You Can Teach Yourself Piano/Spanish Edition

You Can Teach Yourself Piano is a revolutionary concept in piano instruction. No other method comes close to matching this book's scope in teaching not only basic music reading skills, but also the essential technique and theory for playing in all contemporary keyboard styles. Central to the philosophy of the You Can Teach Yourself series, this beginner's book is written to give the serious adult student a solid foundation while studying on their own without the advantage of having a private teacher; it will show you all you need to know to get an authoritative start on the instrument,...

Copiously illustrated, this comprehensive examination delves into the history of rock, not only through the music, but also through social movements and historic circumstances, and constantly analyzes the evolution of vinyl cover design. Filled with the most iconic covers, this reference also offers information and trivia on their creators—the designers, illustrators, and photographers. Profusamente ilustrado, esta investigación comprensiva recorre la historia del rock, no solo a través de la música, sino también de los movimientos sociales o las circunstancias históricas, y en cada...

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...

En el presente volumen continuamos la edición de las sonatas para violín y bajo de Cayetano Brunetti. Se publica, en concreto, la primera parte de la colección de sonatas que Brunetti hizo expresamente para uso del Príncipe de Asturias (futuro Carlos IV). Aunque la colección consistía en veinticuatro sonatas, lamentablemente se han perdido dos de ellas (la VI y la XXIII), llegando hasta nosotros veintidós. Se han conservado tanto partituras autógrafas de Brunetti (doce) como partituras copiadas por Francisco Mencía (veintidós), un copista que trabajó para el cuarto del príncipe....

Starlust es un extraordinario ensayo que se adentra por primera vez en los pensamientos y deseos —desgarradores, explícitamente eróticos o profundamente tristes y desesperados— de algunos fans de cantantes y grupos de pop de la década de los ochenta como David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Boy George, The Police, Barry Manilow o Nick Heyward. Tras cuatro años de investigación, trescientas cincuenta horas de entrevistas y cuatrocientos testimonios, el resultado es un alucinante crisol de una imaginación desbordante que a veces supera en intensidad a las canciones que con tanta pasión...