Música urbana, juventud y resistencia

This text presents beginning violin technique and basic music-reading fundamentals, with an emphasis on the use of melodies and classical pieces to teach each new concept. the 28 lessons include basic technique and reading skills, scales in the keys of A, D, G, and C as well as bowing techniques such as dynamic contrast, slurs, accents, and staccato bowing. There are 47 melodies presented including works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, Mozart and other classical composers. the companion CD features all of the exercises and pieces recorded with solo violin and piano accompaniment.•

Londres. Corre el año 1967 y Pauline deambula sin rumbo por la mágica metrópoli contracultural de los sesenta. Tiene 21 años, trabaja en una agencia de secretarias y no suele desmelenarse, pero un inesperado encuentro cambiará radicalmente su vida: una tarde recibe la llamada de un sujeto que necesita transcribir las letras de un disco. Es Frank Zappa. Ese feliz e improbable encargo vendrá seguido por vagos flirteos, extrañas confidencias y una propuesta desconcertante: trasladarse a Los Ángeles e ingresar en la variopinta cuadrilla que allí convive y desvaría con el cantante....

From its origins in Ragtime and Blues, the passionate life and main themes of the greatest singers and musicians, this book discusses the history of one of America's greatest inventions, with chapters ranging from its historical beginnings to jazz in films.

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...