Los instrumentos musicales en el mundo

Explores the history of hebrew music and the connection between music and the Bible, instruments, and mystical poetry, with a CD that contains 17 mystical songs.

Musical language has been developed through the use and needs of composers to express their auditory ideas in visual form. In this book, Josep Jofre combines a historical perspective with a detailed and clear explanation of the foundations of modern musical notation. This book provides useful guidelines for gradual learning geared toward music students, lovers and enthusiasts. It provides teachers with invaluable teaching tips for making musical learning a more engaging experience."

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 principal novedad de esta Historia de la Música es que cada uno de sus 6 libros se centra en un tema concreto. De este modo, al individualizar cada tema, se puede tener una visión comparada a través del tiempo, perspectiva que se pierde cuando se tratan todos los temas a la vez en una misma época. Cada libro o bloque se divide en 9 épocas. Este segundo bloque, Géneros musicales, estudia los siguientes aspectos: • Función religiosa o profana de los principales géneros que se cultivan en cada época. • Características propias de cada género musical: estructura, textura,...