Orpheus in musica. Estudis sobre la tradició clàssica en la música occidental

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...

In 2008, Dr. Eben Alexander's brain was severely damaged by a devastating case of bacterial meningitis, and he fell into a weeklong coma. During those 7 days in coma, he was plunged into the deepest realms of consciousness and came to understand profound truths about the universe we inhabit.

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...

La actualidad, en alianza con la fundamentación teórica, es el atractivo más inmediato de Música popular bailable cubana. Letras y juicios de valor (siglos XVIII-XX) de Liliana Casanella Cué. Fruto de un estudio que recorre, en la prensa y en el entorno académico, el comportamiento histórico de la crítica a esa manifestación cultural, el libro desmitifica criterios impuestos en obediencia a prejuicios sociales (velados o abiertos) decididos por el poder –donde a lo racial corresponde la primera instancia–, y que, paradójicamente, han continuado imponiéndose, como si los sucesos ...