Fernando Sor: Seguidillas Book 2. Contains sixteen splendid songs in Spanish for two or three voices with guitar or piano. A Tecla publication.

As well as the introduction, also included is an English prose translation of all the Spanish texts.

See the beginning of the first song.

Sor's songs in Spanish in the seguidillas boleras form are a very special contribution to Spanish musical culture. They were composed within that great age of creative art, music, dance and popular literature which occurred in Spain at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Utterly Spanish in their words, their wit, their intensely alive musical idiom and their indigenous dance form the bolero, they shine for us still today.

In 1976 I published twelve of them under the title of Sor's Seguidillas, which have been widely performed since then. Those twelve were all for solo voice, some with guitar accompaniment and some with piano.

Now here is a further collection, this time for two or three voices with guitar or piano, all of them now published for the first time in our own age, and some of them indeed now newly discovered and identified. There are 52 pages of music, with an introduction and notes.

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The songs are as follows:
FOR THREE VOICES:
With guitar:

Mucha tierra he corrido
Cuando de ti me aparto
Qué costoso es el logro
Sin duda que tus ojos

With piano:

Mucha tierra he corrido
Cuando de ti me aparto
Qué costoso es el logro
Sin duda que tus ojos
Cuantas naves se han visto

FOR TWO VOICES:
With guitar:

Los canónigos, madre

With piano:

Los canónigos, madre
No tocarán campanas
Puede una buena moza
Me pregunta un amigo
Lo que no quieras darme
Me preguntó mi amigo (second setting)

Facsimile of "Me preguntó mi amigo", in Sor’s autograph.

At the Darwin Guitar Festival 1999 we gave what was probably the first modern performance of the first four songs. It turned out that they are very fine, some of them real Three Tenors stuff. Since then they have been performed at the New York Festival of Song and elsewhere.
These songs will interest singers looking for new repertory, especially if they are looking for new Hispanic material. If you know singers who might like them, do please tell them.

I have made the perhaps unusual decision to make the whole of the long introduction available here. It contains many details about the provenance of the songs, their form, and so on. Here then is the whole of the introduction to Fernando Sor- Seguidillas Book 2.

MAY 2002: I have added notes about
1) whether the Seguidillas and Seguidillas Book 2 are to be sung by men or by women, and
2) whether the Seguidillas and Seguidillas Book 2 are best regarded as dance music or not.
"This is a fine publication: attractive but unknown music is presented with all the information that one needs" (Early Music Review, February 2000).
"L'invenzione melodica è ricca di fascino" ("the melodic invention is rich in fascination") (Guitart, April/June 2000).

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