Vida de Richard Strauss

La música del compositor mexicano Manuel María Ponce (1882 – 1948) constituye una de las voces más reconocidas y significativas de la música americana del siglo XX. Autor de un catálogo amplio de géneros y estilos, su música transita desde sus famosos arreglos de canciones mexicanas hasta algunas de las obras de cámara y sinfónicas más importantes del repertorio del pasado siglo. Ampliamente conocido por sus páginas para guitarra –que fueron alentadas por Andrés Segovia-, por su canción Estrellita –que Jascha Heifetz convirtió en una encore de rigueur para los violinistas...

The “Bolero” has been part of the sentimental education, not only to inhabitants of Cuba (where the music evolved), or Mexicans (where it became a national art form), but to countless persons around the world, in a study that features “Bésame mucho” and hundreds of additional songs.

This approach to woodwind instruments is centered on effectiveness, helping each musician maximize the time they invest in study in order to reach the technical level where they can easily express themselves through the instrument. The primary goal of this approach is to encourage reflection about what a musician wants from their instrument, what their aspirations are, and the best way to achieve them.

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...