Pet Shop Boys, literalmente

Versos tomados de canciones chilenas inspiran, presentan e impulsan varios pasajes de este libro, compuesto por textos que demuestran que incluso miradas de especialidad y origen distantes entre sí pueden tener una convincente referencia común a un flujo de poesía cantada y a reflexiones con buen ritmo, esencial a nuestra cultura popular. Ese cruce entre pensamiento y canción, entre la elaboración propia y la síntesis ajena, no es el único estímulo en la lectura, pero de todos modos resulta elocuente del desprejuicio y fuerza que guía al libro completo. Hay hondura y hay provocación ...

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 ...

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...

Práctica y completa introducción a las principales formas musicales, que incluye partituras completas o reducciones de cada una de las piezas analizadas, así como dos discos compactos con grabaciones de las mismas.