JOHNNY V MUSIC

I have a question to Nemesis posting.?

I have been searching for Francisco Buencamino Sr. piano sheet music for “Larawan”. I have tried searching everywhere. I even asked a relative to search for me in La Salle library and National Libarary.
He found only one for me called “Harana”. But what I really want is the “Larawan”. Did you have any luck finding this particular sheet music? I am willing to trade or pay you if you can provide me a copy.

Sheer serendipity that I happened to spot your Q here, in a return for quite another question’s search, also dealing with Philippine composers… )

Copyright law governing the copies of Buencamino’s ‘Mayon’ and ‘Ang Larawan’ the Philippine University Library Services provided me with forbid any copying of any kind, so I cannot help you out directly in that way. However, the Philippine Govt and the Universities have an ongoing collaborative service making the Philippine cultural heritage available electronically, and in their collection they show 19 pieces by Buencamino available, among them Mayon. If I were you, I would ask them whether they can point you to a source for Ang Larawan, because one of their participating university libraries is where my copy ultimately came from too.

You can find them here (I have set the page to the Buencamino scores they currently list in their e-holdings):

http://www.elib.gov.ph/results.php?pagenum=1

All the best,

Ps. If you need more help, you can always find me in the ‘Classical’ section…

Estudio Brillante (Francisco Tárrega)_21, Classical Guitar Study