Fermín Pardo Pardo (born 20 April 1945)Catàleg d'autoritats de la Biblioteca Valenciana Nicolau primitiu
/ref>Gran enciclopedia de la Comunidad Valenciana, vol. 12, 2005, Prensa Valenciana, València, p. 13 is a Spanish

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researcher, and is one of the most notable scholars of traditional music in the

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. Pardo was born in Hortunas, Requena. In 1974 he joined a research group under the coordination of Salvador Seguí Pérez who collected folk songs throughout the

Province of Valencia Valencia ( , ), officially València (), is a provinces of Spain, province of Spain, in the central part of the autonomous Valencian Community. Of the province's 2.7 million people (2024), almost one-third live in the capital, Valencia, whic ...

.Seguí, Salvador; Oller, María Teresa; López, José luis; Pardo, Fermín; Garrido, Sebastián. Cancionero musical de la provincia de Valencia. Valencia: Institución Alfonso el Magnánimo. Diputación de Valencia, 1980. . In 1976, with the patronage of Institució Alfons el Magnànim, the collection was completed with records from the whole

. Throughout his life, he has collected about 11,700 musical pieces recorded in more than 300

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. Since 2008, his collection is kept in Requena's Archive.

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