Acuarelas Musicales

Texto completo de las conferencias semanales transmitidas por el comentarista musicólogo Dr. Adalberto García de Mendoza por la Radio difusora Metropolitana XELA en su programa "Horizontes Musicales". "No cabe duda que al hablar de Chopin llega uno a la región de los pensamientos más íntimos, de las sugerencias espirituales más profundas en que se encuentran todos los colores y matices emocionales, las ansias de liberación de una patria tristemente sufrida y lejanamente martirizada. En cada nota, en cada frase de la obra de Chopin brota un quejido y también una rebeldía. Es la...

This musical primer touches on the basics of pitch, rhythm, keys, scales, chords, and more, building the reader’s knowledge chapter by chapter. The book includes a visual index of musical symbols at the beginning that serves as a useful reference. Readers of all stripes—whether those learning how to play an instrument or those refreshing existing musical capabilities, whether singers in choirs or individuals who merely wish to be able to follow scores while listening—will gain practical knowledge as well as a deeper understanding of how music is composed. Esta guía musical aborda los...

Quiero Tocar La Guitarra, (I want to play the guitar) by Victor M. Barba is one of the best books for guitar. Finally there is an Easy to understand book to learn how to play the basics on the guitar. the only book that includes music notes, music note names, tablature, guitar graphics and fingering, plus a CD, all in one book. with this book you will learn how to read music and learn music theory; you have 20 progressive guitar studies, many original songs, and Latin and Mexican rhythms such as Ballad, Cumbia, Norteño, Corrido, Rock and Tex-Mex. If you ever wanted to learn some of these...

Recognized as the most significant composer from New Spain in the early eighteenth century, Manuel de Sumaya (ca. 1678–1755) oversaw musical activity at Mexico City Cathedral during a time of stylistic change. Sumaya, who was locally born and ordained as a priest, wrote music that mixes the counterpoint and rhythmic vigor of seventeenth-century Hispanic music with more modern Italianate gestures prescient of international taste in the eighteenth century. This edition of all thirty-four villancicos with music by Sumaya conserved in the Estrada Collection at Mexico City Cathedral reveals the...

La metodología de Zoltán Kodály supuso para la educación musical en Hungría una manera de salir del tradicional, pesado y poco motivador aprendizaje de la música. El método se basa en una serie de principios que hacen de su didáctica un «juego» con el que aprender el difícil y monótono solfeo. Para la comprensión de esta técnica, el lector debe saber que el método utiliza un sistema pentatónico, aporta una nueva forma de leer el pentagrama con el «sistema relativo» y propone un sistema de canto mediante signos manuales. Utilizando canciones populares, este método enseña el ...