La música contemporánea a partir de 1945

Exploring the details of a popular instrument, this study offers a complete history of the piano along with the various theories and observations. Explorando los detalles de un instrumento popular, este estudio ofrece una historia completa del piano además de varias teorías y observaciones.

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,...

Based primarily on previously unpublished documents, the studies assembled here in this first selection by Frank D'Accone set the background for the musical efflorescence that occurred in Florence in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

Como Coya, con el que coincide durante años en el círculo de la duquesa de Alba, Ferran Sors ofrece una visión que, centrada en España, abarca el conjunto de las convulsiones revolucionarias y bélicas de Occidente que, a caballo entre los siglos XVIII y XIX, llevan del antiguo régimen al orden político y social de la edad contemporánea. Sors, cuya fama actual es la de una figura crucial en la elevación de la guitarra a instrumento apto para la gran música, tuvo en s.u tiempo una proyección internacional propiciada por los exilios a que le llevaron sus compromisos con los hechos...