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Quiero Tocar El Saxofn by Victor M. Barba is a great book for learning how to play the sax. If you want to play in school bands, jazz bands, or just for yourself, you need this book, because is simple and easy to understand, starting with just one note, all the way to playing nice melodies with the sax. Every song, every study, every example comes with the names of the notes under the music notation, as well as the graphics for the sax and the fingering, so you know where and how you should be playing. You'll find many original songs so you can develop you personal style, and a series of...

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...

Practica guia desde la Colonia hasta el presente siglo de la evolucion musical en Norteamerica. Pasan la etapa de puritanismo y la proscripcion del baile, la influencia del coral religioso, el nacionalismo, el exotismo, la aparicion y aportacion del jazz y la musica negra, la Gebrauchsmusik, los purismos, el mesianismo, el colectivismo y el individualismo.

Bendita locura es la crónica de la música exquisita que se oculta bajo una piel amarga. Un viaje con muchos invitados: el surf, el hippismo, las adolescentes asesinas de Charles Manson, el Maharishi y docenas de notables habitantes de Los Ángeles, la ciudad de Hollywood y la falsedad. El grupo de rock protagonista de este libro es el más blanco y, al tiempo, el más negro. Los Beach Boys, geógrafos de California, una tierra que escenificaron como la Arcadia pop (camaradería, atardeceres eternos, gasolina barata y «dos chicos para cada chica»), han transitado, durante cuarenta años,...