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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...

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.

Este libro ofrece al lector una mirada de las décadas 1950 a 1970 en Chile, desde la perspectiva de la producción, consumo y circulación de música popular. Retomando el enfoque del volumen anterior (1890-1950), en este volumen se presentan las inquietudes y necesidades sociales del perí­odo a través de las expresiones de una música moderna, masiva y mediatizada. El protagonismo que adquieren los jóvenes y las mujeres, las transformaciones en las costumbres y las prácticas sociales, los nuevos ritmos y lenguajes musicales, y las formas innovadoras de baile, son algunas de las...

Jimi Hendrix was one of the twentieth century's greatest musical innovators. He single-handedly revolutionized the electric guitar-before then little more than an amplified acoustic guitar-inventing a whole new musical vocabulary for this instrument that is still in use today. Jimi Hendrix: The Man, the Music, the Memorabilia recounts his life & career, drawing extensively on previously unpublished material to present a unique verbal & visual portrait of this legendary guitar genius. Through a combination of exclusive memorabilia, contemporary newspaper articles, rare photographs, &...