María Teresa Oller (1920 – 2 September 2018) was a Spanish composer and

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of the

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.«Catàleg d'autoritats de la Biblioteca del Museu Valencia d'Etnologia» Since the 1950s, she carried out extensive fieldwork to collect traditional Valencian music, highlight it, and make it known in numerous publications. Oller was a member of the

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Biography

María Teresa Oller Benlloch was born in

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in 1920. From a very young age, she developed an interest in popular music. She was attracted to the music she heard on the street, mainly the party music performed by the

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and the tabalet at city festivities as well as the street songs like the ones sung by the street sweeper, the carpenter, or those sung by children. Likewise, during her stays with her family in

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, she became aware of popular rural music.''Entrevista inédita realizada a Mª Teresa Oller por Fermín Pardo y Joan Seguí'', July 2015.

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. She studied at the and obtained the "Extraordinary Prize" in the disciplines of piano and composition.

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was her teacher in composition, choir and

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, and

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, and she became a favorite disciple. She followed Palau's advice and furthered her music studies with Professor Ernet Jarnack, with the Walker Wagenheim Orchestra and with the choral specialist, Rafael Benedito. In 1954, she obtained a grant from the to perfect her composition studies. Highlights of her early works include the research carried out in the

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region where Oller visited all the towns while collecting songs such as the

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of El Palomar or the dances of

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. She also did extensive work in the Ribera Alta

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documenting the music of

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. The collection of dances of the of

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is also from that time. She researched and transcribed polyphonies from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries in the archives of the

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and in the archives of the

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. From 1974, she began working exclusively as a transcriber with a team of compilers coordinated by musicologist , which also included Fermín Pardo, Sebastián Garrido, Ricardo Pitarch, and José Luis López. The

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financed this group through a grant made to the musicologist Salvador Seguí to travel to the different

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of the

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to collect songs and melodies. Oller was in charge of touring the villages of the

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, and . In 1976, the , of which the (Folk Music Section of the Valencian Institute of Ethnology) was a part, decided to help the group to expand their research with an interest in making a traditional musical songbook of Castelló and Valencia and thus complete the task developed in recent years by Salvador Seguí with the publication of the (Songbook of the province of Alicante). As a culmination of all the work of this period, in 1980, the Institució Alfons el Magnànim published the (Musical Songbook of the province of Valencia) in which Oller collaborated. During this period, the team collected materials, texts and (songs) tunes from many towns in the

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, some localities in the

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, the Serrania del Túria, and the

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. In 1988, Oller and Pardo teamed up again to present to the a

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ic project dedicated to the singing of the ''mayos'' in the Valencian comarques. The institution granted them financial aid that made it possible to increase the collection of texts and melodies that Oller transcribed and analyzed.Institució Valenciana d'Estudis i Investigació. ''Memoria de l'activitat investigadora (1980-1994)''. Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana; Diputació de València, 1995. Oller's research projects on Valencian musical traditions, such as the , have been an important source of recovery and documentation of Valencian musical culture. Oller participated in numerous publications related to (Valencian style singing) as well as in congresses and conferences. She was a contributor to the newspaper '' Levante'' where she published various research papers and reviews of music criticism of concerts and operas held in Valencia. Oller died on September 2, 2018, at the age of 97.

Awards and honours

In 1969, Oller was awarded the

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Prize for the work (Voices of blue and grey), for mixed choir, where she set to music three poems by Maria Ibars i Ibars: "Mar dormida", "Plany", and "Cançoneta del Montgó", published in 1974.

Selected works

* Armiñana, Rosa; Oller, María Teresa. ''Voces de un pueblo'' : Bechí. Valencia: Institut d'Estudis Valencians, 1983. * Oller, María Teresa; Palau, Manuel. ''Madrigales y canciones polifónicas'' : autores anónimos de los siglos XVI y XVII: Archivo de la S. I. M. Catedral de. alencia Instituto Valenciano de Musicología, 1958. * Oller, María Teresa. ''Las canciones de trilla del arroz en la valenciana Ribera del Júcar.'' Zaragoza: Institución "Fernando el Católico", 1969. * Oller, María Teresa. ''La música coral valenciana.'' Madrid: Sociedad Española de Acústica, an. 1972 * Oller, María Teresa; Calatayud, Vicent Ramon. ''Contar y cantar'' : recoge de narraciones y canciones populares valencianas. Valencia: Lo Rat Penado, D.L. 1994. * Oller, María Teresa. ''Panorámica de la canço i la dansa tradicional : conferencia pronunciada amb motiu de la clausura del curs academic 1996-97. Madrid: Lo Rat Penat, 1998. * Oller, María Teresa; Martí, Enric. ''Panorámica de la música y danza tradicional valenciana.''. alencia Universidad Politécnica, D.L. 1998. * Oller, María Teresa. ''Cançons narratives valencianes.'' Valencia: Lo Rat Penat, 2000. * Bartual, Rosa; Oller, María Teresa; Madrid, Jesús A. ''L'albà de l'Alcora.'' Valencia: Lo Rat Penat, 2003. * Oller, María Teresa. ''La navidad en Valencia.'' Valencia: Aula de Cultura Tradicional Valenciana, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, D.L. 2004. * Oller, María Teresa. ''Canciones tradicionales valencianas infantiles y de cuna.'' Valencia: Aula de Cultura Tradicional Valenciana, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia,

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* Oller, María Teresa. ''La canción campesina en el folclore musical valenciano.'' Valencia: Aula de Cultura Tradicional Valenciana, Universidad Politécnica de València,

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* Oller, María Teresa; Bartual, Rosa. ''Tot menos apurarse'' : canciones humóristicas valencianes. alencia Aula de Cultura Tradicional Valenciana, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, D.L. 2007.. * Oller, María Teresa; Martí, Enric. ''Panorámica de la música y danza tradicional valenciana.''. alencia Aula Enric Martí de Cultura Tradicional Valenciana, Universidad Politécnica de Valrncia, D.L. 2007. * Oller, María Teresa. Los "gozos" en la tradición musical del pueblo valenciano. Valencia: Aula Enric Martí de Cultura Tradicional Valenciana, Universitat Politècnica de València, D.L. 2009. * Oller, María Teresa. ''La Pasión de Jesús de Nazareth en la canción tradicional valenciana.'' Valencia: Aula Enric Martí de Cultura Tradicional Valenciana, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia,

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* Oller, María Teresa. Canciones tradicionales valencianas, pascueras. Valencia: Aula Enric Martí de Cultura Tradicional Valenciana, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 011 * Oller, María Teresa. Frases, sentències i dites valencianes. Valencia: Lo Rat Penat, D.L. 2011. * Pardo, Fermín; Oller, María Teresa. ''Los mayos en el Campo de Requena-Utiel y otras comarcas valencianas.'' equena Centro de Estudios Requenenses, D.L. 1997. * Seguí, Salvador; Oller, María Teresa; Pardo, Fermín; Jesús-María, José A. ''Danzas de Titaguas.'' Valencia: Sección Folclore Musical. Instituto de Etnología Valenciana. Institución Alfons el Magnánimo, 1979 (Cuadernos de música folclórica valenciana. Segunda época; 2). * Seguí, Salvador; Oller, María Teresa; López, José Luis; Pardo, Fermín; Garrido, Sebastián. ''Cancionero musical de la provincia de Valencia.'' Valencia: Institución Alfonso el Magnánimo, 1980.

References

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