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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...

History of Guatemalan music, with particular reference to the marimba, the Banda Sinfónica Marcial, and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional.

Choral Scores is an anthology of music exemplifying distinctive choral repertoire by the most noteworthy composers throughout the history of Western music. A companion volume to Denis Shrock's Choral Repertoire (Oxford 2009), it presents works of salient importance to the development of choral music in Western culture, representing the music of the composers, eras, and movements discussed most prominently in that volume. Including 132 compositions by 124 different composers, each presented unabridged and in full score, and spanning the entirety of Western music history, from the medieval era...

Avalado por largos años de experiencia como intérprete de violonchelo y docente, Mantel responde a dos de las preguntas más habituales entre los estudiantes de música: ¿cómo lograr una interpretación que sea convincente? y ¿cómo mejorar el nivel adquirido? Partiendo de la base de que no existen secretos para la interpretación musical sino el camino de la lectura atenta de la partitura, el autor aborda paso a paso cada uno de los parámetros del sonido y los distintos aspectos de la expresión, además de cuestiones como la presentación en público o elementos psicológicos, que...