Many of Jordi Savall's recordings of older regional repertories involve a good deal of imaginative reconstruction. But Bailar Cantando is based on an actual musical manuscript, the Codex Trujillo . The codex was compiled in Peru in the last quarter of the 18th century by the Bishop of Trujillo, Balthasar Jaime Martínez Compañon, who may have notated the music himself. An accompanying volume of drawings shows that the musical scores leave much out: many instruments of Indian origin were used, for instance, but Martínez ...
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Many of Jordi Savall's recordings of older regional repertories involve a good deal of imaginative reconstruction. But Bailar Cantando is based on an actual musical manuscript, the Codex Trujillo . The codex was compiled in Peru in the last quarter of the 18th century by the Bishop of Trujillo, Balthasar Jaime Martínez Compañon, who may have notated the music himself. An accompanying volume of drawings shows that the musical scores leave much out: many instruments of Indian origin were used, for instance, but Martínez Compañon includes only a few, and Savall restores a few more. Nevertheless, enough was transmitted to make possible the realization of some extraordinary music. The texts alone (given in the original mixture of languages, modern Spanish, Catalan, Italian, German, French, and English) are worth the price of admission alone: the languages represented include Spanish, Quechua, Aymara, the extinct Mochica and Culle, and bits of African languages, with riotous texts alternating among...
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