El pensamiento sinfónico en México

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.

Although influenced by the impressionism of Debussy, Dukas, and Ravel, Manuel de Falla (1876–1946) remained distinctively Spanish, with roots that drew upon both Andalusian folk music and his country's classical traditions. With these two popular ballets, El Amor Brujo (Love, the Magician) and El Sombrero de Tres Picos (The Three-Cornered Hat), he brought the world's attention to the music of Spain. In El Amor Brujo, a gypsy lass is haunted by the ghost of a former swain until her new lover devises a plan to entice the spirit away. Each of the ballet's scenes evokes a different mood that is ...

No existe tradición más mexicana que la de los corridos, las heróicas baladas que celebran a los de abajo -- a los fugitivos y pistoleros. Al igual que las baladas de Robin Hood o de Jesse James, los corridos han sido para los pobres una manera de enaltecer a sus héroes. Los corridos siguen, pero sus héroes han cambiado: ahora son célebres los narcotraficantes. Elijah Wald cuenta la fascinante historia de esta nueva versión de una vieja tradición: la de los narcocorridos. Traza el desarrollo de los corridos desde sus orígenes en el indómito Oeste hasta su más reciente encarnación...

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...