El libro de las gaitas largas.

All seven volumes of Mel Bay's original, internationally acclaimed Modern Guitar Method series are included in this single, huge master compilation. This edition also includes additional outstanding plectrum guitar solo arrangements not found in the original volumes. As Mr. Bay perceived the need for a guitar method that would effectively teach beginning guitarists to read music, this method is intentionally written in standard notation only. Although fingerstyle technique, this book is tailored specifically for the plectrum-style player, beginner through advanced levels.

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...

El órgano Flight & Son de la Catedral de Santiago es, sin duda uno de los más valiosos e importantes instrumentos musicales de Chile. Especialmente diseñado en Inglaterra e inaugurado en la Semana Santa de 1850, hoy se conserva casi intacto, heredero de una tradición que prácticamente ha desaparecido en todo el mundo. Este libro explora su historia, tomándolo como un objeto simbólico para adentrarse en los cambios de la música y la cultura en el Santiago de Chile de mediados del siglo XIX, época en que el país experimentaba el proceso de tránsito hacia una nación republicana. El...

Completa antología de la música del período comprendido entre la Plena Edad Media y mediados del siglo XV, con setenta y una partituras, en su mayoría inéditas, que van del canto gregoriano a Guillaume de Machaut.