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The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, presented yesterday at the Casa de America in Madrid, the book of Carlos Blanco Fadol, 'Ethnic Musical Instruments of the World', who has edited the Autonomous Community of Murcia.
The event was attended by the program director of the Casa de America, Julia Escobar, the book's author, Carlos Blanco Fadol, the mayor of Caravaca, Domingo Aranda, and the Uruguayan writer Carmen Posadas.
Ujaldón Henry said, "This encyclopedia of instruments will be a benchmark in its field, while intensifying the role of the museum has become the place of reservation and protection of instruments from around the world."
In the presentation the governments of Indonesia and the Dominican Republic represented by their ambassadors, made a donation of musical instruments to the Museum of Ethnic Music Barranda, the head teacher and author of the book, Carlos Blanco, restore and recover.
Attendees were handed a percussion instrument called anclun with which he played 'The Ode to Joy "by Beethoven.
Also, the documentary shows the journey that made White Fadol the Amazon to return and teach a tribe to build two wind instruments, musical instruments that had disappeared.
'Ethnic Musical Instruments of the World'
White Photography's book, lists and describes 320 musical instruments from 94 countries on five continents of the world and classifies the instruments into four categories: Idiophones, those whose sound is produced by vibration of material that is built; Aerophones, those whose sound comes from the vibration of air column; Membranophones, where sound is produced by the action or vibration of a membrane extension, and Stringed, in which sound is produced by the vibration of strings stretched when operated.
Enrique Ujaldón said that "from the Region of Murcia support any research and safeguarding of heritage," noting that "Carlos Blanco uses music as an anthropological inter-ethnic communication with those contacts in your journey through the world.
Researches and compiles a wide range of musical instruments. "
This work has made a bilingual edition and 1,000 copies have been published which are available in museum shops and bookstores, both regional and national.
The book has also been distributed to all the embassies of the countries with instruments classified
Photo 1: The Mayor of Caravaca, Domingo Aranda, the general direct of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, the program director at Casa de America, Julia Escobar, the book's author, Carlos Blanco Fadol, and the Uruguayan writer Carmen Posadas
Source: CARM
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