Books of: History of Music

1938 es un año crucial para Austria y España: el 13 de marzo se produce el Anschluss, la anexión de Austria al III Reich alemán, con lo que desaparece el estado austriaco y en la sociedad se imponen las fuerzas ...

Engaging, clear and informative, this is the story of western music - of its great composers, its performers and listeners, and of the ever changing ideas of what music is and what it is for. Paul Griffiths shows how music ...

The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America during the five centuries from the first contacts between Europeans and the native peoples of the Americas in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth ...

This means spending a whole day shopping, sightseeingn and getting accustomed to the lifestyle in the Italian metropolis. Nowhere else do culture and lifestyle match as much as in Rome. From the Vatican to the Coliseum, from the Spanish Stairs ...

This is a revised second edition of Dr. Steblin's important work on key characteristics, first published in 1983 by UMI Research Press and re-issued by the University of Rochester Press in 1996. The revision has been limited to a thorough ...

The Eighth Edition of A History of Western Music is a vivid, accessible, and richly contextual view of music in Western culture. Building on his monumental revision of the Seventh Edition, Peter Burkholder has refined an inspired narrative for a ...

A Venetian Concert: The majestic contours of the famous mansions of the late Italian Renaissance rise above the serene Venetian hillscape, like fine echoes of the grandeur and elegance which prevailed in a blossoming age of cultural enlightenment. They remind ...

El interés despertado por los nuevos modelos de la interpretación histórica musical ha hecho que el problema de la afinación de los instrumentos adquiera una importancia relevante. Es sabido que con las consonancias justas no puede establecerse un sistema unificado ...

Emilio Casares Rodicio es una de las figuras más relevantes de la musicología en España. Creador de la primera especialidad de Musicología en nuestro país, ha simultaneado una intensa actividad académica en los ámbitos de la investigación y la docencia ...

Este libro es un estudo concienzudo de las obras de ocho compositores españoles de reconocido prestigio: Luis de Pablo, Carmelo Bernaola, Antón García Abril, Tomás Marco, Joan Guinjoan, Josep Soler, Ramón Barce y Cristóbal Halffter. Dilatada bibliografía y detallado índice ...