Glosario de instrumentos musicales

Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group that sparked the emergence of the culture called punk.

Based primarily on previously unpublished documents, the studies assembled here in this first selection by Frank D'Accone set the background for the musical efflorescence that occurred in Florence in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.

Choral Scores is an anthology of music exemplifying distinctive choral repertoire by the most noteworthy composers throughout the history of Western music. A companion volume to Denis Shrock's Choral Repertoire (Oxford 2009), it presents works of salient importance to the development of choral music in Western culture, representing the music of the composers, eras, and movements discussed most prominently in that volume. Including 132 compositions by 124 different composers, each presented unabridged and in full score, and spanning the entirety of Western music history, from the medieval era...

“De los tonos musicales, los que más complacen al oído son aquellos producidos por el órgano de la voz. Y, a continuación del canto, los más placenteros son los que más se parecen a los sonidos vocales, los tonos que pueden sostenerse, aumentarse y disminuirse a voluntad”. Charles Burney “No hay música para instrumentos Que pueda compararse con la que Producen las voces de los hombres, si son buenas, Y si están bien escogidas y ordenadas”. William Byrd