Chanter Comme Les Stars

Esta obra, que solo exige conocimientos elementales de terminologia musical y de armonia, ha sido calificada por criticos y expertos como el mejor compendio del desarrollo de la musica en el mundo occidental desde la antigua Grecia hasta nuestros dias. Esta nueva edicion --ampliada y revisada-- contiene importantes actualizaciones como el tratamiento mas pormenorizado de la musica del siglo XX. Dividida en dos volumenes, se completa con notas analiticas separadas del texto principal y « recuadros en los que compositores, musicos y observadores del pasado comentan con sus propias palabras la...

La música es un complemento indispensable de las imágenes, y, a menudo, se olvida. Este libro reivindica el papel de la música en el cine y destaca las principales aportaciones del lenguaje musical en el séptimo arte.

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...

The product of a 14 year research project, this book contains over 350 studies to thoroughly train the right hand of classical guitarists in the use of all five fingers - adding the little finger to the present four finger technique. These studies build a five-finger technique in the playing of chords, arpeggios, tremolos and harmonics, beginning with the thumb and one-finger combinations and increasing in complexity to the thumb and four fingers. the studies are played over easy, yet interesting, left hand progressions up and down the fingerboard. Postlewate demonstrates how to develop your...