Musicology and Sister Disciplines

The guitar lessons of Julio Sagreras are among the most universally used collections of guitar music and represent a milestone in didactic guitar literature. This book, which includes the first three volumes of the original six-volume series, is an ideal introduction to classical guitar playing as well as to Latin American guitar music. Text written in English and Spanish with French and German translations in an appendix at the back of the book.

En “Disonancias” e “Introducción a la sociología de la música” Adorno expone sus consideraciones sociológico-musicales sobre las que desarrolló su filosofía sobre la nueva música. En ambos escritos, el filósofo expone su visión sobre las transformaciones sufridas por la música ante la pujanza de la sociedad industrial y de masas, así como la posición que debe adoptar el músico ante tales cambios.

LECTURA SELECTIVA, a modo de PASEO específico e integral a través del enorme CONTENIDO MUSICAL de las Tragedias de SHAKESPEARE. Constituye una relación completa y ordenada de todos los párrafos o frases con referencias musicales, directas e indirectas, que figuran en cada una de las once tragedias de este monumento literario del siglo XVII. Un análisis estadístico final describe la trascendencia, importancia o simple presencia de canciones, bailes, instrumentos, sonidos, silencios, ecos..., en cada una de las obras y el conjunto global de ellas.

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...