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Music of Early California:
Sheet Music Transcriptions
Original transcriptions and arrangements by Vykki Mende Gray of primarily secular pieces from the 18th and 19th century Spanish-speaking Californians, many from the Edison wax cylinders recorded by Charles Fletcher Lummis. Lead and harmony lines are included for most pieces, with chord accompaniment indicated. Bound in comb bindings so they’ll stay open, with plastic covers for improved durability, these transcriptions finally make this music accessible and available for performers and scholars.
Now available: Volume 10: 2008 Supplement – 62 pages
Since the enhanced digital versions of Charles Lummis’ Edison wax cylinders are still not available, there is nothing further that I can transcribe from that source at this time.
So this volume has moved to an alternate focus. A large number of the pieces are dance dance tunes from the Joseph María García Manuscript, a Mexican dance master’s fake book from 1772, now in the collection of the Southwest Museum. In addition, this volume includes the remaining pieces from the song folio, Old Spanish Songs: As sung by Sra. Da. María Jimeno de Arata, compiled and arranged by Antoni van der Voort and published in 1928.
Volumes 1 – 10 – bound together:
All of the pages from Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 in one bound set with an index of all ten years.
For a list of the pieces included in each volume please go to moremusic.loscalifornios.com.
Volume 10 Contents:
Adelfa
La alegre primavera
El babau
El baño miselaneo
La barrabas
El bienteadoro
The black joak
Las bodas reales
El carrillón dunquer
La castaña
El chip
La colaza
Contra clarín
La contradanza 164
La contradanza 165
El diamantte
Don Simón
El drapo
La dusmetina
La estopa
El floreo
El fricase
El ganget
La guastala
Isac maget
La jalea
La jittanilla
La jota de Jimeno de Arata
Los lamentos
Libertad
La llamaditta
La más garbosa
La media rosa
La merlequina
Mi querida
El minueto de los caballeros
Los monos
La morena
La del moro (o del turco)
La negrita
La paloma
El palomar
El paspie anglois
Pascadorcita mía
La pitanza
Prince George
La quadrilla
El quadrillo
El reclutor
El rel
El salto del rossibon
Serení
El sol empieza a nacer
La suerte
La tracaziera
La universidad de Oxford
La vadine
La vez primera
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