Cantar y animar con canciones

Vladimir Jankélévitch argues that composer Franz Liszt was a leading champion of musical modernity who knew how to express the new aesthetic change of direction in 19th-century European music better than anyone, save Frédéric Chopin. This new style was the opposite of the abstract universality of the symphony and the totalitarianism of the Viennese conservatory. With the reinforcement of national and even provincial rights, the so-called savagery of rhapsody finally turned its back to solemn music, thus beginning the revolution of humility. Liszt gave voice to the land, much as Victor...

El autor traza un recorrido por los nuevos géneros que terminaron desplazando a la llamada música clásica en el consumo ilustrado. Un paisaje que se dibuja a partir del desarrollo de lenguajes como los del tango, el jazz, el rock progresivo de fines de los sesenta y comienzos de la década siguiente, la bossa nova y la música popular brasileña, las estilizaciones de los folklores y la canción política. Así, Los Vétales, Miles Davis, Hill Evans, Astor Piazzolla, King Crimson, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Carlos Gardel, Caetano Veloso, Duke Ellington, Violeta Parra, Chico Buarque, Keith...

Professor Snow's auspicious debut in musicology came in 1958 as the author of the chapter on Old Roman chant in Willi Apel's Gregorian Chant. He completed his doctorate at the University of Illinois in 1968, and his major faculty appointments have been at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Illinois, and University of Texas. His publications range from the medieval era to the baroque, most of them dealing with sacred music in Spain, Portugal, the Hispanic New World, and eastern Europe. Encomium Musicae will present over 40 articles by scholars from seven different countries, most of...

Para los que añoran otros tiempos, para los que se deleitan con las voces que saben seguir vivas y para los que quieren asomarse por primera vez al universo del tango.