Latin American Songs for the Piano

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...

La America latina y el Caribe han cambiado totalmente el panorama musical del siglo XX. America latina es el crisol donde bulle una de las musicas populares mas ricas del mundo: no solo el tango argentino, nacido en los bajos fondos de Buenos Aires; la samba, autentico simbolo de Brasil; el reggae jamaicano de envolventes ritmos; sino tambien el biguine, el calipso, la bossa nova y la salsa.Sus representantes se llaman Carlos Gardel, Harry Belafonte, Celia Cruz, Bob Marley... Nacida del sincretismo entre ritmos africanos, europeos y amerindios, la musica latinoamericana sigue siendo una...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart es la expresión, no de una personalidad aislada, sino de un ambiente. Es el ejemplo de la expresión natural, la manifestación del espíritu, espontánea y sin el menor rebuscamiento o alteración. No hay problema revolucionario en la obra de Mozart. La rebeldía de Beethoven, el erotismo de Wagner, la religiosidad de Juan Sebastián Bach, la caracterología de Ricardo Strauss, la languidez romántica de Chopin, la filosofía dubitativa de Schumann, contrastan con la fluidez del pensamiento y de la emoción de Mozart, todos ellos llevan el dolor en el parto, el...

The guitar lessons of Julio Sagreras are among the most universally used collections of guitar music and represent a milestone in didactic guitar literature. This book, which includes the first three volumes of the original six-volume series, is an ideal introduction to classical guitar playing as well as to Latin American guitar music. Text written in English and Spanish with French and German translations in an appendix at the back of the book.