El Piano

Compilación de entrevistas y artículos sobre músicos cubanos y personalidades vinculadas a la música. La selección está dotada de originalidad y avalada por musicólogos y periodistas de la cultura (Leonardo Padura, Radamés Giro, Helio Orovio, Leonardo Acosta, etc.).

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...

You Can Teach Yourself Piano is a revolutionary concept in piano instruction. No other method comes close to matching this book's scope in teaching not only basic music reading skills, but also the essential technique and theory for playing in all contemporary keyboard styles. Central to the philosophy of the You Can Teach Yourself series, this beginner's book is written to give the serious adult student a solid foundation while studying on their own without the advantage of having a private teacher; it will show you all you need to know to get an authoritative start on the instrument,...

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....