Villancicos y cantadas al Santísimo Vol. 2

Prog rock is like a musical sponge, capable of absorbing, incorporating, and distilling an endless diversity of influences, ranging from psychedelic rock, blues, jazz, pop, electronic music, classical, and more in its work to topple stylistic barriers with new and daring sounds. This book serves as a rigorous guide to the genre.

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...

Tomando como hilo conductor el concepto de identidad nacional, La canción artística latinoamericana, tiene como objetivo dilucidar las transformaciones sonoras que han tomado lugar en el mundo de la canción artística latinoamericana desde su aparición a finales del siglo XIX hasta nuestros días. Por su doble naturaleza verbal-musical, la canción ha contribuido de manera evidente a la construcción de un sonido y una estética nacionales, convirtiéndose en espejo en el que se reflejan de manera fiel los procesos de construcción de identidad nacional latinoamericana. La autora analiza...