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Cayetano (o Gaetano) Brunetti es uno de los compositores más importantes de la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII en España. Su obra comprende abundante música de cámara (sonatas para violín solo, dúos, tríos, cuartetos, quintetos, sextetos) y música sinfónica. Trabajó para las más importantes casas nobiliarias españolas (los duques de Osuna y los duques de Alba). Compuso sobre todo para el Príncipe de Asturias, futuro Carlos IV, siendo su maestro de violín, músico de su cámara y, finalmente, director de la orquesta de la Real Cámara. La sinfonía en fa mayor L 312 fue compuesta...

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...

A dedicated vihuela chord book, in English and Spanish, with over 300 chords for the vihuela. Chords are presented in easy to read and understand chord diagrams. Exact fingerings are shown for each diagram. Chords shown include major, minor, 7, min7, maj7, b5, sus4, aug, dim, 6, m6, 6/9, m7b5, 11, 13 and many more. Mel Bay's Vihuela Chord Book is one of the most comprehensive on the market, perfect for the aspiring mariachi.

Presents the lyrics of one hundred of the Mexican singer-songwriter's songs in commemoration of his one hundredth birthday.