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Sobre las Olas composed by Juventino Rosas

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

José Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas (25 January 1868 – 9 July 1894) was a Mexican composer, violinist, and band leader.
Rosas’s best known work is “Sobre las Olas” or “Over the Waves” waltz. It was first published by Rosas in 1884 when he was in New Orleans, Louisiana with the popular Mexican band at the World [...]

Juventino Rosas.
Juventino Rosas. Credit Public domain
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The conquest of Mexico

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Let’s promote this week the contribution of El Bibliomata, a flickr user that shares illustrations and photographs of the collection from the Library of the Faculty of Law and Labor, University of Seville.
While we create real digital content a good start is to digitalised old works. The start, some old litographies of the conquest of [...]

Hernan Cortes armour.
Hernan Cortes armour. Credit El Bibliomata
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