Cien tangos fundamentales

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...

Based primarily on previously unpublished documents, the studies assembled here in this first selection by Frank D'Accone set the background for the musical efflorescence that occurred in Florence in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.

"No cabe duda de que las obras orquestales, si bien es cierto no tienen la profundidad e intimidad de los cuartetos clasicos de cuerda, en cambio poseen un basto horizonte de sonoridades que nos llevan en arrebatos emocionales de esa placidez de que solo supo Bach o a ese delirio que entrega en el campo del dolor Tchaikowsky al final de su Sinfonia Patetica. Las familias de instrumentos hacen alarde de sus virtudes y, en paleta colorista, nos presentan los mas bellos timbres de las maderas, metales y cuerdas percusivas." -Dr. Adalberto Garcia de Mendoza"

El texto está orientado a explicar por qué Lola Flores buscó en la muerte, su más importante inspiración. Es un libro donde se alude al hecho de "morir" más de 300 veces, tanto de manera verbalizada como sustantiva. La muerte de la gran artista jerezana, hizo parte de la motivación, para la publicación de esta obra.