediciones Vigía en su Colección Andante. Para esta publicación fueron utilizados cartulinas y papeles de diferentes texturas y gramajes, cada libro contiene un CD venido de las fonotecas de miembros de nuestro equipo de trabajo, ritmos y géneros diversos como las copias manuscritas que aparecen en este libro. Edición, Agustina Ponce. Diseño y dibujos, Adrián Milián."--Colophon
"Septiembre del 2016"--Colophon
Physical Description:73 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, music, portraits ; 28 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (page 73)
ISBN:9592402302
9789592402300