El fascinante mundo del tabl / The fascinating world of Tabla

Choral Scores is an anthology of music exemplifying distinctive choral repertoire by the most noteworthy composers throughout the history of Western music. A companion volume to Denis Shrock's Choral Repertoire (Oxford 2009), it presents works of salient importance to the development of choral music in Western culture, representing the music of the composers, eras, and movements discussed most prominently in that volume. Including 132 compositions by 124 different composers, each presented unabridged and in full score, and spanning the entirety of Western music history, from the medieval era...

The product of a 14 year research project, this book contains over 350 studies to thoroughly train the right hand of classical guitarists in the use of all five fingers - adding the little finger to the present four finger technique. These studies build a five-finger technique in the playing of chords, arpeggios, tremolos and harmonics, beginning with the thumb and one-finger combinations and increasing in complexity to the thumb and four fingers. the studies are played over easy, yet interesting, left hand progressions up and down the fingerboard. Postlewate demonstrates how to develop your...

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...

El ensayo definitivo sobre el disco más importante de la historia del hip hop. En el año 1993 la cultura hip hop vivía sus años dorados en Estados Unidos. Dos décadas le había tomado al rap erigirse como indiscutible catalizador de la realidad política, social, económica y artística de los barrios marginados de la potencia mundial. A golpe de beat, sample y rima, la música protesta se alejaba de las guitarras. En ese contexto ve la luz el álbum Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), debut del clan neoyorquino que lideraría el resurgir de la costa este como estandarte del rap hardcore...