Cohen, Judith R.2012-07-122012-07-122001José Alberto Sardinha, Tradições musicais da Estremadura, preâmbulo de Fernando Lopes-Graça, transcrição musical e notas musicográficas de Vítor Reino, coordenação editorial de José Moças, Vila Verde, Tradisom, 2000,638 pp., 3CD'shttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/1441This monumental, hefty volume is the work of someone who passionately loves musical tradition, and believes in documenting and disseminating it; it is hard to believe that the author’s full - time “official” profession has nothing to do with music or ethnogr aphy. The focus on Estremadura is an unusual and welcome one: while there is always more work to be done on Trás - os - Montes, the Beiras and other regions of mainland Portugal, little attention has been paid to Estremadura. Clearly, the author wanted to get “everything” in, and the result is a multi - faceted picture of musical traditions in this province, a book to return to often, to read, to look at, and CD’s to listen to for pleasure and for study.engreview