Item Detail
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Balada, Leonardo
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Leonardo Balada home page
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Website
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2016
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English, Spanish
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Balada, Leonardo. “Leonardo Balada.” http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/balada/index.htm (accessed 27 July 2018).
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To promote the work of composer Leonardo Balada.
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Composition list includes information regarding performances, reviews, and publishing. No inclusion criteria provided for the works list. Discography includes compact disc recordings. The bibliography is “selected,” assumingly by Balada, but no further criteria are provided. Website is available in English and Spanish.
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The homepage contains the site menu, a few descriptive quotes about Baladas, and contact information for the composer and his publisher. Balada’s biography appears first. Following is his works list, divided by ensemble: orchestra without soloist, orchestra with soloists, opera, chorus, band and wind ensemble, voice and piano, voice and chamber ensemble, chamber music, solo instruments. There is an additional list of compositions with folk-ethnic connotations; these are already listed in previous categories. There is no clear method of organization within these categories (somewhat chronological at times). Each composition entry includes facts such as the title, date, instrumentation duration, premier, recording information, and reviews. There is no clear organization in the discography. Entries include the title of the album, titles of pieces, duration, performers, record label and number, format, and/or other comments. Most of the album titles link to an image of their front and back covers. Next is a selected list of groups or individuals who have performed his works. These are divided into orchestras, soloists, directors, and ensembles. Names are not in alphabetical order. Balada also includes pages for reviews of his compositions, a selected bibliography, an essay about his “stylistic adventures,” and sound bytes available to download.
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The entire site (minus the performers lists) has an English translation.
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Entries are not organized alphabetically or chronologically. The format of the works lists is difficult to read (too much information close together without exceptional differences in type or color to differentiate items).
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Joanna Armstong
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Internet
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