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The last week, on tuesday 28th, Abvlensis VIII edition was presented in Ávila. This year subtittle is Plus Ultra, with it, some relations are proposed between the explorer´s eagerness on the colonialist expeditions on XVI century, wich open the perspective and the possibilities of the known word, boosting some of our modern sciences as antropology; and, on the other side, the Victoria´s Research Center investigation spirit trying to track down the infleucne of our abulense.
Some weeks ago we had the jury´s decision about the Musicology Award 2018, this year, divided in two categories: Musicology Award "Lothar Siemens", dedicated to reward unpublished studies about the hispanic musical heritage; and the Musicology Award for doctoral thesis presented along 2018.
In 2017 was released the last álbum with Tomás Luis de Victoria´s musics untill now, Nordic Voices Sing Victoria. From Tomás Luis de Victoria Research Center, we would like to dedicate to this recording by Nordic Vocies the space and broadcast that we think deserves.
Abvlensis International Music Festival has been awarded a new recognition. On this occasion European Year of Cultural Heritage seal, granted by the European Union through the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports. This award comes when the motto of the European year is "Our heritage: where the past meets the future".
After studying the applications received by the committee designated for this purpose, in accordance with the rules of the call, held the previous selection to eliminate those candidates who do not meet the required conditions, aggregated scores established in the scale in the rest of the cases, and evaluated the different sections, the evaluation commission estimated to make public the list of applicants for Abvlensis 2017 Scholarship, sorted in order of the total score obtained, which can be downloaded from the attachment.
The Blog of the National Library of Spain has published an interesting article signed by Alfonso de Vicente about the edition Missae, magnificat, motecta, psalmi et alia of 1600 by Tomás Luis de Victoria.
Abvlensis International Music Festival sixth edition has just been presented to media, under the title Thousand and a half voices.
The appointment with Abvlensis will be held from 25th. to 30th. August 2017 in Ávila. This sixth edition is committed to an interesting program with artists like Chanticleer, Ingenium Ensemble or La Danserye, who will play at so relevant places as the Auditorio Municipal de San Francisco and the church of St. Thomas Royal Monastery.
The Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica of Bologna, in Italy, has made available to the public the complete digitization of the Missarum Libri Duo [...] by Tomás Luis de Victoria, dedicated to Felipe II and published in 1583 in the studio of Dominici Basae in Rome.
