Apuntes para un baile inconcluso. Entrevista a músicos cubanos y otros diretes

El libro que nos entrega Juan Pablo González prolonga hacia un pasado más reciente sus anteriores estudios sobre historia de la música popular chilena. Si bien persiste un “modo de hacer” común, se enfatizan aquí los enfoques más específicamente musicológicos del material, con oportunas inflexiones hacia el análisis intrínseco de los lenguajes. La proximidad temporal le permite interactuar con los protagonistas de esos procesos e incluir su propia experiencia con ellos, en la certeza de que lo social atraviesa la memoria privada.

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...

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...

Una completa ilustración de los géneros, estilos y combinaciones instrumentales del periodo clásico, de la sinfonía al cuarteto, pasando por el concierto, la sonata o la ópera, a través de obras de los compositores que, como Haydn, Mozart o Beethoven, dominaron el panorama musical de la época.