Cómo ser Mala

This book approaches bongo playing in a very user-friendly way. It is a must for all students who wish to learn the basic styles, patterns, and techniques from world-renowned artist/teacher Richie Gajate-Garcia. This package contains two CDs with Richie performing all the exercises and includes play-along tracks to practice with. Styles include Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, pop/rock, funk, and R&B, along with a section on school jazz band use. This is a complete study of the bongo drum and should be fun for all who use it. Also includes an in-depth study of all basic hand percussion...

"Brief study describes traditional instruments of indigenous and creole derivation; includes drawings, pictures, and photographs"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Con base en su experiencia como profesor de música y enfocándose en el uso de las percusiones, a través de esta obra el autor invita a dejar atrás atavismos y miedos para liberar el cuerpo y la mente, y muestra cómo hacerlo mediante reflexiones, ejercicios prácticos y juegos de improvisación musical. Con un lenguaje fresco, este manual es una obra de consulta amena y valiosa tanto para profesores como estudiantes de música, así como para cualquier persona interesada en recuperar su capacidad para improvisar y crear. (ITESO)

Recognized as the most significant composer from New Spain in the early eighteenth century, Manuel de Sumaya (ca. 1678–1755) oversaw musical activity at Mexico City Cathedral during a time of stylistic change. Sumaya, who was locally born and ordained as a priest, wrote music that mixes the counterpoint and rhythmic vigor of seventeenth-century Hispanic music with more modern Italianate gestures prescient of international taste in the eighteenth century. This edition of all thirty-four villancicos with music by Sumaya conserved in the Estrada Collection at Mexico City Cathedral reveals the...