Isabel Parra. Libro de mis canciones

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...

Este libro surge como una consecuencia directa de la presencia del jazz en Colombia y de su desarrollo en diferentes ámbitos musicales del país. Enrique Mendoza y Jorge Sepúlveda recopilaron en él cincuenta partituras que componen un amplio repertorio grabado por jazzistas colombianos, en el que se puede apreciar de manera única la trayectoria y el desarrollo de este género en el país desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX hasta hoy. Las partituras que aquí se reproducen dan cuenta de los diferentes acercamientos y de las vinculaciones estéticas y estilísticas que ha tenido el músico...

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...

Perfect for anyone who wants to be a DJ, this book illustrates how being a DJ is not only a job but an art form. Perfecto para todos aquellos que quieren ser DJ, este libro ilustra como pinchar discos no es sólo un oficio sino un arte.