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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...

Isabel Villagar has provided us with a book to guide us in teaching children how to sing. Her book is based on scientific principles and focuses on the mental and emotional stages that children and teens go through while learning to sing. She dispels the notions that singing is reserved to those select few that are born with a gift. Isabel invites readers of all ages to uncover their own vocal talent.

- An approach based on self-learning and recognition of rhythmic and melodic patterns - Original tunes rather than abstract sight-reading exercises - 237 carefully graded pieces in a range of musical styles - Nine sections ranging from open strings to extensions and slurs - Each section concludes with a set of duets and accompanied pieces for practice of ensemble sight-reading - Tunes progress to all key signatures up to four sharps and three flats - Preliminary towards grade 4

La metodología de Zoltán Kodály supuso para la educación musical en Hungría una manera de salir del tradicional, pesado y poco motivador aprendizaje de la música. El método se basa en una serie de principios que hacen de su didáctica un «juego» con el que aprender el difícil y monótono solfeo. Para la comprensión de esta técnica, el lector debe saber que el método utiliza un sistema pentatónico, aporta una nueva forma de leer el pentagrama con el «sistema relativo» y propone un sistema de canto mediante signos manuales. Utilizando canciones populares, este método enseña el ...