Historia insólita de la música clásica I

Prince fue un icono universal. Un creador que definió una era musical y transformó el aspecto de la cultura popular para siempre. No hay duda de que logró convertirse en uno de los más prodigiosos e influyentes artistas de todos los tiempos, y también quizá en el más misterioso. El 21 de abril de 2016, de manera inesperada, el mundo de la música perdió a su Príncipe. Este libro ofrece una perspectiva de la vida de Prince, sin tabús ni concesiones, como nunca se había hecho antes. Desde su traumática infancia, en la que buscó en la música de manera obsesiva una vía de escape a...

Bachata—a guitar-based romantic music that debuted in Santo Domingo’s urban shantytowns in the 1960s—is today one of the hottest Latin genres. Still, fans and musicians have not forgotten the social stigma the genre carried for decades. This book interweaves bachata’s history and development with the socio-political context of Dominican identity. The author argues that its early disfavor resulted from the political climate of its origins and ties between class and race, and proposes that its ultimate acceptance as a symbol of Dominican identity arose from its innovations, the growth...

Para los que añoran otros tiempos, para los que se deleitan con las voces que saben seguir vivas y para los que quieren asomarse por primera vez al universo del tango.

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...