Estampas Musicales

When a tragic plane crash took the life of singer and actress Jenni Rivera on December 9, 2012, the world lost an artist whose talents transcended borders and even languages. One of this generation's most beloved singers, Rivera achieved 15 platinum and 5 double platinum records while selling more than 15 million albums total. Popular in both the United States and Mexico, Rivera played to sold-out crowds across North America, and in 2009, she was nominated for a record 11 Billboard Awards. Jenni Rivera: La Diva de la Banda is a photographic tribute to this beloved artist, featuring unique...

(Instrumental Solo). Commissioned by Leigh Howard Stevens with a Consortium Commissioning Grant from NEA.

Invitación a la etnomusicología recoge una selección de textos etnomusicológicos escritos por el autor durante los últimos veinte años y unidos por una línea de pensamiento que, partiendo posiciones analítico-semiológicas, se aproxima a teorías posmodernas, críticas y hermeneúticas que en la década de los noventa han venido dominando una buena parte del debate intelectual sobre la música. La contribución del presente volumen a la reflexión musical en lengua castellana reside en el intento de mostrar que los esfuerzos realizados por (etno)musicólogos y folcloristas para...

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...