El Arte Jondo. Identidad y un sentimiento

El estudio de las formas musicales de este libro de texto va a descubrir las tendencias, las finalidades, as como las razones de ser de determinadas estructuras musicales. No fue ocasional, espordico, o contingente, el nacimiento de la sonata, el desarrollo de la misma a travs de la msica instrumental de cmara, y ms tarde de orquesta. Tampoco tuvo este carcter la elaboracin de la Fuga o del Motete, del Oratorio o de la Misa. Cada una de las formas de la msica a travs de la historia, ha tenido su razn de ser en problemas de sensibilidad artstica, ligada ntimamente a las ms grandes cuestiones...

Based primarily on previously unpublished documents, the studies assembled here in this first selection by Frank D'Accone set the background for the musical efflorescence that occurred in Florence in the later 15th century and for the emergence in the early 16th century of a new Florentine school of composers. He traces the origins and development of musical chapels at the Cathedral and Baptistery, and the growth of musical establishments at several other churches such as the Santissima Annunziata, Santa Trinita and San Lorenzo.

Practica guia desde la Colonia hasta el presente siglo de la evolucion musical en Norteamerica. Pasan la etapa de puritanismo y la proscripcion del baile, la influencia del coral religioso, el nacionalismo, el exotismo, la aparicion y aportacion del jazz y la musica negra, la Gebrauchsmusik, los purismos, el mesianismo, el colectivismo y el individualismo.

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.