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

Monografía exhaustiva sobre la música del periodo Andalusí, tanto desde la vertiente sociohistórica, orígenes y desarrollo, como desde sus aspectos técnicos: ritmos, melodía, armonía, formas musicales, literarias, y elementos estéticos, sin olvidar el baile y las diferentes escuelas. Abarcando un periodo aproximado desde los siglos previos a la invasión africana del siglo VII hasta el siglo XVII. En esta obra se ha tratado de cubrir un vacío, tanto editorial como de investigación, ya que son escasos los estudios sobre esta música donde se abarquen todos sus aspectos de forma...

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 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...

These easy-to-read, progressive exercises by Joanne Martin develop a student's reading skills one stage at a time, with many repetitions at each stage. I Can Read Music is designed as a first note-reading book for students of string instruments who have learned to play using an aural approach such as the Suzuki Method®, or for traditionally taught students who need extra note reading practice. Its presentation of new ideas is clear enough that it can be used daily at home by quite young children and their parents, with the teacher checking progress every week or two.