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The Guitar Lessons of Julio Sagreras are among the most universally used collections of guitar music and represent a milestone in guitar didactic literature.The original six lesson books, along with the book Advanced Technique, were an immediate success on their introduction and remain so today. This edition brings together under one cover Lesson Books Four, Five, and Six as well as Sagreras's Advanced Technique volume. the studies in each book are carefully fingered and graded. They are charming, melodious and extremely effective in the classroom. They are also an ideal introduction to...

Although influenced by the impressionism of Debussy, Dukas, and Ravel, Manuel de Falla (1876–1946) remained distinctively Spanish, with roots that drew upon both Andalusian folk music and his country's classical traditions. With these two popular ballets, El Amor Brujo (Love, the Magician) and El Sombrero de Tres Picos (The Three-Cornered Hat), he brought the world's attention to the music of Spain. In El Amor Brujo, a gypsy lass is haunted by the ghost of a former swain until her new lover devises a plan to entice the spirit away. Each of the ballet's scenes evokes a different mood that is ...

Completa antología de la música del período comprendido entre la Plena Edad Media y mediados del siglo XV, con setenta y una partituras, en su mayoría inéditas, que van del canto gregoriano a Guillaume de Machaut.

El libro está compuesto esencialmente por dos escritos en los que Adorno expone el cambio de función experimentado en la música hacia la segunda mitad del siglo XX, señalando para ello las modificaciones internas que los movimientos musicales en cuanto tales sufren al quedar subordinados a la producción comercializada de masas, e indicando cómo ciertos desplazamientos antropológicos en la sociedad estandarizada penetran hasta la estructura de la audición musical. Se trata de mostrar cómo la violencia de la totalidad social se ejerce incluso en ámbitos aparentemente separados como el ...