La sonrisa oculta de la música

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...

Primeras biografías de Beethoven. Vol. I Notas Biográficas Ignaz von Seyfried Franz Wegeler-Ferdinand Ries Traducción de Roberto L. Pajares Alonso Esta es la primera traducción al español de dos relatos con el mismo título, escritos por personas que conocieron muy de cerca a Beethoven. Hablan del hombre y del artista más que del mito, aportando cartas, anécdotas e información de primera mano. El traductor ha añadido notas aclaratorias al final del libro, así como una exhaustiva introducción. Las fuentes mencionadas pueden consultarse en historiadelamusica.net Otros libros de...

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...

Para los que añoran otros tiempos, para los que se deleitan con las voces que saben seguir vivas y para los que quieren asomarse por primera vez al universo del tango.