Quiero Tocar el Bajo

Quiero Tocar El Saxofn by Victor M. Barba is a great book for learning how to play the sax. If you want to play in school bands, jazz bands, or just for yourself, you need this book, because is simple and easy to understand, starting with just one note, all the way to playing nice melodies with the sax. Every song, every study, every example comes with the names of the notes under the music notation, as well as the graphics for the sax and the fingering, so you know where and how you should be playing. You'll find many original songs so you can develop you personal style, and a series of...

Year of Wonder introduces readers to one piece of music each day of the year, artfully selected from across genres, time periods, and composers. Burton-Hill offers short introductions to contextualize each piece, and makes the music come alive in modern and playful ways. A dazzling musical journey.

La musica del siglo XX suele suscitar, salvo en circulos especializados, un sentimiento de rechazo. Otto Karolyi propone en este libro un acercamiento a las principales caracteristicas de esta musica para poder comprenderla y disfrutarla mejor, analizando de manera sistematica los cambios de estetica que han ido produciendose a lo largo del siglo.

In his latest book, Greil Marcus, arguably the most influential music critic of all time, offers his most impassioned and intense essay yet. Steering clear of official history--encyclopedia entries, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions, classic success stories--Marcus brings to the forefront 10 essential songs that, for their influence and how they have resonated throughout the decades, have surpassed a milestone of pop music. This book includes brief biographies of the songs' writers and performers and captures the essence of each pop entry--everlasting yet at the same time fleeting....

Los melómanos son curiosos e impertinentes, quieren saberlo todo del género que aman y no descansan has - ta encontrar lo que buscan. Las crónicas del caribe se han hecho a través de las canciones y eso lo sabe bien Leonardo Padura quien le ha tomado el pulso a un género que ha sido discutido desde su propio naci - miento, a comienzos de los años 70. A través de la conversación con sus protagonistas, el autor nos rega - la un bellísimo retrato de las trayectorias de personajes fascinantes como Mario Bauzá, Cachao López, Papo Lucca, Juan Luis Guerra, Rubén Blades, Willie Colón,...