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.•

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...

El texto está orientado a explicar por qué Lola Flores buscó en la muerte, su más importante inspiración. Es un libro donde se alude al hecho de "morir" más de 300 veces, tanto de manera verbalizada como sustantiva. La muerte de la gran artista jerezana, hizo parte de la motivación, para la publicación de esta obra.

Este libro, y el disco que lo acompaña, descubren, región por región, el magnífico repertorio de baladas y canciones que han marcado los aires de ópera de Bellini y de Verdi, los cantos de la Semana Santa de Sicilia o Cerdeña, el famoso trallallero de los estibadores genoveses o las experiencias renovadoras de los últimos tiempos.