Historia del Jazz

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...

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...

La música es un estímulo multimodal que transmite al cerebro información auditiva, motora y visual, e induce emociones. Dispone de redes específicas para su procesamiento, no exclusivas, sino compartidas con numerosas funciones que implican a todo el encéfalo. El resultado de este complejo proceso, la música, es capaz de modificar nuestros ritmos fisiológicos, de alterar nuestro estado emocional, de cambiar nuestra actitud mental e incluso de aportar paz y armonía a nuestro espíritu. Esta obra, apropiada para una introducción a la musicoterapia, expone cuáles son sus fundamentos...

La musica del siglo XX suele suscitar, salvo en circulos especializados, un sentimiento de rechazo. Otto Karolyi propone en este libro un acercamiento a las principales caracteristicas de esta musica para poder comprenderla y disfrutarla mejor, analizando de manera sistematica los cambios de estetica que han ido produciendose a lo largo del siglo.