VIAJE A TRAVÉS DE LA HISTORIA DE LA DANZA

No se puede negar que la documentación histórica ha supuesto una inflexión en la forma en que los intérpretes se enfrentan actualmente al hecho interpretativo. Eso es evidente no sólo para los músicos que ejecutan obras con instrumentos originales, los de la época en que fueron compuestas, sino, incluso, para aquellos que tratan de comprender las intenciones originales del compositor antes de aportar una impronta personal. Tal necesidad es la que impulsa una investigación que se afana en recuperar sonoridades y expresiones olvidadas mediante la contextualización de prácticas...

All seven volumes of Mel Bay's original, internationally acclaimed Modern Guitar Method series are included in this single, huge master compilation. This edition also includes additional outstanding plectrum guitar solo arrangements not found in the original volumes. As Mr. Bay perceived the need for a guitar method that would effectively teach beginning guitarists to read music, this method is intentionally written in standard notation only. Although fingerstyle technique, this book is tailored specifically for the plectrum-style player, beginner through advanced levels.

Piano students of Latin American heritage often do not relate to the folk tunes that most methods use because the majority of those melodies do not flow with the rhythm of the Spanish language. This method is based on melodies original to the Mexican culture. These children's songs flow more naturally with the language, and in accord with the Kodály method of music education, give a better foundation for teaching basic musical elements in a Spanish language culture. Coupled with constant work on sight-reading, this new method is a valuable tool for native Spanish speakers in learning to play ...

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...