Otros carnavales

"Las vidas y obras de nuestras cantantes, compositoras guaracheras o vedettes a partir de sus testimonios"--Cover.

La música suele definirse como arte para el oído, como lenguaje del corazón, como sentimiento, como juego sonoro o como ciencia compositiva. Sin embargo, la música también emite mensajes. Transporta experiencias espirituales, ideas literarias, religiosas, filosóficas, sociales y políticas. Transmite significados que deben descodificarse. Existen obras que contienen mensajes públicos y que deben entenderse como llamada a la humanidad; otras contienen mensajes «privados». Numerosos compositores ocultan en sus obras contenidos que pueden descifrarse con la ayuda de diversos métodos....

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...

You Can Teach Yourself Piano is a revolutionary concept in piano instruction. No other method comes close to matching this book's scope in teaching not only basic music reading skills, but also the essential technique and theory for playing in all contemporary keyboard styles. Central to the philosophy of the You Can Teach Yourself series, this beginner's book is written to give the serious adult student a solid foundation while studying on their own without the advantage of having a private teacher; it will show you all you need to know to get an authoritative start on the instrument,...