DEVELOPMENT OF FOLK-SONG IN PORTUGAL AND THE BASQUE COUNTRY (THE)

GALLOP (Rodney).— THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOLK-SONG IN PORTUGAL AND THE BASQUE COUNTRY. (1935). 14x21,5 cm. B.

“When the Council of the Musical Association were kind enought to invite me to address you this afternoon on the subject of Basque and Portuguese folk-music, I was at first in some doubt how best to present my material. (...) It occurend to me, therefore, that it might be better to approach the subject from some angle of general interest to musicians and to discuss the light which the folk-songs of these two peoples throw on the general (and I must confess somewhat contentious) question of the origin and development of folk-songs (...)”.— retirado da primeira página do texto.

Curioso trabalho ilustrado com notação musical.

Dedicatória do autor a Fernando Pires de Lima, na capa da brochura da frente. Manchas de acidez, próprias do papel nas páginas do texto.