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En “Disonancias” e “Introducción a la sociología de la música” Adorno expone sus consideraciones sociológico-musicales sobre las que desarrolló su filosofía sobre la nueva música. En ambos escritos, el filósofo expone su visión sobre las transformaciones sufridas por la música ante la pujanza de la sociedad industrial y de masas, así como la posición que debe adoptar el músico ante tales cambios.

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.

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.

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...