You Can Teach Yourself Piano/Spanish Edition

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...

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...

In 2008, Dr. Eben Alexander's brain was severely damaged by a devastating case of bacterial meningitis, and he fell into a weeklong coma. During those 7 days in coma, he was plunged into the deepest realms of consciousness and came to understand profound truths about the universe we inhabit.