El Charango

"A work ... founded on the system of Zarlino; indeed there is some reason to believe that it is a mere redaction of a work with the same title which Zarlino speaks of as having completed in ms., but which has totally disappeared." -Grove, Dict. of music.

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...

Desde los inicios de la ópera en las diversas cortes del norte de Italia hasta su expansión por Europa y más allá, este libro explora el mundo de los teatros de ópera y los empresarios operísticos, de monarcas y negociantes, de artistas y públicos. En su Grand Tour operístico, el autor nos traslada a la Mantua y a la Florencia del Renacimiento, al Londres de Händel, al París de Luis XIV y a la Viena del emperador José II y Mozart. Cuando en el siglo XIX la ópera deja de ser monopolio europeo, Daniel Snowman sigue los pasos del libretista de Mozart hasta Nueva York, y nos lleva...

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...