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Seven songs from Costa Rica
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In July of 1973, through the benificence of Professor Juan de Dios Trejos, music
teacher from Cartago, Costa Rica, I had the pleasure of meeting doña Leticia de
Céspedes. This tiny woman was in her nineties, with neatly cropped snow white hair
and blue eyes. She received me in her humble home in Tres Ríos, a town located
between San José and Cartago. Sra. de Céspedes had learned to read and transcribe
music. She taught piano and guitar. She too, was interested in music which was orally
transmitted, and most graciously bequeathed to me musical transcriptions which she
had made from songs she had heard her grandparents sing when she was a child. She
assured me that she learned them orally, and to my knowledge, they have never been
recorded before now.