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

Este segundo volumen, de una serie de dos partes, contiene un libro, audio y video en línea del reconocido guitarrista de flamenco Juan Martin. Se proporcionan más de 21 solos, graduados progresivamente en los tres grados superiores, de 6 a 8, para adaptarse a los jugadores en etapas intermedias y más avanzadas, que ya tienen alguna experiencia en el instrumento y las técnicas del flamenco. La música para todos estos está escrita con precisión en notación y ficha de flamenco (cifra) y (a excepción de los dos solos finales) también se incluye en el audio en línea complementario....

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...

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...

A fundamental guide to understanding rap in all its complexities by one of the most relevant writers of the 20th century and his lucid college friend. This provocative and entertaining essay collection attempts to scrutinize the genre through the lens of sociology, economics, philosophy, and law by means of a back-and-forth exchange between the authors. A fundamental guide to understanding rap in all its complexities by one of the most relevant writers of the 20th century and his lucid college friend. This provocative and entertaining essay collection attempts to scrutinize the genre through...