The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) reported that, in collaboration with the Latin Grammy Foundationwill work in favor of conserving, preserving and disseminating unpublished musical pieces from the 19th century that have been “forgotten” in temples or old buildings in the country; This is the project ‘The past that sounds and resonates’, which will receive support through a grant from the Latin Grammy Foundation and will be in charge of the Music Seminar in New Spain and Independent Mexico (Musicat), whose headquarters are at the Institute of Aesthetic Research (IIE) of the UNAM.
In detail, the project consists of recording scores of nineteenth-century musical pieces not heard, at least not by someone who lives in this century, according to the UNAM in a statement.
In this sense, the Latin Grammy Foundation was looking for projects to promote economically and, thus, they received a proposal from the highest house of studies, in such a way that the organization considered that the initiative had potential for the preservation and dissemination of a artistic legacy “at risk of being lost”.
Similarly, It is pointed out that not only will the recording of the musical pieces be sought, but it is expected that the work will be available for dissemination through an online portalwhich in this case will be the one led by Musicat, so that it can be heard by anyone who wants it.
In the first instance, Musicat proposed to the Grammy Foundation to give them three videos and ten audios of five genres from the 19th century: praised, creed, cardenche song, waltz, crews and office of the dead, among which is a piece entitled “El vals del Parián”, written by a young man named Alejandro Gómez to commemorate the demolition, in 1843, of the El Parián market , in Mexico City.
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