Antología de la música del siglo XX

Vladimir Jankélévitch argues that composer Franz Liszt was a leading champion of musical modernity who knew how to express the new aesthetic change of direction in 19th-century European music better than anyone, save Frédéric Chopin. This new style was the opposite of the abstract universality of the symphony and the totalitarianism of the Viennese conservatory. With the reinforcement of national and even provincial rights, the so-called savagery of rhapsody finally turned its back to solemn music, thus beginning the revolution of humility. Liszt gave voice to the land, much as Victor...

Drawing on the work of leading experts from around the globe, Musicology and Sister Disciplines provides the definitive, authoritative statement on the scope of musicology today and its relationship to other fields of academic endeavour, including philosophy and aesthetics, literary studies, art history, mathematics, computer science, historiography, and sociology. These groundbreaking papers represent the outcome of a major musicological conference in 1997, and include contributions from the philosopher Bernard Williams and world-famous mathematician Roger Penrose.

En este libro te cuento de que se trata este género con una amplia selección de bandas, artistas y obras de todo el mundo y Argentina, los últimos tiempos.

"La vida me ha regalado grandes momentos con muchos de los músicos más importantes de nuestro rock", dice el trompetista conocido como Gillespi. Varios de esos encuentros memorables fueron parte de sus programas de radio, otros se desarrollaron en las casas de los entrevistados, "tomando mate o vino, yendo y viniendo, con terceras personas ahí conversando. Naturalmente". Salsipuedes (Historias de rock argentino) reúne una selección envidiable de esta serie de conversaciones con Luis Alberto Spinetta, Charly García, Fito Páez, Gustavo Cerati, Roberto Pettinato, David Lebón y Litto...