Practical Applications

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...

Las mejores historias de The Beatles. El gran experto en The Beatles tiene nombre propio: Manolo Bellón. En el 2002 Bellón publicó este libro, que recoge una de las historias más completas sobre este cuarteto que se hayan escrito antes en cualquier idioma. Ahora, cuando se cumplen los 51 años del último concierto que dieron The Beatles (29 de agosto de 1966), Manolo vuelve sobre las líneas escritas y presenta una edición totalmente revisada, corregida y sobre todo aumentada: cada detalle, presentación, problema, canción o dato relevante de Lennon y sus amigos se recoge en este...

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...

El mar de los deseos. El Caribe afroandaluz, historia y contrapunto constituye un estudio histórico sobre la formas musicales originadas en el Caribe. Analiza las condiciones históricas, así como los diferentes mestizajes que dieron origen a lo que el autor denomina un “cancionero” de la época colonial, que incluye culturas como la africana, española e iberoamericana.