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Monday, February 17, 2020

Ida y vuelta

The process of "Ida y Vuelta" between Spanish and French music is interesting. We use the phrase for a round-trip ticket (going and coming back) and by extension for flamenco palos that return to Spain after being developed in Latin American. In France, there is an interest in Spanish music during the romantic period, and then continuing to the age of Debussy and Ravel. These composers are then influential on the Spanish music of Falla and others. Mompou heard Fauré and then found his own voice as Catalan composer. I don't know much about this, but it is surely significant for the question of what Lorca's own musical culture is.  

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