Invitación a la Etnomusicología

"El clima de los 80 fue siempre tenso, no tanto por sed de destrucción como por impaciencia. Había que abandonar lo que nos sostenía; los padres, los primeros amigos, el colegio, la disciplina... En el medio la merca, el ácido o la marihuana se encargaban de disparar nuevos horizontes. Solamente vos podías intuir qué camino tomar y dónde terminar con tu vida. Luca luchaba por quitarse un peso de encima, como quien crea para sí una montura para cruzar todas las montañas del arte pero de pronto le duele y la montura ya no sirve". ¿Es este un nuevo libro sobre la leyenda de Luca Prodan ...

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...

This investigation is about a distinguished figure in the Portuguese Musical context of the twentieth century, which so far have not attracted the interest she deserves, although mentioned in dictionaries, encyclopedias as well as some newspaper articles published throughout her career or posthumously. Germaine Francine Benoit Van Gool, was born on July 30, of 1894 in Périgueux, France; daughter of Paul Benoit, French, and, Victorine Marie Van Gool, belgian. She arrived in Portugal in 1906 (at the age of 12). She acquired Portuguese nationality at age of 35. Therefore, we can say that...

This classic supplement book for the saxophone has helped instrumentalists everywhere for over 30 years, and now it's available in a Spanish language translation. All the necessary skills needed to bring the player up from beginner to 'artist' are clearly stated by master saxophonist Larry Teal.