El mar de los deseos

ÍNDICE: - Introducción. - Primera Parte. Canciones. - Segunda Parte. Estudio. Comienzos. Relación de canciones ordenadas por ámbito y dificultad. Clasificación por temas. - Bibliografía.

Monografías musicales presenta los ensayos realizados por Th. W. Adorno sobre tres compositores: Wagner, Mahler y Berg. Dividida en tres partes bien estructuradas –Ensayo sobre Wagner. Mahler. Una fisionomía musical, y Berg. El maestro de la transición mínima–, la presente edición recoge no sólo los textos de las primeras ediciones que fueron publicadas de algunos de estos materiales, sino que a éstos añade nuevos escritos fruto de años de reflexión y estudio.

The legend states that “Nothing is truth, everything is permitted” were the last words of Hassan-I Sabbah, the mythical leader of the ancient and obscure sector of the Murderers. Writer William Burroughs became obsessed with this phrase, claiming it was a magic password. In the beginning of the 20th century, Burroughs continued viewing Sabbah as one of his mentors. His scandalous life and radical work had become a symbol for rebels and anarchists, eventually becoming one of the most ideological precursors in the punk movement. Then, the world surrendered before Nirvana, considering them...

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...