Diffusion of News

This book discusses post-truth not merely as a Western issue, but as a problematic political and cultural condition with global ramifications. By locating the roots of the phenomenon in the trust crisis suffered by liberal democracy and its institutions, the book argues that post-truth serves as a space for ideological conflicts and geopolitical power struggles that are reshaping the world order.

For the artist the consummation of a dream, of his eagerness, of his creativity is his ultimate goal, the fruit of his sleeplessness, the concretion of a work of art. Just as a painter gives the last brushstroke, or a novelist closes his winding journey with the final word, the musician leaves the recording studio with the feeling of having left something more than between the soundproof walls and the intangible depth of the register his life, much more than his soul, a vast and subtle accumulation of sensations, experiences, dreams and desires … and although later life continues its unfailing and complex course, something has happened in that trance, a primordial change, inescapable and irreversible both for the creator as for who their recipients are, be they readers, observers or listeners.

The heterogeneous output of Santiago de Murcia, one of the key figures in the Baroque guitar repertory, includes a number of transcriptions from the Op. 5 of Arcangelo Corelli, the famous collection of "sonatas with violin and string bass or harpsichord" published in Rome in 1700. The diffusion of Corelli’s works in Spain, and in particular in Madrid, suggests how highly the Italian style was valued at the court of Philip V, where Santiago taught Queen Maria Luisa of Savoy between 1704 and 1706. This gave rise to the idea of investigating the relationship between the Spanish and Italian styles in de Murcia’s guitar music.