Empeños del amor

Miembro fundador de los Guns N' Roses, Loaded y Velvet Revolver, Duff McKagan comparte en este libro la historia de su ascenso a la fama y la fortuna, y sus luchas con el alcoholismo y la adicción a las drogas, así como su accidente con quemaduras, y su ulterior transformación. En 1984, a la edad de veinte años, Duff McKagan dejó su Seattle natal en busca del mundo de la música, escapando principalmente de una sobredosis de heroína que afectó a su grupo más cercano de amigos en la escena punk local. En Los Ángeles, al cabo de unas pocas semanas y viviendo en su automóvil,...

La musica esta presente en nuestra vida desde el mismo instante en que nacemos (incluso antes). Con independencia de que nos dediquemos o no a ella de un modo profesional, influye de forma determinante en nuestro estado de animo, moldea de manera imperceptible nuestros sentimientos y emociones. Es por ello esencial conocer sus conceptos basicos, las reglas que la rigen. A ese proposito sirve este libro de Federico Abad, autor del exitoso Do, Re, Que. Un manual sencillo y llano pero altamente valioso para cualquiera, menor o adulto, que quiera adentrarse con paso firme en el fascinante...

BERMUDO alone of the many Spanish theorists and composers of the 16th century seems to have written anything specifically for New World use. All the more fitting is it, then, to have completed this monograph in a part of the Spanish Indies that was stirring every Andalusian's imagination during the days when he was first sending his books across the Atlantic. In every way his was a remarkable personality. He was the first to compose and publish any organ music in Spain. As if the publication of such music in staff-notation were not enough he also published the first Spanish keyboard piece in...

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.