Música, mujeres y educación

(Instrumental Solo). Commissioned by Leigh Howard Stevens with a Consortium Commissioning Grant from NEA.

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...

(Boosey & Hawkes Voice). These exciting collections feature new transcriptions, previously unpublished material, and some selections never before published separately from complete vocal scores. The High Voice edition features 29 songs, and the Medium/Low Voice edition has 34. Contents: Afterthought * from ARIAS AND BARCAROLLES: (Little Smary * Greeting) * La Bonne Cuisine * FOUR RECIPES: (Plum Pudding * Queues de Boeuf (Ox-Tails) * Tavouk Gueunksis * Civet a Toute Vitesse (Rabbit at Top Speed)) * I Hate Music * A CYCLE OF FIVE KID SONGS: (I. My Name Is Barbara * II. Jupiter Has Seven Moons * ...

No hace tanto tiempo, la música era un murmullo ocasional y apenas perceptible en un entorno hecho de silencio. Ahora es tan ubicua como el aire que respiramos. ¿Cómo diablos ocurrió ese milagro? Una historia de la música es el relato de nuestra necesidad de inventar, conectar, rebelarnos y entretenernos. El texto de Goodall, bello, claro y persuasivo, es tanto un himno al esfuerzo humano como un mapa revolucionario de nuestro viaje musical. Una historia de la música es también una mini serie de gran éxito de la BBC.