Practical Applications

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...

These easy-to-read, progressive exercises by Joanne Martin develop a student's reading skills one stage at a time, with many repetitions at each stage. I Can Read Music is designed as a first note-reading book for students of string instruments who have learned to play using an aural approach such as the Suzuki Method®, or for traditionally taught students who need extra note reading practice. Its presentation of new ideas is clear enough that it can be used daily at home by quite young children and their parents, with the teacher checking progress every week or two.

Esta historia de la musica medieval, centrada en el Occidente cristiano, estudia los principales pasos de su evolucion: el canto de las liturgias latinas y sus formas derivadas; la cancion monodica profana y vernacula; los origenes de la polifonia; el ars antiqua; la musica francesa e italiana en el siglo XIV; la musica inglesa desde la conquista normanda hasta la muerte de Dunstable; y, por ultimo, el siglo XV, con especial atencion a Francia y los Paises Bajos. La aparicion de la armonia como factor estructural y el final de la preponderancia del cantus firmus y las formes fixes cierran el...

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.