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"No cabe duda de que las obras orquestales, si bien es cierto no tienen la profundidad e intimidad de los cuartetos clasicos de cuerda, en cambio poseen un basto horizonte de sonoridades que nos llevan en arrebatos emocionales de esa placidez de que solo supo Bach o a ese delirio que entrega en el campo del dolor Tchaikowsky al final de su Sinfonia Patetica. Las familias de instrumentos hacen alarde de sus virtudes y, en paleta colorista, nos presentan los mas bellos timbres de las maderas, metales y cuerdas percusivas." -Dr. Adalberto Garcia de Mendoza"

Although the music of Spain is diverse, profound, colorful and deserving of recognition, a collection of nineteenth century Spanish songs has never been available to singers in the United States. Until now, Spain has been neglected in the study of music history. Collections of zarzuela arias have been published, but art song composed prior to Turina, Granados, Obradors, de Falla, and Rodrigo have remained in the archives of Spanish libraries. This fascinating anthology, a collection of 23 songs composed by a variety of Spanish composers born in the nineteenth century, provides an exciting...

El presente libro propone al lector un absorbente grand tour por los grandes centros musicales de la Europa del siglo XVIII, de Nápoles a Londres, pasando por Berlín, Viena, Praga y San Petersburgo, con una incursión en el Nuevo Mundo colonial. Con el telón de fondo de una Europa dividida entre un espacio católico y otro protestante, el autor muestra cómo se desarrollaron y mezclaron los estilos «galante» y «culto». Además de considerar en profundidad la obra de Mozart, Haydn y el primer Beethoven, amplía el foco de su análisis para poner de relieve las contribuciones de figuras...

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...