A tono

El cimiento del tango es la vida política argentina. De todo el tango, no de una parte o de algunas composiciones. Por eso, no es uno sino muchos, discontinuos, de tramos diferentes. Nace con cinturas apretadas y lascivas en la década de 1880, con el Estado argentino moderno; se vuelve canción en 1916: sentencia moral, madre y esquina, con Yrigoyen y el pueblo en el Poder; hasta 1955 cuando Perón es derrocado, el peronismo sufre un exilio interior y Piazzolla inventa otro tango, más complejo, más abstracto. ¿Cómo no ver en el tango la historia argentina? Anverso y reverso de lo mismo, ...

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...

Includes Ecuadorian songs, melodies & stories with musical interludes, played on traditional & Orff instruments, sung in Spanish

Piano students of Latin American heritage often do not relate to the folk tunes that most methods use because the majority of those melodies do not flow with the rhythm of the Spanish language. This method is based on melodies original to the Mexican culture. These children's songs flow more naturally with the language, and in accord with the Kodály method of music education, give a better foundation for teaching basic musical elements in a Spanish language culture. Coupled with constant work on sight-reading, this new method is a valuable tool for native Spanish speakers in learning to play ...