La Mà de Guido
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La mà de Guido is a Catalan
music publishing house in Barcelona Spain founded in 1986 by the composer and musicologist Llorenç Balsach (b.1953).
The name La Mà de Guido comes from the Catalan translation of the Guidonian hand
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The primary notability of La Mà de Guido is in the publishing of music scores and editions for Catalan composers, living and dead. The music publishing house also owns a recording label, again primarily reviving the works of Catalan composers, but also recordings by Catalan musicians of other Iberian music, and archive historical recordings. The label also distributes the Ars Harmonica label.
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...
music publishing house in Barcelona Spain founded in 1986 by the composer and musicologist Llorenç Balsach (b.1953).
The name La Mà de Guido comes from the Catalan translation of the Guidonian hand
Guidonian hand
In Medieval music, the Guidonian hand was a mnemonic device used to assist singers in learning to sight-sing. Some form of the device may have been used by Guido of Arezzo, a medieval music theorist who wrote a number of treatises, including one instructing singers in sightreading...
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The primary notability of La Mà de Guido is in the publishing of music scores and editions for Catalan composers, living and dead. The music publishing house also owns a recording label, again primarily reviving the works of Catalan composers, but also recordings by Catalan musicians of other Iberian music, and archive historical recordings. The label also distributes the Ars Harmonica label.
Published composers
- Josep Fàbrega (?-1791)
- Felip Pedrell (1841–1922)
- Enric Morera (1865–1942)
- Joaquim Cassadó (1867–1926)
- Josep Barberà (1877–1947)
- Antoni Massana (1890–1966)
- Agustí Borgunyó (1894–1967)
- Eduard ToldràEduard ToldràEduard Toldrà Soler was a Spanish Catalan conductor and composer.Toldrà played an important role in the Culture of Barcelona. In 1944 he founded the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra at the Palau de la Música Catalana, where his deputy in 1957 was his friend Ricardo Lamote de Grignon...
(1895–1962) - Gaspar CassadóGaspar CassadóGaspar Cassadó i Moreu was a Spanish cellist and composer of the early 20th century. He was born in Barcelona to a church musician father and began taking cello lessons at age seven. When he was nine, he played in a recital where Pablo Casals was in the audience; Casals immediately offered to...
(1897–1966) - Manuel Blancafort (1897–1987)
- Lamote de Grignon (1899–1962)
- Joaquim Homs (1906–2003)
- J.M. Mestres Quadreny (b.1929)
- Josep Soler (b.1935)
- Llorenç Balsach (b.1953)
- Jesús Rodriguez-Picó (b.1953)
Recording artists
- Victoria MusicaeVictoria MusicaeVictoria Musicae is a Spanish early music group based in Valencia, Spain.The group was founded in 1992, and since 1993 has been led by Josep Ramón Gil-Tàrrega. The group has worked with other Valencian ensembles Capella de Ministrers in early music and the instrumental ensemble Estil Concertant in...
. Dir. Josep R. Gil Tàrrega. - Musica Reservata de Barcelona. Dir. including Bruno TurnerBruno TurnerBruno Turner is a British musicologist, choral conductor, broadcaster, publisher and businessman.-Life:The son of a motor spares magnate, Turner went on holiday to Sweden shortly after the Second World War...
, Peter Phillips (conductor)Peter Phillips (conductor)Peter Phillips was born in Southampton on 15 Oct 1953. After winning a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford in 1972, Phillips was offered the opportunity to study Renaissance music with the influential musicologists David Wulstan and Denis Arnold...
. - Harmonia del Parnàs. Dir. Marian Rosa Montagut.
- Maria Teresa Garrigosa. soprano.