Rebeldes del rock

In June 1964, Pink Floyd was born, completely changing the history of music. Time has made Pink Floyd a musical and cultural icon. This book looks at the life of one of the bands that sold the most records of all time, shedding light on its history, the soundtrack of several generations. Un 5 de junio de 1964 Syd Barrett pensó en unir los nombres de dos viejos músicos de blues para rebautizar a una banda en la que el núcleo duro estaba integrado por Roger Waters, Nick Mason y Rick Wright, junto al propio Syd, por supuesto. Había nacido Pink Floyd. Había nacido el mito. Con ellos cambió...

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.

In this book, twenty-four scholars investigate the relationship between music and dictatorship in twentieth-century Europe and Latin America. The music is explored as a political phenomenon in fifteen nations under totalitarian regimes: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, and Hungary. Historical and aesthetical articles face both individual people (for instance, Chavez, Ligeti, Massarani or Villa-Lobos) as well whole generations of composers operating under dictatorship (for example, in the communist regimes of...

BERMUDO alone of the many Spanish theorists and composers of the 16th century seems to have written anything specifically for New World use. All the more fitting is it, then, to have completed this monograph in a part of the Spanish Indies that was stirring every Andalusian's imagination during the days when he was first sending his books across the Atlantic. In every way his was a remarkable personality. He was the first to compose and publish any organ music in Spain. As if the publication of such music in staff-notation were not enough he also published the first Spanish keyboard piece in...

El presente libro aborda la producción y el consumo de música a lo largo del siglo xvii y principios del XVIII. El texto, que va más allá de una simple historia de los compositores, los estilos o los géneros musicales, explora asuntos relacionados con el mecenazgo, la educación, los rituales civiles y religiosos, el teatro y la cultura visual de la época. La autora se centra no sólo en la naturaleza de la música en el periodo barroco, sino también en los modos tan diferentes en que hombres y mujeres experimentaban la música en sus vidas cotidianas. Al tratar la música como...