Michael Aaron Piano Course (Curso Para Piano), Bk 1: Spanish, English Language Edition

El fado es mucho más que música. Es el canto de un país, una historia, de un alma que titubea entre la tristeza y la alegría. Recorre Lisboa desde el Alfama hasta Bairro Alto, la mirada dirigida al Tajo, hacia el mar, para inspirar sus sueños una vez en tierra firme. El fado es un mundo donde la geografía se confunde con el ensueño portugués, hecho de viajes oceánicos, insulares y de tierras lejanas, a ambos lados del Atlántico. De Lisboa a las islas del Cabo Verde, pasando por Bahía, el lector descubrirá la esencia del fado, canto de un país, de una historia y de un alma, capaz...

El análisis general del conflicto colombiano le permitirá al lector desprevenido comprender la naturaleza y el contenido de este libro que recoge una serie de canciones, poemas, fotografías y mapas sobre la guerra de guerrillas en los Llanos Orientales de Colombia, durante la década de los 50 y 60. Muchas de estas canciones y poemas apenas están dejando de ser voces clandestinas para invadir la conciencia de ciudadanos interesados en conocer las raíces del conflicto colombiano. El Estado no solo redujo al olvido muchos de estos cantos sino que, con el arbitrio de pensar que la violencia ...

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...

On October 15, 1967, bass player Steve Boone took the Ed Sullivan Show stage for the final time, with his band The Lovin' Spoonful. Since forming in a Greenwich Village hotel in early 1965, Boone and his bandmates had released an astounding nine Top 20 singles, the first seven of which hit the Billboard Top 10, including the iconic Boone co-writes "Summer in the City" and "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice." Little did Steve Boone know that the path of his life and career would soon take a turn for the bizarre, one that would eventually find him looking at the world through the bars of a jail...