La sonrisa oculta de la música

The year was 1966. While the young people lived during the most epic time in London, a group caused a sensation: Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Rick Wright and Nick Mason played blues rock like nobody else. After a few months they recorded their first singles: "Arnold Layne" / "Candy And A Currant Bun" and "See Emily Play" / "Scarecrow" and then, their first album: The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. The prodigious career of Pink Floyd had begun.

Sinesis biograficas y homenaje a los musicos que dieron grandez a Cuba. El lenguaje poetico del autor comunica una sensibilidad nueva y transcendente a las vidas de estos hacedores. El autor es poeta de importante obra publicada y con gran reconocimiento.

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...

Durante las décadas de 1950 y 1960 la juventud occidental construyó un universo con leyes, códigos y valores propios alrededor de una música nueva e intensa: el rock. La voluntad de diferenciarse del mundo adulto, oponerse a sus compromisos y censuras definieron los intereses centrales de esta nueva cultura. La rebelión fue su modo de funcionamiento y expresión principales. Sin embargo, la utopía –importante parte constitutiva de esta nueva cultura- se volvió decepción cuando quedó en evidencia la ingenuidad de la revuelta con la apropiación que el mercado hizo de ella, al...