Chopin

Contains 142 pieces by the masters of piano literature, from the second half of the 17th century to the present day. For easy-to-intermediate players.

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...

Punk: la muerte joven es un libro que nació a contrapelo. Fue escrito por un argentino pelilargo de treinta y pico exiliado en Londres en los años 70 que, en realidad, quería escribir una novela sobre el exilio de un argentino en Londres en los 70. Como era de esperar, la idea no prosperó, y en cambio sus editores españoles le pidieron un libro sobre el punk, una movida que por esos días disparaba en Inglaterra sus primeros salivazos corrosivos de contracultura. Tenía nada más que treinta días para escribirlo. Con su misión a cuestas, Juan Carlos Kreimer salió a la calle a...

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,...