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Professor Snow's auspicious debut in musicology came in 1958 as the author of the chapter on Old Roman chant in Willi Apel's Gregorian Chant. He completed his doctorate at the University of Illinois in 1968, and his major faculty appointments have been at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Illinois, and University of Texas. His publications range from the medieval era to the baroque, most of them dealing with sacred music in Spain, Portugal, the Hispanic New World, and eastern Europe. Encomium Musicae will present over 40 articles by scholars from seven different countries, most of...

El presente libro es fruto del trabajo interdisciplinar de un grupo de investigadores y ofrece un análisis de la creación y el hecho musical y sonoro contemporáneo en el contexto hispanohablante, observado como un proceso cultural íntimamente vinculado con las emergentes y cambiantes corrientes de pensamiento estético, los movimientos sociopolíticos e identitarios y los avances científicos y tecnológicos. Está dividido en tres bloques de contenidos complementarios entre sí: "Discursos estéticos", "Nuevos aspectos de la creación musical contemporánea" e "Identidades, ideología y...

Exploring the details of a popular instrument, this study offers a complete history of the piano along with the various theories and observations. Explorando los detalles de un instrumento popular, este estudio ofrece una historia completa del piano además de varias teorías y observaciones.

Based primarily on previously unpublished documents, the studies assembled here in this first selection by Frank D'Accone set the background for the musical efflorescence that occurred in Florence in the later 15th century and for the emergence in the early 16th century of a new Florentine school of composers. He traces the origins and development of musical chapels at the Cathedral and Baptistery, and the growth of musical establishments at several other churches such as the Santissima Annunziata, Santa Trinita and San Lorenzo.