La crisis de la modernidad

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

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...

Edición castellana revisada del New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980), libro de referencia considerado imprescindible a nivel internacional y en cuya elaboración han colaborado más de 2.000 especialistas. El diccionario tiene más de 10.000 entradas referidas a compositores, términos, instrumentos, instituciones, intérpretes, obras musicales, etc. Contiene también ilustraciones y ejemplos musicales.

The product of a 14 year research project, this book contains over 350 studies to thoroughly train the right hand of classical guitarists in the use of all five fingers - adding the little finger to the present four finger technique. These studies build a five-finger technique in the playing of chords, arpeggios, tremolos and harmonics, beginning with the thumb and one-finger combinations and increasing in complexity to the thumb and four fingers. the studies are played over easy, yet interesting, left hand progressions up and down the fingerboard. Postlewate demonstrates how to develop your...