Memorias de Antonio Morales "Junior," mucho antes de dejarme

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...

This text presents beginning violin technique and basic music-reading fundamentals, with an emphasis on the use of melodies and classical pieces to teach each new concept. the 28 lessons include basic technique and reading skills, scales in the keys of A, D, G, and C as well as bowing techniques such as dynamic contrast, slurs, accents, and staccato bowing. There are 47 melodies presented including works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, Mozart and other classical composers. the companion CD features all of the exercises and pieces recorded with solo violin and piano accompaniment.•

En Cumbiana, relatos de un mundo perdido, Carlos Vives y Guillermo Barreto nos llevan a descubrir el origen de la cumbia a través de un viaje mágico que entreteje la memoria del artistas y los apuntes del historiador. Este libro es el portal a la reconstrucción de una alucinante nación anfibia que unió su destino en América con la cultura europea y con la cultura africana para dejar un legado musical que ha marcado la historia.

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.