Julio S Sagreras Guitar Lessons Book 1-3

The Guitar Lessons of Julio Sagreras are among the most universally used collections of guitar music and represent a milestone in guitar didactic literature.The original six lesson books, along with the book Advanced Technique, were an immediate success on their introduction and remain so today. This edition brings together under one cover Lesson Books Four, Five, and Six as well as Sagreras's Advanced Technique volume. the studies in each book are carefully fingered and graded. They are charming, melodious and extremely effective in the classroom. They are also an ideal introduction to...

Bachata—a guitar-based romantic music that debuted in Santo Domingo’s urban shantytowns in the 1960s—is today one of the hottest Latin genres. Still, fans and musicians have not forgotten the social stigma the genre carried for decades. This book interweaves bachata’s history and development with the socio-political context of Dominican identity. The author argues that its early disfavor resulted from the political climate of its origins and ties between class and race, and proposes that its ultimate acceptance as a symbol of Dominican identity arose from its innovations, the growth...

In this book, twenty-four scholars investigate the relationship between music and dictatorship in twentieth-century Europe and Latin America. The music is explored as a political phenomenon in fifteen nations under totalitarian regimes: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, and Hungary. Historical and aesthetical articles face both individual people (for instance, Chavez, Ligeti, Massarani or Villa-Lobos) as well whole generations of composers operating under dictatorship (for example, in the communist regimes of...

Exploración de algunas de las manifestaciones de la actual escena musical contemporánea como un poderoso instrumento en la formación de valores sociales e ideológicos.

Podría parecer que van a contracorriente del mundo musical actual y, sin embargo, existen infinidad de componentes místicos en la obra de compositores que expresan en su música sus sentimientos espirituales y religiosos. Y son muchos más de lo que comúnmente se cree. Me atrevo a afirmar que Messiaen, Gárdony, Pärt, P. Donostia, Alaine, Echeveste, Meschwitz y Gubaidulina, entre otros muchos, han escrito su Música para Dios. Ellos reclaman para sí mismos ese testimonio de Belleza, de Arte y de Fe. Y se han removido en mi memoria, más cercanos unos que otros a mi propia vida pero todos ...