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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...

The band Led Zeppelin was desirable, dark, and dangerous, and this perceptive reference answers questions about their many supposed habits, such as Did they really officiate black masses in their dressing room? Did they flirt with magic? and Did they practice ritual cannabalism? La banda Led Zeppelin era apetecible, oscura y peligrosa, y esta referencia perceptiva contesta preguntas sobre sus costumbres supuestas, como ¿De veras oficiaban misas negras en los camerinos? ¿Habían coqueteado con la magia? y ¿Practicaban el canibalismo ritual?

Una guía exhaustiva de la genial trayectoria de uno de los artistas más completos de nuestro tiempo y Premio Nobel de Literatura 2016. Es, con toda seguridad, una de las figuras más influyentes de la música en el siglo XX. "La gran bestia del rock and roll" como dijo Chuck Berry de él. Bob Dylan es un artista venerado y cuestionado que forma parte ya del imaginario cultural universal. A partir de la recuperación de la música folk supo crear un estilo propio e inconfundible con letras cargadas de simbolismo y reivindicaciones, lo que le convirtió en un referente para distintas...

There is a woman who appears and disappears in the life of this almost 60-year-old musician, like an angel or demon, and removes everything. So much so that this confessional story begins that has the intensity with which a stranger is spoken to a stranger in a bar. Deeply traversed by music, history covers the character's relationship with alcohol, with women, with children, with the passage of time, but also with his artistic decisions and the role of his generation in culture and society. The songs are entangled in the discourse as in life, that echo in the wood that becomes lyrics and...